It is the culmination of Pride week which has been running since last Saturday.

BBC: Thousands at Belfast Gay Pride parade

The city's annual summer festivals are not limited solely to the Bare Buns Run, and include Pride Week (early August), western Canada's largest gay pride parade, MusicFest Vancouver (two weeks early August), an international music festival that hosts a free city-centre outdoor stage, and the Bard on the Beach festival (June-September), which sees the work of Shakespeare performed beside the water in a cheerful series of red-and-white circus tents.

BBC: Vancouver: Land of the lotus-eaters

This week has dented their pride but not their resolve.

BBC: Cyprus bank crisis: defiance and fear in Nicosia

The focus of the three-week trial had hinged on whether Mr. Pride, who has a lengthy criminal record, fired a 9mm handgun with the intent to murder a police officer, a crime that carries a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

WSJ: Officer's Murder Accidental, Jury Finds

"The nation's largest land agency ought to be induced to have a sense of pride, " Babbitt told a audience at the University of Denver Law School last week.

CNN: Nature - Babbitt pushes land protection initiative

More folks are feeling the sense of pride and satisfaction that comes with a hard-earned and well-deserved paycheck at the end of a long week of work.

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