Lutheran pastors kick off Scandinavia’s biggest Gay Pride bash

Published: August 5, 2007, 9:52 pm

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Scandinavia’s biggest gay pride event drew about 60,000 marchers and some 500,000 spectators, Anders Wallner, the spokesman for the organisers told AFP. The parade was kicked off by some 30 pastors from the Church of Sweden — the country’s main church — which earlier said it also wanted to “break the masses’ big silence” regarding gays, bisexuals and transexuals. “The Church of Sweden is a church open to everyone,” Uppsala pastor Ann-Katrin Bosbach explained. Sweden, already a pioneer in giving same-sex couples the right to adopt children, looks set to allow gays to marry in the Lutheran Church by introducing a new marriage law in January 2008. If the so-called “gender neutral” marriage legislation is adopted, Sweden would become the first in the world to allow gays to marry within a major church. Participants danced to the pulsating beats of techno, pop and electro sounds, while highlighting the

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