OCT 98

Reports, pictures, memories...

Did you forget to bring your camera to the numerous events of the Pink Village Pride Festival 98? Don't worry, several participants did, and from this page you can download their memories. In case you've never visited AW; The quality of these pictures was reduced in order to have small files - this quality can not be compared to the rezolution on what you'll see if you visit AW. Thanx to the photographers, and of course to all of you who took part in the various events. It was a wonderful weekend, and if you missed it - make sure you'll be there when we celebrate our Pride in 1999! You can still visit Pride Park or the other locations in Pink Village where the many events took place October 17-18th, 1998. Official opening, Pride Park On Saturday 17th of October, at 12:00 vrt, the PV Pride Festival 98 was officially opened by Pink Village's mayor Bille. Idealist, Pride Committee member, asked for a minute of silence to honor the memory of Matthew Shepard, who were murdered because of being gay. "The world is far from accepting us, and we all need to do our part ...and you all are :)", she said. Let's hope that by bringing the Pride tradition to the virtual reality, we can help on doing just that. After announcing the events of the Pride's first day, there was a photo section under the rainbow flag. Pictures by Albanach and Bille: Official opening one two Minute of silence one two three Information one Under the rainbow one two Community booths During the Pride, several organisations, web sources and communities of AW were presented in the section of community booths. The AW Community booth was served, and so was the booth presenting PV Women's Center. IALGPC (Interpride) had created a special webpage for their booth. Pictures by Bille: Booths one two three four five six seven Interactive Pride Quilt "To D&M...my thoughts are always with you", "In Memory of my friend Oscar, who fought a great battle and whose spirit lives on", "You are the wind beneath my wings, in loving memory, to Kelly" are only a few of the greetings that can be read by pointing (cursor arrow) at the Interactive Pride Quilt. Cyber greetings in the memory of dear friends that we still love so much. Pictures by Bille: Interactive Pride Quilt one two three four Alien Date Party This dating game with participants from outer space turned out to be a great show, lasting for more than one hour. Neither the participants nor the crowd watching them, really knew who were hiding in those alian costumes. The questions and answers, and even comments from the audience, caused a great amount of LOL, ROFL, LOLORF, FOLRFOL - or whatever...:) Click here to read highlights from the log and see the pictures. And find out who AlienZ got a date with - GAYlien or ZaZing... The Parade Arranging a Pride Parade in a virtual environment, where the participants are not able to carry any signs, or to sit in decorated cars, turned out to be quite a challenge. Along the route there were several sound effects, and signs requesting activities, such as shouting "Go! Go! Go!" or clap hands etc. Other surprises were planned, but were not used. 7 ppl marched in the very first VR Pride Parade which went on for about one hour. The group started at the N/W Corner Square, and arrived at Pride Park about one hour later (map). A few of the participants were complaining about hurting feet, bad shoes, high heels etc, but they all completed - bravo:) Pictures by Bille: Pink Village Pride Parade one two three four five six seven eight Official closing Motives from Pride Park at the stage where prizes were announced; Chilkoot for Alien Date Party, and Dthknight for Pride Words Hunt - both won a one year AW citizenship. Three of the committee members plus the two prize winners were called to stage for photo session... Afterwards most of the attendees climbed the roof above the stage. Pictures by LionheartNL and Bille: On the stage: one two three four Climbing the roof: one two Vicars and Tarts Party The Pride closed with the Vicars And Tarts party, and a bunch of Tanyas and a few Harolds arrived Pink Parade nightclub. Dthknight announced a "guess my number" contest, to decide to whom he should give the AW citizenship he won for solving the Pride Words Hunt. The number contest was won by Doffen. When only a couple guest were left, Simon T's connection froze for quite a while, and he was built in on the dance floor, quite ammusing for the guests, and also Simon L had to LOL when he woke up:) Pictures by Bille, Lucrezia Borgia and LionheartNL: In the bar: one two three Group photos: one two three What did they do with a frozen Simon T: one