The Walk with Pride (WWP) project will be in attendance at this year's Gay-Fest in Bucharest. Images from Gay-Fest will be included in the WWP's international photo collection, which will showcase a year of pride parades from around the globe.
The WWP project's aspiration is to use photography to promote international gay rights and visibility. While imagery often celebrates the colorful atmosphere of parades, the project also displays the diversity of LGBT communities.
Photo galleries showing past parades, including the Taipei Manila , Sydney ,and Baltic Pride festivals are already available on the project's website.
After attending the Taipei Pride March, photographer Charles Meacham and blogger/writer Sarah Baxter developed Walk with Pride as a means of documenting similar world gay pride events. Charles Meacham has already completed several other culture-related photography projects, which has led to over 20 international photography awards, including those from National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, and PDN magazines.
While their foremost aim with the project is to encourage pride in diversity, they also hope to generate a greater concern by those outside the gay community regarding the subject of equal rights.
As Meacham explains, "Gay rights, like all human rights, is a topic that we both sincerely and enthusiastically support, so we wanted to do something to support the movement, and help people see it in this light."
For those interested in following the WWP's progress, visit http://www.walkwithpridenow.com orhttp://wwpproject.wordpress.com.
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