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Sir Ian McKellan and Mayor Ken Livingstone joined the crowds during London's gay pride parade (the last and biggest stop of EuroPride 2006) — but we know you're more interested in seeing the floats, the signs, and of course, the mens. While this year's attendance of 40,000 didn't meant organizers' expections of 500,000 – a huge number expected because the event didn't conflict with the World Cup; last year's coincidided with the Live 8 concert but still drew 250,000 – the event has been labeled a success: no major brawls between the crowds and police, and protestors were all but ignored.

Gay Pride comes to London [Reuters]

Ask and ye shall receive! Toronto blogger Donald provided us with some great photos from Saturday's Dyke March, which we had hoped to attend, but ended up missing. It looks pretty much like we expected it to be: naked boobs everywhere. See them all after the jump.

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It was a perfect day on Sunday for Toronto Pride, which, with an estimated 1.2 million attendees, was the largest Pride celebration in Canada and one of the largest in North America. The parade down Yonge St. had a nice mix of colorful queens, community groups, shirtless guys of all shapes and sizes, and lots of house and dance hall beats. And let's not forget the Super Soakers. We managed to protect our camera from the water gun toters long enough to snap some photos of the parade, which you can check out after the jump.

We also wandered around the festival along Church St. (the Toronto Gay Village) and saw some interesting characters, including some gay mounties. We're sorry we missed the Dyke Parade on Saturday, but we were still nursing a hangover from Friday night. If anybody has photos, please send them in!

Our day ended at Big Primpin's "Get Busted" party at the Courthouse, where we danced away every last drop of energy that hadn't been sapped by sun, beer gardens, and crazy queens.

Hundreds of thousands turn out for Toronto's Pride Parade [CBC]

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• Marc Jacobs seems to be back with rent-a-boyfriend Jason Preston, at least for now. The twosome were spotted at Therapy in New York with, of all people, porn star maestro Michael Lucas. [Page Six]

• When it comes to celebs coming out of the closet, Jake Gyllenhaal and Vin Diesel are, not surprisingly, at the top of the list of gambling odds. [Gambling 911]

• Jennifer Lopez made good on rumors she'd be the surprise guest at Dance On The Pier. [Perez Hilton]

Just because you didn't see your city here doesn't mean you're not on our radar. But we can't have all the fun in covering gay pride around the world, can we? Some selected links to our Web friends who are delivering plenty of visuals.

• Seattle: Queer Beacon

• Atlanta: extraspecial/Flickr

• San Diego: Flickr

• San Francisco: Searching for Mr. Chess

• Paris: Oh La La Paris

Did we miss your city? Clue us in on where we can find coverage in the comments!

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Much love to Queerty's spankalicious reader Art for sending in photos from Rhode Island's gay pride event!

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Thanks to Queerty all-star Michael, who sent in the photos in the above clip from Detroit's gay pride. Motor City queers out too, ya'll.

If there was ever an unofficial grand marshall of New York City's Gay Pride Parade this year, it was Kevin Aviance. New York's storied drag queen – gay bashed earlier this month – made a grand public appearance atop HX magazine's float, showing no signs of victim — just pride.

If ever there were a more appropriate time to use this tired cliche, it's today — while reporting on the unfortunate thunderstorms that brought Atlanta's Gay Pride Parade to an early end. Officials called off the event midway through the afternoon when the weather turned for the worse, marking the second time in three years the parade got axed before the grand finale of Starlight Cabaret, a giant drag show. (Waterproof mascara only goes so far.) But Sunday's main event wasn't the only rained out celebration.

This year's festival was plagued by storms on all three days. The most serious event occurred on Friday, when strong winds caused Pride's main stage to collapse shortly after the opening ceremonies. Pride officials cancelled the evening's performers and all other activities in Piedmont Park, with the exception of the Pride Prom, an event for gay youth held in Magnolia Hall, a building within the park.

The Pride marketplace and the event's second stage opened as scheduled on Saturday morning. A smaller stage erected to replace the main stage resumed performances late Saturday afternoon.

But Saturday night's entertainment was cut short due to thunderstorms before the final act, which was scheduled to be lesbian songwriter Melissa Ferrick.

Sunday's parade stepped off from the Civic Center MARTA stage under darkening skies just after 1 p.m. The storm clouds burst around 2:20 p.m., and parade participants and spectators were periodically drenched throughout the two-hour procession by heavy rains.

The crowd responded to each crash of thunder with loud applause. The thunderstorms were almost perfectly synchronized with the parade passing by the most crowded part of the route near 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue.

Gay Pride events canceled after parade [Southern Voice]

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Thanks to Queerty cage slave Richard, who sent in the above footage from Columbus, Ohio's gay pride parade. After the jump, check out a few more videos (and photos) from the Midwest celebrations!

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It's been one hell of a month celebrating gay pride, whether it was this weekend here in New York, across the country in L.A., or anywhere in between. We'll be coming at you all day with gay pride photo and video updates all submitted by your fellow Queerty readers. Up first is our own account of New York City's gay pride parade, which was the coolest (when it came to temperature) we'd ever been to. Our favorite marching troop all afternoon: the gay men and women of the NYPD and FDNY.

After the jump, a photo montage with pictures submitted by Queerty love child "Boss Tweed" and other contributors.

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While we'll likely be out in full force here in New York to help celebrate Gay Pride, we want you, our faithful readers, to help us in covering it! We want your photos and video clips – whether delivered via Flickr, YouTube, or email – of your gay pride experience, whether it's in New York or elsewhere.

What do you get in return? Free T-shirts, of course! And not just any T-shirt, but one of those much sought after "gay? fine my me" tees from our friends at FineByMe.org, an equal rights advocacy group helping gay men and women come out and be proud of their identity. They retail for $20 (plus shipping), so just think of the savings!

We'll randomly select among all submissions and distrbute as many tees as we've got (about 10 or so).

When submitting, please include your name and mailing address, as well as your size and color preference. (We've got small, medium, and large in black, blue, green, and, of course, orange.) Send away to holla@queerty.com.