personally I'm tired of the silly parades and flaunting... What one does in their bedrooms is their business, I don't need to know about it..
It is possible to ignore them. Ive never been to one. For me its almost as if they dont exist. That goes for parades in general. I tend to find them boring and if I happen to be trying to go somewhere at the time, inconvenient. When William and Kate were here it took me 45 minutes to get a few blocks because of all the damn people gathered around them downtown. Not a parade, but same sort of thing.
In some ways more freedom than Canada..
Funny, you say this then one of the things you cite are limiting other people's freedom of expression as one of the things you admire.
Hahaha Russia has freedom, who's paper have you been reading, the ones from Russia??
Compared to what they had when the Soviet Union existed, yes. Far from perfect but its a definite improvement.