Police only gave the go-ahead for the Love Parade on Wednesday, following a series of meetings with the organisers and city councillors.

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The Love Parade was part of the Ruhr's post-industrial coming-out party.

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The Love Parade added a jolt of Dionysian exuberance.

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Billed as the biggest free party ever held in the UK, the Love Parade attracted some of the world's top DJs, including Judge Jules, Seb Fontaine, Paul Van Dyk and Pete Tong.

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This year over 500, 000 people flocked to take part in Europe's biggest homosexual spectacle, the Christopher Street Day Parade not to be confused with the city's yearly and mainly heterosexual Love Parade and its rivals, the Fuck Parade and the Erotica Carnival.

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More Ultra Smart love was on parade for us today and it came in the form of the glorious SGH-F700 from Samsung.

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The speaker said she hopes the parade organizers will change the policy soon, especially because she would love to march with her father, who is 86 years old.

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