Masses of people have marched through Istanbul to support gay rights. The pride parade has been billed as the Muslim World's largest, this time taking a special significance after one year of anti-government protests. Turkey's LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, bi-sexual and transgender) community turned out in droves on Istanbul's main pedestrian street Istiklal Avenue, for this year's gay pride parade. Participants waved rainbow flags and carried signs calling for an end to homophobia in the Muslim country, "Love knows no gender". "another kind of family is possible and "stop homophobia" some of the signs read. Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey. However, homophobia firmly remains in place among Mid Eastern Muslim country's right-path followers. In 2010, prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdagon's minster for family and women Selma Aliya called it a "disease" that " needs to be treated".
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