by Rex Wockner
International News Briefs
Some 4,000 people marched in Helsinki, Finland, June 28 – the city's biggest Pride parade to date.
Organizers gave an award to bisexual author Sofi Oksanen for her activism on behalf of GLBT people in the neighboring Baltic nations (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Russia.
Oksanen is the nation's most popular contemporary author. Her 2008 novel Purge has sold more copies than any other book in recent memory.