Not a fan of Pride Parade but my boyfriend is and World Pride is coming up.. Help?

[catlover]

First of all i want to thank everyone who replied, i never thought i would get this many answers in such a short time! Thanks so much!
Pix - We have had several talks about this, I can't get it though his head that i don't like crowds. He also knows that its not him but he just dosnt understand why i cant do this for him and be with him. Also those were funny!
Geminize - For me to go to Toronto by myself i would find kind of a bore, because i would be there alone for most of the days, so if i was to do anything it would just be me (not that i mind that, but not all the time) and me being me I would be to scared to go out and do anything because i have never been there and would feel extremely uneasy going places i don't know, it was a great suggestion but since i never have been there or to far out of my own town it would be hard.
Dreamer - He has several friends from Toronto and wants me to meet them all and wants to hang out with them for a while since he dosnt see them very often. So me asking him to not see them or only see them for a short while would feel like I am being controlling and even i would feel guilty for doing that because i know thats what he wants to do.
Yoyoyo148 - I have talked to him about it but either he dosnt understand it, he dosnt care, or he's trying to force me into it to try to change me. Im not sure which it is sadly.
Matty7 - EXACTLY same question i keep asking myself. If he knows it makes me uncomfortable why does he ask me to. Whats even funnier is that he wants me to go to pride and be with him, but in normal day time activities such as shopping or walking around town he never holds my hand, I all ways have to reach for it. I don't know if he's embarrassed, or worried what someones gonna say or what. but it seems kind of hippocratical, even tho he says theres nothing wrong and "always wants to hold my hand"
Im not one for flaunting it or going around screaming I'm gay, but i want to hold my boyfriends hand and i don't care what other people think about it.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Me I'm more of an introvert and like to by by myself or with him. My boyfriend knows this and has tried to accommodate me, even though i did not go to last years pride in our own city and he was very disappointed. I live in Canada, Nova Scotia to be exact, and world pride is coming up this summer in Toronto, Canada.

Wow - and you are in a relationship with him because????

He accommodated you in the past, now its time to accommodate him.

Look, the day is coming when you will be utterly, painfully alone and you will look back on this day and see that you should have spent more time with a person you cared about than spending that time alone.

This isn't prophecy - this is statistics. Statistically you are doomed to be alone, utterly, painfully complete alone and for such a length of time that you will regret deeply not having spent 24/7 with your partner when you had one.

[catlover]

Bowyn Aerrow - I have accommodated him as well. I have been to several family functions (his family is huge) as well as parties and social events with his friends. All of which make me EXTREAMLY uncomfortable and basically sick feeling. Even knowing this he still asks me to go. If I knew something upset him that much that I was asking him to do, I wouldn't be asking, I would give him the option to come but tell him that it would be okay to not come if he was going to be uncomfortable.