HAPPY PRIDE EVERYONE!!!
Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall!
How are you celebrating???
I am so jealous JAG!
I'm sure you'd be welcome too, SNAFU. Just as long as you wear the proper footwear.
OH! I'll have to polish up on my "NOT!" jokes.
Tap shoes?
Working
Going to the Parade in NYC. Should be fun.
Online apartment hunting with my better half. Better than 20 parades.
Invite?!
Directions?!
HELLOOOOOOO!
Work and rehearsal. At least the rehearsal is fun.
I rehearsed all morning.
Now I'm raw.
Well, for those of you watching the 40th Annual NYC Gay Pride March down 5th Avenue into the Village keep your eyes open for...
The New York City Gay Mens Chorus like youve NEVER seen them before!!!
120+ marchers in Carnivale color shirts (and the pretty boys shirtless!), 16-piece marching band with a drum-major and baton, mardi-gras beads, 30th Anniversary flyers, a 6-person color-guard flag squad (with yours-truly in the lead!), and our very-sequined Queen Millie Shayntwrite wearing a 10x10-foot gown/headdress with her Butch Alan... SINGING AND MARCHING to 4 insanely energetic/dance mix songs you wont be able to keep yourself from dancing!!! Yell out when you see us coming!!!
I'll be out there cheering you on! Looks as if the weather is going to be coopertive this year.
Can't sit back and watch from the side. Pride is Power and Power is Pride! Got to have Pride!
Pride 2009
from Joe.My.God, one of the best-written pieces ever on "Why I March":
Joe.My.God: Watching The Defectives
Seeing the final performance of A:OC, then dinner and probably going back to my dates apartment. Pretty gay, right?
Pal-- That post on why we march was incredible.
Isn't a great column? I love JoeMyGod's short version of Gay Pride:
"They wish we were invisible. We're not. Let's dance."
Frank Rich's op-ed on Stonewall and the current state of gay rights:
Frank Rich's op-ed
Being proud can be exhausting!
For Lesbians, maybe...
New York City. The Pier Dance.
Terrific parade .... four hours long!
After about two hours, I decided that accepting any more of the free condoms would really be an act of excessive optimism.
Just got home after 4 hours of marching in the parade (anyone see the carnivale-style NYC Gay Mens Chorus?)
Then bar-tending the Pier Dance...
and ending the evening at Greenhouse!
AMAZING BOMBASITIC EXHAUSTING PRIDE 2009
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