I think it would be cool if left a post up of what Pride events we are attending if any.

Personally.

I'll be marching with the LA boys of Leather and volunteering at Long Beach Pride May 21-22 and Los Angeles Pride June 11-22.

I'll be on the float and working the booth for the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Times for San Diego Pride. July 30-31

I think I'm going to Palm Springs Pride November 5-6.

and not techinally a pride event I'll be at IML in Chicago May 21-31st

http://www.capride.org/
[Edited 5/8/05 22:27pm]

YES! FINALLY!! I can't WAIT! And my birthday is right in the middle of Pride season.

I went to my first pride last year in St Louis


I'm gonna try to go to the one in Madison or Milwaukee this year

magsynth is already there!

Nikster said:

Yeah. I went to my first one last year too. But this year, my family is trying to have a reunion on the day we have Pride up here and i'm torn between which event i want to go to. This shit sucks.

I was supposed to go to the one in Vancouver this year but my plans fell through. I will probably attend the San Jose, Ca. Pride and the San Francisco Pride. Yawn!!!! Unfortunately I've gone to them forever so they're kind of boring. I've always wanted to go to a small town Pride just to shake things up and be a Bar Star.

I've always wanted to ride behind DYKES ON BIKES with a sign that read JOTO ON A MOTO which translates to fag on a motorcycle in Spanish. It's the only thing that rhymes. I can also write MIKE ON A BIKE (my name Miguel translates to Michael)


M

as always, i'll be attending the pride stuff here in mpls during the last part of next month...now if only i could find some friends to tag along with me for once...been going to the stuff for the past 2 years with nobody else!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

What a brave kittie

I will be going to Long Beach and LA this year I'll look for you during the parades Ehuff, assuming I'll be there that early

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

and hopefully the weather's better this time around for the parade...last year it rained a bit!

I support my friends in the Denver Pride Parade..

sag10 said:

hi, mama!

One thing that confuses me about Pride parades is that they appear so comic.

Homosexuals have a long way to go to achieve equality and respect, but some of those floats and stuff just seems to defeat the purpose.

It would be like African Americans marching in Montgomery portraying every mean stereotype one can place on them, me thinks.

AsianBoi777 said:

I understand where you're coming from on this. Some of us think that it really doesn't matter what we look like or how we act at the parade. I hate it when gay guys say bad things about drag queens or they want the DYKES to put their shirts on while they're on the DYKES ON BIKES. If it wasn't for a bunch of Puerto Rican drag queens gay rights would not have started. I think the funnier the parade the better. It gets too serious some times. It should be 50/50. What really irks me is how we'er portrayed by some of the anti-gay Christians in their videos. I want to go to one of their meetings and show them a video of Mardi Gras or Spring Break. How about Hedonism in the Carribean, the Club Med for Swingers. Hello. We're not the only ones.


M

p.s. I'm not raggin on you AB. You know I love you more than my Versace Jacket, D&G Belt, Pumas and Kenneth Coles combined.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

get outta my head, dammit! this is exactly what i was thinkin...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

To add to this.....these are parties. I understand the concern about image and message but these religious haters are gonna throw our asses under the bus whether we're in leather, drag, dykes riding bikes or conservative Log cabin republicans. They'll throw us all in hell. These parades are about celebrating and being open and free. You have to realize to that so many people who attend these things are those who are just coming out or coming to terms with their sexuality or exploring. They are living their life like they've never lived it before.

And Miguel is absolutely right, nobody blinks an eye over Girls gone wild, Mardi Gras or spring break.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Agreed.

But my concern stemmed from social conservatives and they're take on it. I these same conservatives say nothing about mardis gras, etc. But they don't have predisposed hatred towards boxum young women.

It's just something I found strange about pride marches. It's almost like they allow the conservatives to say "look, see? There they go!"

I never thought about it as a celebration in the community before--I always thought it was a social awareness thing for the rest of the community.

AsianBoi777 said:

it is social awarness for sure, but those conservatives hate us in or out of drag, in or out of each others arms. As long as we live our truth, it doesn't matter how flagrant or privately we live it. If we're living it, we're sinning.

It does provide fodder but if it wasn't that it would be something else, guarantee. I agree it is problematic from the standpoint that you are giving these people something to work with, but we can't stop living life to keep them from having weapons with which to use against us. They'd figure out something else if this weren't an issue.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I'll be the one with the Bright Red Mohawk

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i used to be one of the people that were really upset about the Leather, Drag and Dyke people in the parade thinking they were putting us back in all the progress we made.

But i've come to realize the Parades and the Festivals are to celebrate who we are, what we've done, and how far we've come. So fuck the Conservatives.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Deja!! We always go!! You can come with us. I always support my local gays.

I think I was out of town last year, though...

CarrieMpls said:

Deja's gay?

I didn't go to any local Pride events last year, because it pretty much consisted of a picnic, a softball game, 25% off drinks at Prima's (a local gay-friendly restaurant) and a dance that cost 30$ to get in to. I would've gone to the dance, if admission hadn't been equivalent almost 4 hours of pay.

I haven't heard anything about what's going on this year though (the ORC is pretty low-key. It's a conservative town.) so maybe I'll check it out this year.
[Edited 5/9/05 22:57pm]

CarrieMpls said:

yay! i keep lookin for you guys but there's so many people...that, and i always tend to stand over on 12th and hennepin, since it's the corner closest to my house (my apartment's literally a skip or two away from the parade route, ya'll).

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

We usually watch from that end of the route too. But yeah, it's SO many people! We'll definitely have to hook up for it this year, though.

Handclapsfingasnapz said: