YAY! Happy Pride Day!

[thoreau]

When I told friends that I was heading out of San Francisco for Pride - the locals were like "oh yes - I understand - Go! Fly! Be Free!" - and there were others that said "Ya know, there was a time when our world STOPPED for Gay Pride and you wouldn't miss it for the world, what happened?"

I have had both feelings over the years. Marching in the Seattle Pride Parade with The Seattle Mens Chorus or handing out condom packs with what was then Northwest AIDS Foundation. My political years in Boise literally running pride (setting up tents at 5am and tearing them down at 6pm) and marching with a few hundred other Boiseans through downtown. I get the pride day where it begins with brunch with friends, everyone rushes down to watch the parade and you stroll through the festival afterwards - taking in the chorus singing or whomever is performing.

Last year here in SF - the weather was scorching (and I got lobster red). There were SO many people I felt positively claustrophobic. So this year - as David and I are just getting started in our journey together - I thought it would be nice to get away - and get some of those big topics out on the table and spend time undistracted and well, spending gay pride day in a different way.

I am REALLY looking forward to Dore Alley this year - and sharing a puddle with friends and sharing that uniquely masculine/erotically charged event with David (and the Michaels and everyone else). and so perhaps it's that my high holy days are shifting - and that in the last four years since Jon left me (the week before Pride in Boise in 2004) that I've changed dramatically - and nothing in my life is the same. So why should I figure that I approach things like the 1.2 million people in town for Pride in the "same, old way".

I love the community in my life - my local friends in the Fine Food Feeding Frenzy, my incredible coworkers and that grrrrrrrreat job, my new place and my dog - and David. and starting next week - my first theater family with the new play. I'm proud to have reached this place with much less drama than in previous years - and 'pride' just means different things. (as it should when you are 40 vs. 20)

Happy Pride Day Everyone!


this post was written in advance and automatically posted by LJ - I won't reply to comments till returning to town on Monday/Tuesday

Comments

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

i have always been in the position that pride is inside, not necessarily on the street on a specific date. Palm Springs celebrates in November, Dallas in May, and others dont even have a parade. it is pride in who we are, no matter who we are that matters.

Hope you enjoyed your Castle Trip. and got back safely.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Santa Fe Pride is tomorrow. Denver's was last weekend and Albuquerque's two weeks before. I'm Prided out.

;-)

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

this post was written in advance and automatically posted by LJ - I won't reply to comments till returning to town on Monday/Tuesday

You know, I've tried doing that, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

Are you using an auto-mailer into LJ, or the regular "change the date" method in LJ?

[book-of-daniel.livejournal.com]

Silence of the Muffin

Time of death: 13 hours 8 minutes.

[enhydrasf.livejournal.com]

and sharing a puddle with friends

does that mean:

?

[zlistbear.livejournal.com]

Did someone say puddle??? Don't forget about the curb races!!!

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