Monday, June 11, 2007

Pride Revisited

I thoroughly enjoyed the DC Pride Festival Sunday -- it was a good day of networking, meeting people and hanging out with friends.

The Parade Sat. was another matter. I was screamed at most of the way by overzealous parade marshalls, one of whom interrupted our performance and physically pushed some of our members. Our band was patronized by the announcers at the reviewing stand. One of our members said afterword, "If I wanted snarky comments I woulda watched Will and Grace." Indeed, the humor the emcees seemed to be going for was Karen Walker.

It was very much not in the spirit of pride. I personally will not march in the parade next year. I went home Saturday night feeling degraded and frustrated.

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