Well, I'm happy to say I survived the long weekend, barely.... and I'm sure this Monday will be an ugly one! I was joined in NYC for the blow out Gay Pride festivities, with the clan... of Mistress Maddie's #1 Fan, Preston, Christoper and his pup Cleo, Miss Moorecock, Kio and Mack. It started with All Pink Disco, a dance party at Pier 17 hosted by Trixie Mattel and Katya, continued with a drag party with me being mistaken for Big Bird, the Parade itself, which this year had a live feed on YouTube, the street festival, and drinks at the place where it all started, the Stonewall Inn and more nips and sips at sing along bar, Marie's Crisis. It was great seeing the very large numbers again, and all getting along. The thing about the gay and drag communities is that we have the ability to celebrate life in spite of being called faggots, or beaten up, not accepted, being ostracized, and not being counted as citizens. From pain, you need to create joy, because many of us have been in pain. As that is what Pride is...a celebration of pride and joy. We need to stop compartmentalizing ourselves into bears' twinks, butches, femmes, trans, tops, bottoms and those who claim they have no gender to further divide an already small community which does not have rights to equal housing and employment. And we're even barred from using the bathrooms of our choice in some states. That's a surefire way to make sure we'll never get equal rights. We need to remember that there are young member of our own tribe who have gotten nothing but soul-destroying messages from school mates, their churches and even their own families. Do they need our help? They need to see large groups of their own tribe accepting each other all year, not just at Pride time, in a festive environment so that they don't feel so alone. They need to see happy and proud gay,lesbian,transexual and every color of the rainbow folk actually liking and accepting each other AND supporting each other. I also recommend if you ever get the chance, celebrate sometime in NYC and the Village and Stonewall. It always gets me melancholy, and gets one to thinking this is where is started.
My foot might make a promo!
Loved these hotties boots.
Cheers to those trailblazers who came before us
Happy Pride Month!!!
