
Gay Pride in San Francisco was fucking awesome!!! Terri, Ruth, and I left Sacramento around 7pm Saturday night drove to SF, and then we pretty much just
went to the pink party in the Castro. We met up with Johnny Farns, who came home with us. Streets were closed off and thousands of people crowded the Castro dancing. there were great DJs, great lights, and the biggest disco ball I have ever seen! (it was seriously like bigger than my fucking car, and held up by a crane) Pretty rad. I saw so many people I know, and it was great to was great to see Tim Muldoon there.
The whole time we just walked through the crowd talking to people and dancing our faces off. Then around the time it was winding down and the streets were being
returned to normal, we still needed somewhere to dance and hang out. And then the best thing happened… We saw a huge crowd coming down the street, and we thought to ourselves “that’s where we need to be” so we met up with them. It was a MICHAEL JACKSON FLASH MOB DANCE PARTY. This guy had huge speakers on his bike and only played MJ, and there was a huge group of us around him just dancing. We took it to the streets and stopped traffic, we danced all the way from The Castro to Union Square. That was one of my favorite moments from life. It was such a great way to celebrate Michael Jackson. (although then we had to walk back the whole way we had just danced, back to the Castro and then further to find my car. ugh)
I should also mention that I have an awesome Michael Jackson Thriller Jacket. My friend Maggie gave it to me years ago, and this week I have been wearing it. So I of course wore it to pride, and everyone loved it. I had a lot of fun just with the attention from that. I saw a few other people dressed up as MJ, so I had to jump in the picture. And then a quick search on twitter for “Pride Michael Jackson” came up with this guy’s blog and this picture…

Haha! I love that I was able to find this so easily. That’s why I love twitter.

I had a lot of fun, what can I say?

Johnny looks so badass. (I had straightened his hair)

Devin Ritchie and Timmy Muldoon, back together.

Devin Ritchie and the Disco Ball.

The guy leading the dance party!

Epic, in every sense of the word.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence spreading their “joy”(spray painting Union Square)

The Castro lookin all pretty.


Me looking ridiculous. I don’t know why my friends let me take off my shirt. Probably because we were all feeling ridiculous and good. I kinda LOVE these pictures though. Much <3 to Terri Brindisi for being our photographer.
We got home about 6:30am. Wish I could have gone for the whole weekend.

While Pride was amazingly fun, I got the feeling many people did not know why they were there, many people were there because it was a free huge party. What’s the point of Gay Pride? To celebrate being gay? To have a place to be proud of who you are? To further the progress being made to gain equal rights? It’s all those things. But what I saw was people drinking, dancing, and yes being proud of who they are. Except for visibility, nothing I saw was helping the gay rights movement. I don’t know what I was expecting, but now is not the time to be relaxed about the subject. I know that if the amount of people that were there worked together they could move mountains. I realize I did not make it to the parade and that is much more centralized around rights. But this should be the epicenter of the gay rights movement and it was the epicenter of the gay party. After Prop 8 we can not expect to be handed anything. As a state, as a country, and as a culture we have to continue to pursue equality. It’s Pride, not Mardi Gras. Or is it?
peace
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