Pride month wrap up

Holy cannoli!  What a wild ride this month as been.  It is astonishing to me that it's been an entire month of pride and that it is now over.  I have a bit to catch up on, so we'll start with Saturday and the second pride I attended and we'll end with a bit of a wrap up of the whole month, okay?  Okay!

Welcome to pride in our city!  It's not much.  We don't have a parade or anything exciting like that, but we do have a street we shut down for a few hours!  Woohoo!

I found this queen interesting.  The sign basically was against a local food chain and this queen was all about being friendly, chatting it up, and being all excited about being at pride.  The outfit made my day!

The best part of our pride, and really the reason everyone goes, is because of the Drag Show!  We know how to put on a show here.  This was my favorite queen of the entire night.  I know the picture is kinda awful, but she was seriously awesome.

This was my warm fuzzy drag king.  We don't have many kings around here, but we actually had 2 king performances this year.  This one was YMCA (did the outfits give it away?) and not only did it have 2 kings on the stage together, the military man is the father of the police officer.  It is awesome to see parents encouraging their children.  They were also a fun performance.

This was a personal love of this performance.  The only queen to bring an interpreter up on stage with her!  And he did a kick ass job.  I loved it!  Absolutely loved it.

And of course, the reason I know our little pride is becoming something, protesters!  This is the first year we've had people come out and protest...

LOOK people holding signs!

And our way of dealing with protestors here?

Pride flags and chanting for them to go home.

So that wraps up our pride.  Small but awesome!


So to wrap up this month, Pride is important.  From George Takei to drag queens, safe sex, and even remembering that when our children come out you just need to breathe, Pride is important. Pride reminds us that it is okay to exist and there are other people out there who are just like you.  What more can you ask for in life than to know that you are not alone? 

In case that needs to be repeated... you are not alone. 

Until Next Time.