Gay ol’ time:
Got pride?
So, I lost my 512 mb flash card for a while, and just found it yesterday in one of Lan‘s
drawers. Opening it up and getting the pictures off was like
opening up one of them time capsules. There were events on
there that I didn’t even remember taking pictures of.
Is it surprising at all that I didn’t remember about this picture?
One of the events was Pride ’05, LA.
For those of you that don’t know, I’m a huge faghag. Honestly,
I’ve even considered entering the contest at times. In high
school, I was one of the founding members of our GSA (Gay Straight
Alliance), went to gay prom [with my then-boyfriend who ended up
holding hands with another boy….] and participated in several parades.
Anyhow, while I was in college I really could only concentrate on one club, so I gave up being a gay and community service freak and became just a community service freak.
Which is why, when the opportunity came up in my club to volunteer at
Pride ’05, I jumped up at the opportunity because of all my great
memories from the past.
We came just expecting to be volunteers at booths or some other funny
volunteer thing, but we all ended up actually being in the parade
itself. We were even on TV!
They gave us great shirts as soon as we arrived
My friend and I got to walk some politician’s car.
Here’s me trying to steal it before I got apprehended
The car I really wanted to walk
Our neighbor, Phil, the Syphilis sore
The view as we were walking in the parade
And finally, no gay event is complete without a couple of faries.
It was probably one of the most fun events I’ve been to in the last
four years of college… And it made me regret not being more active in
our school’s LGBT club.
All I know is, I’m definitely going again next year.
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If you were to make a time capsule, what would you put in it?