The Pride Week That Was: The Parade by Steff

I'm gonna post a number of Pride photos in the coming days. Yours truly was a marshall at the parade yesterday, so I was able to get great photos in the Thick of it All as I got to boss around innocent bystanders and collect money for the society.

Here are a few of them with the stories to boot.

The coolest thing about Pride, and seeing it from an inside-the-parade perspective, is just how wildly diverse the onlooking public is. You got your kids sittin' on the mailboxes just to get a glimpse of Dykes on Bikes, saggy old drag queens, and hot sailors shaking their asses.

Hell, back in my day we kids would watch the Salvation Army brass band's parade. Who says things aren't changing after all? Just a few of the spectators out of the FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND that attended that I'll be showing you in the coming days:





And this young guy's sticker says "Need a boost? Eat me! www.realmagicmushrooms.com" Heh.



Here's a fun series of shots.

It started out with a few fun-seeking rowdies spraying water guns at the female firefighter on the back of the engine.


A couple minutes later, some bigger guns join the waterfight fun.


But, aha! Size DOES count, and the seemingly outnumbered female firefighter appears on the scene with her big ol' hose.



Take THAT, you silly parade-watcher!



The waterfight fun stopped the parade dead in its tracks for about 10 minutes. It was a blast.