Pride (where a booth sets any group back $400+), though gay 2nd Amendment advocates and libertarians were banned in 2015 from the Olympia, Washington festival.īut this year’s different. I’m not sure that a viewpoint has ever been “rejected” at D.C.
The groups represented by booths include Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and gays from pretty much every religious-and anti-religious-group you can imagine. In D.C., the gay Pride parade is one weekend day and the gay Pride festival-with music, speakers, food vendors, outdoor booths, and exhibits-is the next. I hoped the children did not notice, and luckily, I don’t think they did. She was naked, except for the purple body paint. What I had taken to be a caterpillar costume were rolls of fat and sagging breasts. She was wearing purple deely-boppers, purple body paint, a purple thong, and purple flip flops. Once I focused on her, I realized it was not exactly the costume I had imagined. We saw a woman dressed as a purple caterpillar marching in the parade, complete with the deely-bopper insect antennae popular a few years ago. I kept watching this caterpillar woman without thinking about it, before finally realizing that I was trying to ascertain not just what a caterpillar had to do with the Pride march, but how her costume was constructed. My bright, somewhat free-market-oriented lesbian friend, along with her two bright and beautiful kids (actual offspring of a donor at the famous Nobel Laureate sperm bank), watched the parade together. In somewhat more “conservative” D.C., I remember watching the parade with an A-list, “power lesbian” acquaintance, a trade lobbyist who sits on the board of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. Near nudity is common (or in San Francisco, actual nudity is). Gay Pride festivals and marches are usually free-speech, or more accurately, free-expression zones.
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Gay Pride Parades Usually Support Free Expression Out-of-town Pride celebrants took over the streets on a sparkling, sunny day with temperatures in the mid-70s. between Dupont and the National Mall, were impassable to vehicular traffic, including public bus service. gayborhood, Dupont Circle, as well as areas in downtown D.C. Those of us who were there remember that streets in the then-D.C. Such a gay march on Washington has not occurred since 2000, when there was a “Millennium March,” and before that in 1993, when at least 300,000 gays marched, addressed by gay friends and appointees of President Bill Clinton and his administration. This year, gay anti-Trump activists around the United States are planning a “million gay” anti-Trump march, the Equality March, on June 11 in Washington DC, when the city holds its local Pride Festival. Gay pride parades and festivals-which occur by the hundreds in June and July-are rapidly upon us.