18:28 - Coming out as... what?
Happy Pride Weekend!
The Bay Area Bisexual Network invited bisexuals to march with them in the Pride Parade.
I joined them. Happily! Joyfully!
As you can guess, the bisexual group and the polyamorous group are close cousins. The polyamorous group was float #91; the bisexual group was float #92.
Cool! The poly people are good folk, and I knew some of them.
For the Pride Parade, every vehicle needs four "wheel monitors": one person walking with each wheel, to make sure that no one gets under the wheel. I had taken the training, so I volunteered to be a wheel monitor.
At the start of the parade, all four wheels for the Bisexual group were covered, so I joined the group holding the banner. I joked to Dillo, the fellow next to me, "Do I qualify as out of the closet now?"
Happiness!
I walked about a third of the parade route, holding the banner with one hand and waving to people with my other hand, and having a wonderful time, until I was asked to take over as a wheel monitor...
...for the poly group ahead of us.
I switched off to that group, but I had a little problem. Though I'm very close to two wonderful people other than ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
misseli... I'm not poly.
I marched another third of the parade before I could swap off with someone else, to be a wheel monitor for the bisexual group.
But -- there are hundreds and hundreds of photos and video of me marching and outing myself with a group I'm not part of. Oh, well.
Take care, all...
P.S.
Impertinent question
Re: Impertinent question
A parade is a good way for groups to show themselves off, and to show support.
Basically, a parade says that: We are real people, and we are here.
Re: Impertinent question
I was actually having this discussion at my Meetinghouse today. Most folks believe that the Gay Civil Rights movement started with Stonewall, or that the Stonewall Riot was the first such event. Nope. There were other riots just like Stonewall in places in CA, but it was only Stonewall that inspired the Christopher Street Liberation Day parade the very next year. This was the world's first Gay Pride parade and was the event that transformed the movement from Dr. Kameny's "We're no different from anyone else. We're no threat. Honest!" mode to the "We're here! We're Queer! Get Used to It!" movement we know today.
Yea. Parades are everything, man. :-)
The parade was wonderful! And I'm glad to have been a part of it.
Huh? Arguably none of my business, but Color Me Confused.
Note however that I am not asking, at least not in this forum.
Thanks for being out in the parade and glad that you had a good time.
Yes, we're both thinking of the same lady.
We're not having a sexual relationship.
I certainly did!
(I adore my poly friends, and I was glad to help them out by being a wheel watcher...)
*grin* I had a blast. Thanks for being there.
Glad you marched in it, too!
I heard their drumming! Neat!
I keep getting mistaken for stuff I'm not - gay/bi, jewish, part black, and more.
(The fact that I'm in the 'bear' category, but straight as a board, and have a lot of gay/bi friends doesn't help, I suppose. At one point, I decided to flip some people out and do a proper camping-out with some obviously gay friends, and I guess I was pretty convincing - that was 20 years ago, and I *still* get an occasional comment from the way out end of nowhere about 'but I thought...' to me. If I show up on gaydar, they REALLY need it fixed.)