My introduction to my photostream from the 2009 San Diego Pride Parade (the video is all of one-and-a-half-minutes long, no editing of the intro either):

And the 250-ish photos I took of that parade:

I was there with my friend Vicki, her wife Lynda, Vicki and Lynda’s friend Gail. I met my oldest son and his girlfriend at the parade too.

It was fun! I didn’t go near the “free speech zone” to hear the conservative “Christian” spew their hate, but I decided I’d rather have fun yesterday than see & hear the crappy part of my home town’s pride weekend. Sue me.

So hey, this too is an open thread, so blogwhore, discuss Pride events you’ve gone to this year…whatever!


Update: The San Diego Union-Tribune‘s take on the Transgender Comminity’s float in the parade:

Gabriel Mason helped build a float with the facade of the Stonewall Bar behind the cab of a flatbed truck, with the letters L-G-B-T emerging from the front door of the club.

They placed the T in the back of the flatbed, as if it was leading a march into the street, Mason said, because he and his friends have suffered more discrimination than most.

“The transgender community has been knocked under the bus,” said Mason, 44, a Golden Hill resident who lived as a woman until he was 38. “But it’s our turn now. Transgender is the new gay.”