Open Wide for Pride
Yesterday was a festive but damp culmination to a super-soggy weekend, as LCF and I marched in the NYC Gay Pride parade with the Green Party. We were there to support our friend Alison Duncan, who is currently running for Lieutenant Governor, so we worked the edges of the parade route, handing out her rainbow-striped literature and waving the earnest, hand-lettered sign pictured above as the honorable Ms. Duncan turned on the charm, smiling and waving to all her adoring potential constituents. I’ve always found that parades are way more fun to be in than to watch from the sidelines. There’s less pushing and shoving, and interacting block after block with cheering revelers is totally fascinating, whereas shifting from foot-to-foot in one spot as endless advertisements for things roll by is less so. I’m not drinking hata-ade or anything. Folks really do turn it out for pride, but I think New Yorkers have no idea how bizarre and beautiful they look to the people waving back at them.