Comments on: Boston Pride: We’re Here, We’re Queer, I Think We’re Maybe Getting Used To It

By: Jane R

Jane R — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:54:23 +0000

Thanks for a wonderful report!

By: Ed (Simple Village Organist)

Ed (Simple Village Organist) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:11:28 +0000

PeaceBang, you nailed this old queen’s feelings about Pride celebrations! Rock on. (I linked to both of these posts, btw).

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:07:37 +0000

@Mary Ann: Made me cry, too. I used to be baffled by the things that brought tears to my eyes. Now I just figure it is the Divine’s way of whupping me upside my head and saying, “This is important. Pay attention.” Now that I know the waterworks are a message, I welcome them to help me focus.

By: God Guurrll

God Guurrll — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:56:37 +0000

I was at Boston Pride as well. It was a blast! My favorite float was the ramrod.

By: Barbara Kszystyniak

Barbara Kszystyniak — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:41:18 +0000

I just want to echo your salute to my brother in Christ, Rev. Martin D. McLee. At our United Methodist Conference last week he was elected (on the first ballot) as a delegate to our General Conference in 2008.

Praise God!

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:54:27 +0000

Reading your account made me cry. Mind you, I pastor in Wyoming.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:23:45 +0000

When I was there I went to the interfaith service which was at Old South Church at 10, then walked down the street to Arlington Street for the UU service at 11. I wanted to go to both. It’s a shame they’re separate I suppose, but there were a lot of UUs. I’m not sure there’s be enough room anywhere if the UUs crowded in too.

Wish I’d been there. Really.

By: Scott Wells

Scott Wells — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:57:47 +0000

In DC, there’s a parade on Saturday night (last night) and the street festival on Sunday. Until this year, both were — for inexplicable historical reasons — organized and produced by the largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, which has since has fallen on to hard times, had to reorganize its mission, and isn’t what I’d call a gay organization.

This year a coalition of groups — including the area Interweave — produced it and it seemed much healthier.

The festival still seems like the Big Gay State Fair — “don’t miss it, don’t even be late!”

The parade was better than prior years, in good measure due to the strip clubs (closed and in limbo due to their businesses taken by eminent domain to build the new baseball stadium) not having their tacky floats.

The new mayor, plus four or five members of the City Council (two are openly gay) and gay police officers from three or four area jurisdictions were predictable participants.

The popular contingents included a band from New York, PFLAG (as always) and the gay Baptists! Most of the rest of the religious contingents looked shabby, disinterested or both. (One exception was the Episcopalians; Bishop Chane was carted in a convertible; another was the leather club associated with the Catholic ministry Dignity; http://www.dignityusa.org/defenders/index.html)

By: mskitty

mskitty — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:31:37 +0000

What a great review of PRIDE! I have to miss the Seattle Pride Fest again, but have marched in Pride parades for years. It is one of my favorite things to do, to be with that wildly diverse, outrageous, loving swarm of every imaginable (and some unimaginable) sexual and gender identity under the sun. How lucky we are to have such colorful and delightful friends!