Wednesday, June 21, 2006
PRIDE O'six.........
So for those that know and those that don't know...this weekend is Pride 2006 in Atlanta. I look forward to pride all year long. I can still remember when I was young...... you know, when you are young and gay and you don't know really any other gay people, you sorta question whether or not you are an okay person. I mean it's natural....if you look around and you don't see anyone else quite like you, you wonder if YOU is something really bad. But the thing about PRIDE is....and I have said this for years.....no matter how F'ed you may think you are...and you may really be going for totally F'ed.....there is someone out there that makes you look completely normal...and that person is going to be at pride, probably with her shirt off wearing nothing but virgin olive oil and electrical tape....alright, maybe that was just my experience, but anyway.... point is, PRIDE is a really good at leveling that weirdo playing field in your mind. Not only that, but it's like you get to imagine, and only for the weekend...what the world might be like if just about everyone else was gay.
Actually I sorta doubt straight people go around doin' high fives and honkin' the horn at each other "LOOK!!!!! WE"RE HERE.....WE'RE HETERO!!!! LET'S GET STICKERS FOR THE CAR!!!", but who knows what you breeders do when you get in a pack. Last year we were going back to the hotel after a long day at the park..........jammin to the indigo girls.......hum.......[dreamy music]....it was a little like this .........
So for those that know and those that don't know...this weekend is Pride 2006 in Atlanta. I look forward to pride all year long. I can still remember when I was young...... you know, when you are young and gay and you don't know really any other gay people, you sorta question whether or not you are an okay person. I mean it's natural....if you look around and you don't see anyone else quite like you, you wonder if YOU is something really bad. But the thing about PRIDE is....and I have said this for years.....no matter how F'ed you may think you are...and you may really be going for totally F'ed.....there is someone out there that makes you look completely normal...and that person is going to be at pride, probably with her shirt off wearing nothing but virgin olive oil and electrical tape....alright, maybe that was just my experience, but anyway.... point is, PRIDE is a really good at leveling that weirdo playing field in your mind. Not only that, but it's like you get to imagine, and only for the weekend...what the world might be like if just about everyone else was gay.
Actually I sorta doubt straight people go around doin' high fives and honkin' the horn at each other "LOOK!!!!! WE"RE HERE.....WE'RE HETERO!!!! LET'S GET STICKERS FOR THE CAR!!!", but who knows what you breeders do when you get in a pack. Last year we were going back to the hotel after a long day at the park..........jammin to the indigo girls.......hum.......[dreamy music]....it was a little like this .........
......I never can stay on topic.....anyway, we were in the lift, Laura and I, and there was another woman there just sorta looking at the buttons, you know how you do....and Laura and I were talking and laughing and this woman out of no where just sorta stroked my face and kissed me.....hum....I sorta just remembered that.....okay so that was wierd and that's not really one of my favorite things about pride.....I don't know.......wait for the pictures maybe......
The whole point of the blog was to mention that I got my hair cut today for pride. I am very sensitive about having my hair grow out into anything even remotely like a Mullet. I have been driving my brother's truck all week and with the hairs in the back just getting a tad long...it was time to deal with it. And if you wear a mullet and love it, I'm not tryin to knock that okay...I can be business up top, party in the back too, I just don't like to play into all the stereotypes at the same time......and I wasn't taking off the thumb ring....
The whole point of the blog was to mention that I got my hair cut today for pride. I am very sensitive about having my hair grow out into anything even remotely like a Mullet. I have been driving my brother's truck all week and with the hairs in the back just getting a tad long...it was time to deal with it. And if you wear a mullet and love it, I'm not tryin to knock that okay...I can be business up top, party in the back too, I just don't like to play into all the stereotypes at the same time......and I wasn't taking off the thumb ring....
