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| Highlights from the Walk of Shame |
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| By Beulah Mae |
| on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 12:54 |
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Well, it's taken a week for me to recover enough to be able to talk about the event, so this is going to be a long post. Mostly it's a graphic post, but not necessarily explicit. In this parade, there were 115 floats. As I predicted, it started out with a bunch of very butch women riding big, loud, bikes. I immediately took exception to how un-green they were, especially when that rich smelling smoke blew up in my face. Looovely. There were several gay-employee-supporting companies. I believe the largest was PriceWaterHouseCoopersWhateverElseWeCanAddOnThisYear. Then, maybe Nike. Lots of ladies work at Nike. Oh hell yes. Single lesbians reading this blog: get a job at Nike. Sororitize with your coworkers. Another prediction I had spot on was the number of open and affirming churches and "spiritual organerzaysherns," as Betty B might say. Except I think I might have underestimated the number of churches. There were definitely more than 20. There were a horde of Unitarians. Then 2-3 people from every UCC in the metro area, it seemed. Following them in numbers were, of course, the Episcopals, and in their ranks, one of the only about two half-naked boys I saw in the parade. Being an Episcopal must be liberating. Let me not forget the MCC with it's butch lady-priestesses dressed in full black and collar. "Honey them vestments was not workin'." Then a few Methodists trailed, taking a rare stand on something, anything. After all of this, we looked down the street and it was s t i l l coming, so we left for lunch. Now for the pictures. Mayoress I expected the gayoress to come riding a phallically-shaped fake tram or streetcar, or perhaps a bike. But not at all. She was, however, still being green, riding atop a red coach pulled by a couple of black stallions. Not much carbon emission, but a hell of a lot of methane. WAIT... there's more pics. I keep reading after the cut... Scary I don't quite understand this entry and I don't remember what it was for. We don't have Buccaneer Days here in Portland, but there was a pirate ship float with these scary looking people following it. Who knows. Religion Let us not forget the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, seen here with the parade's other half-naked boy.  I nearly forgot. There was a contingent of gay Mormons. They had the most clever sayings! I'm sure Moroni appeared to this guy and told him exactly what to write.  Drag I forgot to mention drag. There wasn't enough of it, really. There were plenty of trannies, well, tranny-grannies as they called themselves. I'm just going to leave that alone. However, our favorite drag queen Lotta Liquor was there (being a white lady, she is no relation to Shirley), riding a Segway. I was amazed at her prowess on the vehicle, even as she was decked out in a dress, fake jewels, and those clear drag shoes. If any of you are curious as to what Lotta looks like out of drag, I managed to get a <%popup(Garth Brooks offering new single August 27-thumb.jpg" alt="photo" />. Overall, it was a fun parade in a very open and accepting city. I only heard one derogatory comment -- from some redneck workers several streets down saying shit like "this is getting out of hand, going too far." Latent fears. |