We know it’s hard to believe, but West Hollywood got even more gay this weekend as about 175,000 homos took to the street for Los Angeles’ pride march.
Marriage proved to be the dominant theme during the celebrations. And for good reason: Californian queers can start tying the proverbial knot in five days.
On the 1.4-mile parade route along Santa Monica Boulevard, dancers in skimpy briefs strutted atop flatbeds and a firetruck. Convertibles carried elected officials waving at the crowd and men in drag, including Allan Penales, an actor from “La Cage aux Folles,” which opened Saturday at the Knightsbridge Theater in L.A. He wore a flowing white gown with a 2-foot-high sequined headdress.
Among those honored were Robin Tyler and the Rev. Troy Perry, two plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to last month’s Supreme Court ruling. Rodney Scott, president of the Christopher Street West Assn., which organized the event, said the decision to honor them had been made before the ruling.
The parade didn’t come without a few clouds, of course, with anti-gay activists picketing along the route. Most of the marchers, says the LA Times, simply walked by laughing. Don’t you love the gays?!
The LA Times has many more wonderfully lavender shots.
foofyjim
I love that sign about Atheism. It really is much easier, there’s so much less guilt.
RPCV
Why can’t the gays act like “normal” people?? If we had a bunch of authentic construction workers, policemen, and office workers in ties and suits walking around proudly displaying their “pride” then str8 society wouldn’t default to their stereotypical thoughts/impressions/attitudes. Flamers and flamboyant fags don’t identify with me or with any of my friends or friends friends. I wouldn’t be caught dead at the DC gay pride event. As a community, gays should hang our heads in shame at the ways we portray ourselves. Just a thought…….
hmmmm
Dear RPCV,
It is not o.k. that you are a self hating gay person and that you do not accept the gay community in its diversity.
Get some serious help.
scott
at RPCV:
If you and your friends are so upset about representation of gays… then maybe you should get your asses out in the parade and round up all of the “normal” gays to do so as well and show some pride on several floats.