This past Sunday, San Francisco celebrated the 96th year of the annual ING Bay to Breakers 12K, the largest foot race in the world. This means the streets were crowded with more than 100,000 visitors and locals who either ran or walked the route from Embarcadero Bay to–surprise– the Ocean Beach breakers!
Queerty correspondent Jimmy Im (the picture of professionalism) promptly made start time at 8 am and trekked 7.5 miles – in his record time: 3 hours and 50 minutes! – across the city, parading along ked-chugging trojan frat boys, gay smurfs, free balling old men and a shitload of dick-in-a-boxes!
What started as a race 96 years ago somehow turned into a Mardi Gras- slash-Carnival-slash-gay pride-slash-Halloween in spring, and folks from all over the world come to be as free as can be. For those who were too drunk to cross the finish line missed the Footstock festival where the band Cracker played live and San Franciscans traditionally smoked up and drank beers in Golden Gate Park, celebrating a long morning of boozing. I had the pleasure of returning to my suite at the Hyatt Regency (who was the official sponsor) for a back massage. Nothing like loosening those kinks from all the neck craning!
HL
Pst, I think you meant keg chugging. Unless the frat boys have taken to consuming the footwear.
el polacko
bay to breakers is kind of the gay parade for (mostly) str8 people. they get to dress up in silly costumes and a few get nekkid (tee hee). it’s mostly kind of annoying but eye-candy is eye-candy… and at least it wasn’t totally freezing or raining this year.
john
I get totally lost on some of these stories – typos, incorrect word usage, missing words, etc. I love this site, but maybe Queerty should stick with photos and ad cum stains and boogers to them like Perez and TMZ.