Yesterday I went with Sarah Thompson to a gay pride parade.

The day went something like this-
Breakfast of fake sausage, cheesy eggs, and coffee.  Hurry to bus. 
At 8:44am Sarah and I were less than a half block away from the LCT stop when we see the bus pass. 
Sarah- It was definitely not the bus, they are never early
me- ok we'll wait

wait wait wait

it was the bus. 

We decide to wander around town and run into Leah (housemate) and friend (John).  I mention what happened.  He offers to drive us.  COOL!

We ask for directions and end up with a spot in the parade and free t-shirts from some nice Equality for Ohio folks.  We walk in the parade carrying flags, handing out cards, and occasionally helping to carry the banner.  Then we watch the rest of the parade:

Cleveland Drag Kings and Girls- we saw them preform to   
They were amazing.  Let's just say, one of them involved     
a drag vampire.   Those too words, in the same sentence,   
SO MUCH AWESOME.   Not to mention oh my god,             
attractive, SO attractive. 

Went up and talked to them afterwards.  They were all really
nice and really down to earth.  They told us about their
upcoming SUPER HERO THEMED DRAG SHOW.  Need I say
more;  I'll be there.

This was a party bus that we saw going down the parade route.
It had little rainbow windmills attached to the sides and in case
you can't tell, the little fuzzy dots are bubbles!  The side of the
bus reads: Metro Youth.

This cool lady was
wearing the most amaz-
ing outfit.  We went up
and talked to her later
(everyone there was
really friendly).  A girl she
was talking to was saying
how much she wanted to
go to Oberlin. 
Her outfit also included
a Q on the front.  (I am a
terrible gay, my first
thought was that the Q
stood for Quail Man).
Note the roller skates.


At the festival after the parade:



These were some of the performers for one of the fetish shows
advertised above.  They were scantily clad and there were
chains and whips and collars involved.  Also one woman wear                                                                                                    
leather bra that looked like a spider web (and was as revealing)                                                                                                            
and one dorky, yet endearing ring leader guy with top hat and                                                                                                       
goggles.
                                                                                                           
We also saw a local rock band perform called Equals 4 with one very hot guitarist/back up singer.  The back of her guitar said "Lick Me". 

Sarah and I were starting to leave just as it started to get really windy.  There was this construction site we had to walk by with a huge mound of dirt and grit that was getting tossed up into a huge dust whirlwind.  We made it into subway for cover.  There we ran into the CDK or the Cleveland Drag Kings from earlier.  After eating dinner and hanging out in the subway for a while, the wind finally died down.  However, it had started to pour.   We were shoe-squishing and twist out the water from our shirt sleeves wet.  It certainly didn't help that we had just come from seeing so very many hot lesbians.  I was so soaked that you could even see the contents of my short pockets from the outside of the shorts and the pride from my rainbow underwear. 

We took turns changing in a corner of the subway into our dryer extra free shirts we got that day and then took the RTA to the airport.  Andrew and Erica picked us up from there.  They brought towels- you guys are absolutely wonderful people!

At the end of the day (and I can only speak for myself, but I am going to assume that most of these apply for Sarah as well), we were: covered in grit and dust, wet, turned on, tired, and sun burnt.  My parents, having given up on keeping me clean in kindergarten, invented a saying that went something like, "Well, the dirtier you are- the more covered in paint and dirt and marker, the more bruised from soccer and kickball- the more fun you had today".  By there standards and mine, It was a very good day.

To top it all off, at the end of the day I checked my e-mail and found out they want me to start working occasional catering jobs right away- JOB!!!.   YESSS!!!


p.s.  I had planned on going to the chalk walk since I didn't think this would happen.  I'm sorry I missed it.  I want to hear all about cool things people drew and interesting things that happened. 

p.p.s.  glad there was, in fact, no tornado.

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