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Sunday Happenings
Yesterday's Pride parade marched right past the State House, demanding equality and having a mighty good time doing it. We were especially impressed by the fact that Deval Patrick was right there, supporting Pride. And he didn't ride a car - he was marching with everyone else. We couldn't quite catch him, but we got his group.
The other Pride floats were a blast. Everyone - and we do mean everyone - joined in, from the Jagermeister party truck to a guy from the Apprentice to the Pagans. But our favorite float was one for Ramrod. And we had to add in the photo below that because those guys were getting in some impressive poses:
We have only one request for the Pride paraders next year - it isn't a good idea to throw full cans of soda at the revelers. Beads are fine, but full cans of soda might sting a little.
Images by Caroline Roberts. See all the images on Flickr.
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the boston globe published about a dozen photographs of the parade--one of deval & co., and several of the more outlandish floats...not one publication including this blog has published any photos of the legions of STROLLERS AND PAPOOSES...i was at the parade, and everywhere i looked, there were gay people with their children.
it is too bad that only the leather & lace crowd gets their pix up on the 'net on Pride Weekend. the parade has an excellent tradition of Camp that is loads of fun to ogle at, but it is also an opportunity to see the amazing diversity within the gay community. NOT showing that is poor journalism.
Well, I'm not sure that it qualifies as poor journalism given space limits, etc. But the governor did march in support of families having equal rights under the law, and there were many families marching. Now, what would have been really bad journalism would have been to put the Ramrod guys above the governor.
on boston.com, where there was space enough for a 14 photo slide show, only TWO even showed a gay couple marching together...all the others were variations on Glinda the Good Witch & the Ramrod guys. a little balance would have been far more interesting.
It'd be awesome if readers would tag some photos of Pride with "bostonist" - all I see on the stream from the weekend is pictures of some woman and her trip to the Red Sox/D-Backs game.
But yeah, I'll admit it, the Ramrod guys are a spectacle. Friends and neighbors that we see as regular people (strollers and papooses and all) rather than some special class of person are harder to see as iconic. But since you mention it - that's really a story in and of itself.