Let the Pride Begin
June is the month of gay pride as much as February is the month of Black History.
June is the month of the Gemini -- twins with dual personalities that are like Jekyll and Hyde. That about describes the gay man. He can be a blend of a good breadwinner and a great homemaker. He is yin and yang swirled together. He is charming yet bitchy. He can swish down the catwalk, but can strut right into the end zone.
June is the month the TONY's are handed out. How appropriate that Broadway gives out it's highest honor this month? We may joke that liking the theatre is an obviously gay trait, but it's so true!
June is when Broadway Cares puts on their most scandalous fund raiser. For all intensive purposes, this event kicks off the Pride festivities. You could argue that it's the Rally in Bryant Park. But this is my blog, and well this event kicks it off for me.
June is when Heritage of Pride throws the annual Pride festivities including a rally, parade, dance, and street fest.
And in the middle of all this gayness is the annual Puerto Rican Pride Parade. The irony here is that Latinos are not very accepting of homosexuals -- perhaps even more so than Republicans. And the parade is perhaps the most unloved in the City. Year after year, residences along the parade route board up their windows and businesses close for the day. It's such a problem that local new channels cover the story and interview disgruntled businesses and doorman buildings along the route. And I have to say, I've walked the aftermath of the parade in years past, and the trash left after the parade is much worse than the gay pride one. Perhaps the big difference is that the Gay Pride one occurs through the neighborhoods that are most gay concentrated where as the Puerto Rican Pride is not. It's just an observation and is not meant to be bigoted in any way (just my observations).
Let the pride begin!
June is the month of the Gemini -- twins with dual personalities that are like Jekyll and Hyde. That about describes the gay man. He can be a blend of a good breadwinner and a great homemaker. He is yin and yang swirled together. He is charming yet bitchy. He can swish down the catwalk, but can strut right into the end zone.
June is the month the TONY's are handed out. How appropriate that Broadway gives out it's highest honor this month? We may joke that liking the theatre is an obviously gay trait, but it's so true!
June is when Broadway Cares puts on their most scandalous fund raiser. For all intensive purposes, this event kicks off the Pride festivities. You could argue that it's the Rally in Bryant Park. But this is my blog, and well this event kicks it off for me.
June is when Heritage of Pride throws the annual Pride festivities including a rally, parade, dance, and street fest.
And in the middle of all this gayness is the annual Puerto Rican Pride Parade. The irony here is that Latinos are not very accepting of homosexuals -- perhaps even more so than Republicans. And the parade is perhaps the most unloved in the City. Year after year, residences along the parade route board up their windows and businesses close for the day. It's such a problem that local new channels cover the story and interview disgruntled businesses and doorman buildings along the route. And I have to say, I've walked the aftermath of the parade in years past, and the trash left after the parade is much worse than the gay pride one. Perhaps the big difference is that the Gay Pride one occurs through the neighborhoods that are most gay concentrated where as the Puerto Rican Pride is not. It's just an observation and is not meant to be bigoted in any way (just my observations).
Let the pride begin!
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