Long Beach Pride

So I thought I would give a quick follow-up to Long Beach Pride. The weekend festivities were filled with everything that you hope Pride weekend is filled with - boys, booze, and boys. Gee, I hate to be cliche, but years of experience has told me these are the best ingredients for a good Pride. Oh sure, it is important that you have a parade that kicks ass, that the festival have incredible talent, and that there are plenty of rainbow junk vendors, but the real beauty of the festival lies in the quality of the beer and the quality of the boys!

I have read recently about the likely demise of gay pride events as homos become homogenized in society. Maybe someday there will need to be a scaling back of our oh-so-fabulous Queer spectaculars - wait - what am I saying? We shouldn't have a gay pride event because we are so mixed in with the heteros that we don't need to celebrate ourselves? If we were to follow this line of reasoning, every St. Patrick's Day parade, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade, and Mardi Gras parade should be cancelled. Indeed, I fully suspect that as long as there are Queers willing to line the parade spots and the parade routes and as long as there are good beer and better boys, we'll continue to celebrate our diversity in the same kick-ass manner we always have.