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Pride 2007
Jun. 17th, 2007 09:52 amWell, Friday we went to the Trans Picnic. It was in a park across the street from the Kaiser clinics I use most of the time.
It was more genderqueers, trans and friends/allies, but hey.
It was nice, but I spent too much time on my feet.
Yesterday we went to Pride prpoer dwn on the waterfront. We were planning to go to the Trans march (first ever sort in "in conjunction with but seperate from" the annual Dyke march). But Stacy and I were both half dead but 4:30 so we went home.
Had fun though. I got to wear a skirt Lin had found for me for the first time, and it looked nice (I'll post a picture later). Ammong the high spots of the day:
Standing in line with a women with a kid in a stroller and her daughter standing next to her. The daughter made a point of talking to me and telling me I was a girl.
At one booth a couple of people congratulated me on my show the night before. I was all "Say what?" Seems they thought I was a person who performs in the drag show at Embers!!!!
I got a bigger Pride flag. One big enough to stick on a bike flag thingie when I get one for my bike. Now I just need a Leather Pride and TG Pride flag to go with it. :-)
I got a few buttons (gee, big surprise), One says "SLUT in big red letters on a black background (It pays to advertise). I didn't wear that one though. I also got "Charm School Dropout", "I can't even think straight" and "Second Class Citizen".
That last was a freebie from one group. They also have "friend of a second class citizen". I figure I qualify as do lots of folks I know.
Saw lots of fun t-shirts and stuff. SMYRC (Sexual Minorities Youth Resource Center, pronounced "smirk") had several good ones, but not in my size. The standard:
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[X] Fuck You
But they also had "My boyfriend has a vagina" and "My girlfriend has a penis". And "I support gender neutral bathrooms".
A new vendor has a shirt I ewant, but I'll have to order, since I didn't like the one oin my size. His shirts are *embroidered*, and I want one that has:
"Auntie Em: Hate You, Hate Kansas, Taking The Dog -Dorthy" in pink on a black shirt.
Another vendor had baseball caps. *lots* of them. "Master", "Slave", "puppy", "Got Fur?", and a host of others too numerous to list. I will mention a few outstanding ones. Several varieties that said "Pierced". All of which have a piecing on the hat brim!
And "CIA". "DEA", "Secret Service"...
What I got was one that says "Pervert" and another that says "Girl over a pink & black strip bar with a heart (sort of like one of the take offs on the leather pride flag)
I flirted shamelessly with a few guys. For example, one place was selling the "fancy" cotton briefs (you know, the colored wones with the "seams" done in contradting colors. They had a male and a female modelling them (the girl had on a matching t-shirt).
When they asked if I was interested in anything, I looked the male model over and asked "Is he for sale?"
He got a grin and asked "the boss" if they had a rate sheet. :-)
Geeked out for a bit with a cute (if far too young for me) guy in a fancy "duster" type coat and several buttons (which were what got the conversation started). He showed me the t-shirt he had under the coat "Shirt of Invisibility +2" I told him of several of InstantAttutides fun t-shirts.
I'm still kinda sore from yesterday, but since I replenished my cash supply (I'd stupidly gone there with *way* too little cash) I can pick up a few things I had to pass up yesterday. Plus, the Pride Parade is today, and I can try to get pictures.
I recharged my camera last night and hopefully the battery will last. I'm not worried about menory as the card will hold over a thousand pics.
Oh yeah, to recharge my wallet, I went to the store I live next to last night. Still in full Brooke mode. Nobody seemed to notice. Even a clerk I've dealt with a few times.
Definitely beginning to think that if I didn't have the facial and body hair to deal with, I'd spend a lot more time as Brooke.
It was more genderqueers, trans and friends/allies, but hey.
It was nice, but I spent too much time on my feet.
Yesterday we went to Pride prpoer dwn on the waterfront. We were planning to go to the Trans march (first ever sort in "in conjunction with but seperate from" the annual Dyke march). But Stacy and I were both half dead but 4:30 so we went home.
Had fun though. I got to wear a skirt Lin had found for me for the first time, and it looked nice (I'll post a picture later). Ammong the high spots of the day:
Standing in line with a women with a kid in a stroller and her daughter standing next to her. The daughter made a point of talking to me and telling me I was a girl.
At one booth a couple of people congratulated me on my show the night before. I was all "Say what?" Seems they thought I was a person who performs in the drag show at Embers!!!!
I got a bigger Pride flag. One big enough to stick on a bike flag thingie when I get one for my bike. Now I just need a Leather Pride and TG Pride flag to go with it. :-)
I got a few buttons (gee, big surprise), One says "SLUT in big red letters on a black background (It pays to advertise). I didn't wear that one though. I also got "Charm School Dropout", "I can't even think straight" and "Second Class Citizen".
That last was a freebie from one group. They also have "friend of a second class citizen". I figure I qualify as do lots of folks I know.
Saw lots of fun t-shirts and stuff. SMYRC (Sexual Minorities Youth Resource Center, pronounced "smirk") had several good ones, but not in my size. The standard:
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[X] Fuck You
But they also had "My boyfriend has a vagina" and "My girlfriend has a penis". And "I support gender neutral bathrooms".
A new vendor has a shirt I ewant, but I'll have to order, since I didn't like the one oin my size. His shirts are *embroidered*, and I want one that has:
"Auntie Em: Hate You, Hate Kansas, Taking The Dog -Dorthy" in pink on a black shirt.
Another vendor had baseball caps. *lots* of them. "Master", "Slave", "puppy", "Got Fur?", and a host of others too numerous to list. I will mention a few outstanding ones. Several varieties that said "Pierced". All of which have a piecing on the hat brim!
And "CIA". "DEA", "Secret Service"...
What I got was one that says "Pervert" and another that says "Girl over a pink & black strip bar with a heart (sort of like one of the take offs on the leather pride flag)
I flirted shamelessly with a few guys. For example, one place was selling the "fancy" cotton briefs (you know, the colored wones with the "seams" done in contradting colors. They had a male and a female modelling them (the girl had on a matching t-shirt).
When they asked if I was interested in anything, I looked the male model over and asked "Is he for sale?"
He got a grin and asked "the boss" if they had a rate sheet. :-)
Geeked out for a bit with a cute (if far too young for me) guy in a fancy "duster" type coat and several buttons (which were what got the conversation started). He showed me the t-shirt he had under the coat "Shirt of Invisibility +2" I told him of several of InstantAttutides fun t-shirts.
I'm still kinda sore from yesterday, but since I replenished my cash supply (I'd stupidly gone there with *way* too little cash) I can pick up a few things I had to pass up yesterday. Plus, the Pride Parade is today, and I can try to get pictures.
I recharged my camera last night and hopefully the battery will last. I'm not worried about menory as the card will hold over a thousand pics.
Oh yeah, to recharge my wallet, I went to the store I live next to last night. Still in full Brooke mode. Nobody seemed to notice. Even a clerk I've dealt with a few times.
Definitely beginning to think that if I didn't have the facial and body hair to deal with, I'd spend a lot more time as Brooke.
