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sorcyressToday was my third pride! I am realizing I never got around to posting all the bits from my second pride, last weekend, so let's do that first:
Pride moments and memories:
Arrived at Copley, where everyone was gathering, about 20 minutes before parade start. Decided to walk down the parade route for a while. Kept having little happy flashes and tear-ups at all the queers and their joy
Very nearly first in the parade was a group carrying huge poster/signs with photos and names of the trans women killed in the last year and I took my hat off and put my hand on my heart in respect and bawled
I didn't expect seeing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to hit me as hard as it did, but it hit me so hard and I cried so much I couldn't talk but one of them told me she liked my eye makeup (!!!!!!!!!!!) and two of them gave me stickers and gosh, I wonder if they have room for little enby altar boys
(last crying one) There was a small group from Girl Scouts USA and I put my hand up and started reciting the Promise and one of the moms came over and pressed a rainbow trefoil pin into my hand and that was so good, I am so proud to be a girl scout (and yeah, I started crying and couldn't finish reciting)
There was the mbta group and a couple people near me started chanting "gay train gay train" and then the group pointed behind them and started chanting back "gay bus gay bus" and we all cheered and chanted for the gay bus!!!!
(I also looked innocent and got like....at least five of them to give me rainbow flag T logo pins which fuccckkk yeah)
With one of the political/union groups I saw Brenda, who has been coming as a silent rep to all our union meetings and she gave me a big congratulations hug
A random person looked at me as I was walking and said something like "wow, you look so cool!" and it was delightful
A couple teenagers from the Boston Children's Chorus were SO EXCITED that I had a pirate flag with my trans flag and sang some "Pirate's Life For Me"
I can't remember which group it was, but a mask-wearing teen with a nonbinary flag bee-lined out of their group directly to me in order to hand me a sticker of a trans flag shark
I cheered SO LOUD AND HARD for all the kinksters. In the rubber/latex group there was a pony player who looked incredible and I was cheering and blowing kisses and they came over and handed me a couple little brick keychains
I also liked howling with the puppyplay folk
I asked and received hugs from people wearing the following shirts: Free Dad Hugs, Free Mom Hugs, and Free Dyke Hugs
All three were really good hugs
I whooped it up real good for the MTA, fuck yeah for all the unions but ESPECIALLY my parent union
Senator Ed Markey was actually there with his group, wearing a rainbow lei and kinda shimmying around, it was very cute and the old lady protesters next to me yelled "way to go Eddie!" at him
I think I got three condoms? Which is pretty good. One of them is advertising for the local weekly Rocky Horror!
Oh yeah, and I got a whole goodie bag as well from the Boston Health Commission
I did pretty well with not getting useless plastic tat, I think I only got one thing I completely don't need
The parade had all the really corporate groups at the end, which was fantastic, because by the time they showed up I was freezing and didn't want to wait anymore and so just walked counter to the parade route to quickly see everyone before heading home
On the train home, a teenager and their mom asked if they could give me a bracelet. It's very cute and says "love" in plastic beads
***
Today was Providence Pride! It was a very different experience from Boston Pride, but still really wonderful and valuable! The biggest differences were a) the weather was the _polar opposite_ and I had to worry about heatstroke instead of my fingers going numb and b) I was attending with people instead of alone.
The latter made it much less of a quasi-spiritual experience. I only cried once, and only a very little bit, not proper sobbing --it was when I found the Mama Dragons group, who had a big sign at their booth that read "Fight like a MOTHER for trans rights". They are such a good group! Fuck yeah!
I think the real thing is that when I am with other people I am a somewhat different person than when I'm alone. I'm compelled to be more stable, which is mostly a good thing, but also just...I dunno. I have to be around only people I feel very safe around in order to be my proper weirdest, or I have to be around total strangers who I will never meet again.
But the people I were with were so good! Tuesday and I went to pride together, and it was very fun to go to A Queer Event as a unit. SamSam was passing through on their own adventures, so we found them soon after we arrived and the three of us spent about fifteen minutes sitting in some cozy shade behind a bush, which was almost pleasant weather-wise. After they went off on their next bit of biking, Tuesday and I met up with a friend of kers called Chris who ke knows through Tech House and Puzzling.
Tuesday and Chris and I spent most of the afternoon together --probably from like 3 until they had to catch a train at nearly 8. We toured some booths, ate from some food trucks, sat in the shade, and toured more booths. I think by the end of it we had probably seen all the booths at the little pride fair, although it was laid out a little roundabout in a way that might've caused us to miss a few. I got some nice bits of swag, including a very explicitly queer patch from GSSNE (Girl Scouts Southeastern New England) and an even better rainbow fan than the one I got last week (this one has PoC and trans stripes, the other just has the core six).
Chris turned out to be very fun to talk to, and we definitely had a few moments of "oof, are you me?!" as we chatted about various forms of sluttery and other fun. It was also neat to get to *chinhands* as they shared various forms of college drama with Tuesday, and I could learn some secret scandals from my partner's life before me. I am a simple man with simple pleasures!
Attending the fair was lovely, but as mentioned it was _brutal_ hot and bright out. I realized eventually that part of the problem was that my Very Cute Sunglasses are just slightly off prescription-wise from my regular sunglasses --not enough to be an immediate problem, but if I am wearing them for five hours straight, it starts to make my body unhappy. I went in the mist tent for a bit to cool down, and then we sat somewhere shaded enough that I could swap out for my regular glasses and take an ibuprofen, all of which helped. On the plus side, neither Tuesday nor I appear to have any sunburn! We brought our own sunscreen, but I did heartily approve of the multiple (mostly mom-like) people at the event who had bottles of their own that they were offering to everyone.
Chris had to catch a train, so they couldn't join me and Tuesday for the parade, which happens after the fair in PVD. We missed the very beginning, but caught most of it, and did lots of cheering and whooping and the like. I had happy screams for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence again (although apparently I have a much less strong reaction to them when they are in short cute sun-dresses as opposed to their full nun robes). We ogled some pole dancers doing good work, and very much enjoyed a local horror group who were strutting around kinkily while wearing very little clothing.
I also howled real good for the puppy players, and when they stopped for a little bit just in front of us, I wound up giving one of them a bunch of scritches and making sure he'd been drinking water and telling him he was a good boy. I have known for a long time that I really enjoy interacting with pups, and I wish I had more excuses to hang with them. Maybe I should try and go back to Frolicon some year?
The city was chockablock full of hot queers, and it was delightful. That's my favourite part of any pride, just heaps of little positive interactions with My Community. Smiles and compliments and blown kisses and lusty stares and all having a very wonderful time!
Happy Pride, y'all!
~Sor
MOOP!
Pride moments and memories:
Arrived at Copley, where everyone was gathering, about 20 minutes before parade start. Decided to walk down the parade route for a while. Kept having little happy flashes and tear-ups at all the queers and their joy
Very nearly first in the parade was a group carrying huge poster/signs with photos and names of the trans women killed in the last year and I took my hat off and put my hand on my heart in respect and bawled
I didn't expect seeing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to hit me as hard as it did, but it hit me so hard and I cried so much I couldn't talk but one of them told me she liked my eye makeup (!!!!!!!!!!!) and two of them gave me stickers and gosh, I wonder if they have room for little enby altar boys
(last crying one) There was a small group from Girl Scouts USA and I put my hand up and started reciting the Promise and one of the moms came over and pressed a rainbow trefoil pin into my hand and that was so good, I am so proud to be a girl scout (and yeah, I started crying and couldn't finish reciting)
There was the mbta group and a couple people near me started chanting "gay train gay train" and then the group pointed behind them and started chanting back "gay bus gay bus" and we all cheered and chanted for the gay bus!!!!
(I also looked innocent and got like....at least five of them to give me rainbow flag T logo pins which fuccckkk yeah)
With one of the political/union groups I saw Brenda, who has been coming as a silent rep to all our union meetings and she gave me a big congratulations hug
A random person looked at me as I was walking and said something like "wow, you look so cool!" and it was delightful
A couple teenagers from the Boston Children's Chorus were SO EXCITED that I had a pirate flag with my trans flag and sang some "Pirate's Life For Me"
I can't remember which group it was, but a mask-wearing teen with a nonbinary flag bee-lined out of their group directly to me in order to hand me a sticker of a trans flag shark
I cheered SO LOUD AND HARD for all the kinksters. In the rubber/latex group there was a pony player who looked incredible and I was cheering and blowing kisses and they came over and handed me a couple little brick keychains
I also liked howling with the puppyplay folk
I asked and received hugs from people wearing the following shirts: Free Dad Hugs, Free Mom Hugs, and Free Dyke Hugs
All three were really good hugs
I whooped it up real good for the MTA, fuck yeah for all the unions but ESPECIALLY my parent union
Senator Ed Markey was actually there with his group, wearing a rainbow lei and kinda shimmying around, it was very cute and the old lady protesters next to me yelled "way to go Eddie!" at him
I think I got three condoms? Which is pretty good. One of them is advertising for the local weekly Rocky Horror!
Oh yeah, and I got a whole goodie bag as well from the Boston Health Commission
I did pretty well with not getting useless plastic tat, I think I only got one thing I completely don't need
The parade had all the really corporate groups at the end, which was fantastic, because by the time they showed up I was freezing and didn't want to wait anymore and so just walked counter to the parade route to quickly see everyone before heading home
On the train home, a teenager and their mom asked if they could give me a bracelet. It's very cute and says "love" in plastic beads
***
Today was Providence Pride! It was a very different experience from Boston Pride, but still really wonderful and valuable! The biggest differences were a) the weather was the _polar opposite_ and I had to worry about heatstroke instead of my fingers going numb and b) I was attending with people instead of alone.
The latter made it much less of a quasi-spiritual experience. I only cried once, and only a very little bit, not proper sobbing --it was when I found the Mama Dragons group, who had a big sign at their booth that read "Fight like a MOTHER for trans rights". They are such a good group! Fuck yeah!
I think the real thing is that when I am with other people I am a somewhat different person than when I'm alone. I'm compelled to be more stable, which is mostly a good thing, but also just...I dunno. I have to be around only people I feel very safe around in order to be my proper weirdest, or I have to be around total strangers who I will never meet again.
But the people I were with were so good! Tuesday and I went to pride together, and it was very fun to go to A Queer Event as a unit. SamSam was passing through on their own adventures, so we found them soon after we arrived and the three of us spent about fifteen minutes sitting in some cozy shade behind a bush, which was almost pleasant weather-wise. After they went off on their next bit of biking, Tuesday and I met up with a friend of kers called Chris who ke knows through Tech House and Puzzling.
Tuesday and Chris and I spent most of the afternoon together --probably from like 3 until they had to catch a train at nearly 8. We toured some booths, ate from some food trucks, sat in the shade, and toured more booths. I think by the end of it we had probably seen all the booths at the little pride fair, although it was laid out a little roundabout in a way that might've caused us to miss a few. I got some nice bits of swag, including a very explicitly queer patch from GSSNE (Girl Scouts Southeastern New England) and an even better rainbow fan than the one I got last week (this one has PoC and trans stripes, the other just has the core six).
Chris turned out to be very fun to talk to, and we definitely had a few moments of "oof, are you me?!" as we chatted about various forms of sluttery and other fun. It was also neat to get to *chinhands* as they shared various forms of college drama with Tuesday, and I could learn some secret scandals from my partner's life before me. I am a simple man with simple pleasures!
Attending the fair was lovely, but as mentioned it was _brutal_ hot and bright out. I realized eventually that part of the problem was that my Very Cute Sunglasses are just slightly off prescription-wise from my regular sunglasses --not enough to be an immediate problem, but if I am wearing them for five hours straight, it starts to make my body unhappy. I went in the mist tent for a bit to cool down, and then we sat somewhere shaded enough that I could swap out for my regular glasses and take an ibuprofen, all of which helped. On the plus side, neither Tuesday nor I appear to have any sunburn! We brought our own sunscreen, but I did heartily approve of the multiple (mostly mom-like) people at the event who had bottles of their own that they were offering to everyone.
Chris had to catch a train, so they couldn't join me and Tuesday for the parade, which happens after the fair in PVD. We missed the very beginning, but caught most of it, and did lots of cheering and whooping and the like. I had happy screams for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence again (although apparently I have a much less strong reaction to them when they are in short cute sun-dresses as opposed to their full nun robes). We ogled some pole dancers doing good work, and very much enjoyed a local horror group who were strutting around kinkily while wearing very little clothing.
I also howled real good for the puppy players, and when they stopped for a little bit just in front of us, I wound up giving one of them a bunch of scritches and making sure he'd been drinking water and telling him he was a good boy. I have known for a long time that I really enjoy interacting with pups, and I wish I had more excuses to hang with them. Maybe I should try and go back to Frolicon some year?
The city was chockablock full of hot queers, and it was delightful. That's my favourite part of any pride, just heaps of little positive interactions with My Community. Smiles and compliments and blown kisses and lusty stares and all having a very wonderful time!
Happy Pride, y'all!
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2025-06-22 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2025-06-22 09:55 pm (UTC)Aw yeah, bracelets! I came out of Pride this year with four different beaded bracelets.
I love the Sisters.
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on 2025-06-23 05:19 pm (UTC)