Pride Month

[spectrumthreads]

In honor of Pride Month, are any of you women going to a pride event? Gay, Pan, Bi, Ally - all are welcome! respond with where you're going to celebrate pride!

I'll be in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 22nd!

 

[693987]

I'm too uncomfortable with large amounts of people to go to Pride events anymore. Which kind of sucks. I used to attend, but I'm not able to handle crowds as well as I did when younger. My nearest metropolitan city has a pretty huge Pride event. I'm on the West Coast in the USA.

Pansexual and gender fluid are my self-chosen labels

 

[spectrumthreads]

I'm too uncomfortable with large amounts of people to go to Pride events anymore. Which kind of sucks. I used to attend, but I'm not able to handle crowds as well as I did when younger. My nearest metropolitan city has a pretty huge Pride event. I'm on the West Coast in the USA.

Pansexual and gender fluid are my self-chosen labels

Maybe you can find a smaller community event - Pride doesn't just mean huge parties I'm sure there are others who don't like huge crowds - however you choose to celebrate, Happy Pride my friend!

 

[693987]

Maybe you can find a smaller community event - Pride doesn't just mean huge parties I'm sure there are others who don't like huge crowds - however you choose to celebrate, Happy Pride my friend!

Oh, I know there are smaller events. If I were to go out somewhere to celebrate Pride, I would want it to be the big parade and dancing in a fountain with cute people who are decked out in rainbows and the whole nine yards

Happy Pride to you too!

 

[Tight_N_Juicy]

While I fully support pride events and hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable time at them, I don't go.

I can barely handle going to the grocery store. I know I couldn't handle even a small event of whatever type.

I'm not into celebrations in general anyway. I don't celebrate holidays, I don't do anything on my birthday other than spend time with my family. It's more a day for my parents to celebrate anyway in my opinion. I don't even remember being born. They remember every detail of that day. I let them celebrate because I know what it means to *them*.

I dunno. I just don't get into stuff.

 

[spectrumthreads]

While I fully support pride events and hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable time at them, I don't go.

I can barely handle going to the grocery store. I know I couldn't handle even a small event of whatever type.

I'm not into celebrations in general anyway. I don't celebrate holidays, I don't do anything on my birthday other than spend time with my family. It's more a day for my parents to celebrate anyway in my opinion. I don't even remember being born. They remember every detail of that day. I let them celebrate because I know what it means to *them*.

I dunno. I just don't get into stuff.

I understand - one of my favorite pride month activities (really anytime, but especially June ) is being in rainbow underwear, tunes blasting, dancing around the house (ok ok, more like cleaning, but who’s counting) you do you babe!

 

[Scarletbegonia]

I’m running a pride month special at work.
I’ll likely attend part of the Pride Day events on 6/16.

 

[MickeyLee]

I'm too uncomfortable with large amounts of people to go to Pride events anymore. Which kind of sucks. I used to attend, but I'm not able to handle crowds as well as I did when younger. My nearest metropolitan city has a pretty huge Pride event. I'm on the West Coast in the USA.

Pansexual and gender fluid are my self-chosen labels

Long time back, in the wee ML days one of the cable networks had a queer comedy show.. kinda like Kids in the Hall only hella queer. There was one skit about Pride week and differently abled Pridesters. I vaguely remember the idea was home pride with marching treadmills.

Damn.. Lea DeLaria was on the show.

Don't recall much else other than a skit with DeLaria and another comedian trying to out Butch each other in the park. Both falling into a cooing mess when a puppy walked by.

I need to do some net sleuthing

 

[MickeyLee]

Oh!

Totally doing Pride. I have Xanex for the dealing with the crowds and SPF 110 for the sun. Every year I get a few more freckles but it's worth it.

For true the idea of that many people makes me wanna hide in a real closet. I block everything else out and concentrate on the people I go with.

There is always heaps of eye-candy to keep me distracted from an inpending freak outs.

I'm self identify as ridiculously queer with every aspect of my being

 

[Tattooed Goddess]

Social anxiety nightmare for me. But my spawn is a gold star lesbian so I take her every year anyway. This year I'm having her dad drop her off for a while. I just can't stand the sun and heat.

 

[Enid]

There's a pride fest 6/15 at a park in my new neighborhood. I might go. Like many here, I don't like crowds, but it would be nice to check out the community by the new place.

And there's always valium and SPF & water

 

[Scarletbegonia]

I decided years ago that when it came to showing up, standing up or speaking out, my personal comfort needed to take a flying leap.

We have an administration shoving women back a century. We have an administration willing to return to the days when gay and trans clubs were raided with regularity.
We have a SCOTUS that says wedding cakes are high art and a baker can publicly refuse service based on who his clients are intrinsically.

Me being uncomfortable is so minor to having a nation worthy of being among world leadership, again.


However, I did overhear a guy complain that he didn’t want to go because he’d get too tired.
We were in the cheap gym.
(Face palm)

 

[Tattooed Goddess]

I have a severe UV allergy that makes me very sick if in in the sun longer than about 10 minutes. Standing in the sun for hours isn't much of an option for me.

 

[spectrumthreads]

Pride party at the bar! Or your place!

 

[Tight_N_Juicy]

I decided years ago that when it came to showing up, standing up or speaking out, my personal comfort needed to take a flying leap.

We have an administration shoving women back a century. We have an administration willing to return to the days when gay and trans clubs were raided with regularity.
We have a SCOTUS that says wedding cakes are high art and a baker can publicly refuse service based on who his clients are intrinsically.

Me being uncomfortable is so minor to having a nation worthy of being among world leadership, again.


However, I did overhear a guy complain that he didn’t want to go because he’d get too tired.
We were in the cheap gym.
(Face palm)

This is a great point. I do feel like a selfish asshole for it, but I still don't think I could make it this year.

 

[AlteredEgo]

I don't do pride events. I used to. I feel very strongly that my life has been severely negatively impacted by homophobia. So, I'll buy something, or feed runaways, or something like that. But I can't go to pride events. I'm in a mixed orientation marriage, and find those events emotionally triggering. I don't even like seeing the flags. So, I'd rather do community service or spend money.

 

[Tattooed Goddess]

I'm raising a gay kid in a loving home. I'm doing my job to contribute positively to the cause.

 

[Enid]

I have a severe UV allergy that makes me very sick if in in the sun longer than about 10 minutes. Standing in the sun for hours isn't much of an option for me.

I had a medication reaction when I was young that was like this. Basically, I had spent about 30 minutes in Texas summer sun about 10 - 10:30 am with SPF 30. Not too long after, I developed boils on my shoulders, arms, legs (they were so gross, like a forest of blisters, blisters on blisters). I also threw up for the rest of the day. It was awful.

Now I'm just very sun sensitive, I need very high SPF and to not stay too long out. I'm not on that medication anymore thank goodness.

I do think I'm going to that park pride fest, it's within walking distance from my new place so it is very close. Though I think would probably Uber over there with my sis in order to not worry about overheating or parking.

Also, I need some positive energy in my life right now. It is officially a year since mom died June 4, and while I'm very sad about it, my sister is crying CONSTANTLY. Always. She's crying right now and we are at a graduation party for our cousin's kid. While I COMPLETELY understand, it is starting to get so emotionally draining that I tense up when I hear her sniffling and whimpering. Maybe it's that it's happening in public so much (and I hate that, I'm very private about crying). Maybe it's that I absorb her energy so when she is whacked out, crazy crying, whatever, I take on that emotional experience and I am just so motherfucking tired. I can't take it.

I need a joyful event, something that helps me breathe again.

 

[MickeyLee]

I walk my dogs with a sunbrella. I'll be taking my brella with me to Pride. Goth throw back!

Ra isn't too keen of my pasty hide. Sun exposure ends in sunburn, freckles and heart break. Crowds are emotionally draining. There is always someone too close. Everything is too loud. And dear lard, the combined funk of 1000 bodies worth of personal scents and body odor. Sensory overload.

There needs to be an introvert, asocial Pride. We all show up at the library and quietly read books on historical figures in the LGBT+ movement and queer theory.

 

[Tattooed Goddess]

Mickey pegged it. The smell of the people especially in the heat. Well it was nauseating. There's no place to sit and I can't do crowds. I dont enjoy concerts at all.