T-shirts and signs displayed messages intended to titillate, amuse, and educate. Most of the people in the parade, including Olympia Dukakis and Chaz Bono, were wearing ordinary street clothes. or a queen or a fairy princess.īut there were also hundreds of people in uniform: police officers, soldiers, cheerleaders, fire fighters.
On this day, a common man with regal aspirations could be a king. There was the requisite leather and feathers, of course, but also gentleladies in antebellum gowns with hoop skirts, rainbow painted faces, fairy wings, and Louis XIV wigs. In general, though, the costumes were ludicrous, not lascivious. There was the one zaftig woman riding a motorcycle whose abundantly tattooed, pendulous breasts rested on the handlebars. And one guy had a toy and a feather cunningly accessorizing his penis. Yes, there was the guy in chaps-only chaps. It was really less debauchery and more Halloween. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.” ~Paul Newman From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
