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The deadliest sin of all

I know a lot of you went to Gay Pride celebrations today and I certainly don't want to piss all over your positive experiences. But, last night,

lhn pointed out something that perfectly summed up my attitude to the event: A neon sign of the word "pride" in pink underlined in rainbow.

The "i" was replaced with a mock-up of an MGD can.

After reading

bitterlawngnome's suggestion about throwing our support behind the marches that really need it, I decided that if I wasn't going to be in some small town or hostile foreign city for Pride Day, then I was interested in celebrating it at all. But, after a week of conference hosting,

monshu was looking forward to submerging himself in a sea of screaming fags, and I figured it would be boorish not to allow myself to be dragged along.

In the end, I was spared by the weather: The first rainy Pride Day I can remember in my nearly twenty years in Chicago. (There was once where we had a brief shower in the morning, but it cleared up and not a drop fell on the parade or rally.) That plus the fact that

monshu was still completely bushed from Saturday's banquet sealed the deal. Instead of a day wasted getting tanked in the hot sun, it was a day wasted watching atrocious films on television.

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I had thought about going, but I was dragging around after the huge two-beer bender I went on last night.

Really no worse than us playing WoW together for the day...

We're in a Gay/Bear guild over there, does that count??

Happy Pride - however you celebrate it!

Every day should be Pride Day!

I'm missing something, clearly, since I dunno what "MGD" is.

Consider yourself lucky! I really wish I didn't know that it stood for "Miller Genuine Draft".

It's not often I get to speculate pointlessly and show my ignorance at the same time. Well, that's not true. That happens pretty often.

Anyhow, I don't get why the sign "sums up your attitude". My guess is because it shows that the celebration is really about (or largely about) drinking (and bad drinking at that) rather than pride and other things you would druther have it be?

Is my guess vaguely right?

You kids today and your rock and roll...

More or less. Drinking seems to be the real focus these days, and I can drink more comfortably at home or in the local pub.

And unfortunately there was a LOT of public drunkenness around -- someone was even nearly passed out on the steps of my friend's apartment.

Still, there were a larger number of actual real organizations that were in the parade this year, after I bitched for years that it WAS a big commercial.

You can argue over the tie of Pride and liquor, but that merely reflects the very reality that a disproportionately large number of places for gays and lesbians ARE bars.

But nowadays there are also gay restaurants, gay gyms, and gay bookstores, not to mention gay social and professional organisations. The sponsorship reflects the fact that a disproportionate number of gays (at least among those who attend the parades) are heavy recreational drinkers.

Thanks for giving me a ring Saturday and sorry I missed y'all. Next time for sure!

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