Pride

Yesterday was our Pride celebration. I have been to Pride in Portland and in San Francisco, but never here in southern Oregon. I knew it wouldn't be near as large or exciting as the others, but I figured it was worth going anyhow. I signed up to work the democrat table and stump for the Stonewall Caucus.

It. Was. Boring.
Seriously. . . Kelly came with me, even though she isn't too political (she wasn't registered to vote *gasp* but we changed that quickly) anyway, the crowd. . . if you could call it that, was meager. The few outgoing and interesting people I met had come down from Eugene. I was pretty bummed.

There was a nice guy running the booth with me, who was curious why there was a lack of male presence at Pride, and why it was that there was what appeared to be predominately a lesbian culture here in southern Oregon, instead of a gay male culture. I noticed the same thing, all I can guess is that its even more hostile towards gay men then it is to lesbians. Hell it is taking me this long to finally be completely open and out, I can't imagine if I was a male. We discussed many reasons for this, personally, I think it has to do with gender expression. It is far easier for our society to accept a masculine woman then a feminine man. I think at least. . .

Kelly wasn't feeling well, put together with an obnoxious old friend pestering her, so she went home early. I was looking forward to the dance later, but. . . she decided not to go. I went alone, it sucked.

So much for exciting Pride event. Maybe Eugene will be better

K