08 Pride Post #20: Late night — last year’s Pride home movies

For the overnight shift, check out last year’s virgotext Pride extravaganza. To see every post, be sure and click the “Next Page” link.
More new Pride tomorrow!

Parade’s over

Every Pride celebration, the scheduled events portion anyway, comes to an end. The parade’s long over, the street fairs and dances wrap up, and the queers all go their separate and together ways and “regular” life commences apace.
From the blog stats, I’d say you folks enjoyed my little celebration. I’m happy you’re happy — hey, [...]

Pride Post XXI: “Stunned, the police retreated into the bar.”

Details about how the riot started vary from story to story. According to one account, a transgender woman named Sylvia Rivera threw a bottle at a police officer after being prodded by his nightstick (Duberman). Another account states that a lesbian, being brought to a patrol car through the crowd put up a struggle that [...]

Pride Post XX: Watch Us Come Get It — Yo Majesty

Yo Majesty@MySpace
Yo Majesty at AfterEllen

Pride Post XIX: “A patriot is not a weapon” — Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich
About Rich’s work, the poet W.S. Merwin has said, “All her life she has been in love with the hope of telling utter truth, and her command of language from the first has been startlingly powerful.”
Rich has received the Bollingen Prize, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the Ruth [...]

Pride Post XVIII: “”Frances Faye, gay, gay, is there another way?”

“She is one of those fortunate mortals who has rhythm
in her body and soul.”
—Irving Berlin
“It was a big deal that she was so blatant, so publicly open. We had so little. This was so precious.”
— Merrill, a fan
“I wouldn’t come to this toilet if it weren’t to see you. “
—Barbara Stanwyck
There has never been [...]

Pride Post XVII: Spawn of Pride, or — Children of Lesbians and Gays — EVERYWHERE!

© LesbianDad
The tired (but happy) subway ride home. The speculating about whether the hullabaloo was worth it for the kids: questionable; depends on the age; will probably phase in and out. Speculating on the worth for the self: are you kidding? Even if you’re so exhausted you can’t stay up late and write down all [...]

Pride Post XVI: They Don’t Own Her

Lesley Gore’s ‘official’ coming out interview with AfterEllen

Pride Post XV: We Have Our Own Month Now, You Know

Pride Post XIV: And Ye Shall Know Us by Our Trail of Gibbering Nutjobs

Saner heads weigh in on “the story.”