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estiroseHad a relatively good time, despite a massive headache, some of which was because I was too hot. (Ever so brightly, I was only planning to participate in set-up and the parade, so I forgot enough water and meds.)
I've never been in a pride parade before, but ours ran smoothly. I was with my church group, and we merrily marched down one of the downtown streets. The grandstand announcer had a little problem with our statement, which was basically the first Principle ("Affirm and promote the worth and dignity of every human".) Did have to step around horse droppings at one point. Apparently the Wells Fargo Bank truck that said "live horses" really did have live horses.
After that, I ended up helping out at our booth. We had one of those things where you pulled a sucker out and got a prize. After a while, we just started handing out the prizes (wristbands). I just smiled and let everybody else explain our faith, because it's sometimes hard to explain.
Only one protester, going on about "my god is a jealous god", at the beginning of the parade route. Everybody ignored him.
The whole pride celebration was quite busy. Quite a few chains, organizations and local businesses participated, including my healthcare provider, my vision provider, my credit union, utility, and Walgreens. There were a wide variety of places to check out, though I managed to escape without too much literature and/or freebies. The only really annoying person there was someone from one of the legal organizations, who kind of had a hard time understanding that pressure tactics were a really bad thing. Oh, and as usual a lot of the food and drink was overpriced, but that's normal.
Churches were decently represented. Along the way I spotted some branch of the Lutherans, the Metro Community Church, two United Methodist groups, one spiritual group, a reform Jewish congregation, and a Independent Catholic church. Not to mention our two local Unitarian Universalist groups, one of which was mine. Also got to say hello to the wife of a lady who went to my old church, who was at the Independent Catholic booth. Sounds like my old church is becoming even more LGBT friendly (not that it wasn't before, but it's becoming official, which is a good thing as it's United Methodist and the UMC has... issues). The two other groups that meet in the same building as us, a United Church of Christ and another group, were there but I missed them.
I was there from about 9 (set-up) to just before 5 (when we finished tearing everything down), and I think that my group did a pretty good job of getting people interested in our church.
That being said, I hope that I'm up to church tomorrow. Today was tiring!
I've never been in a pride parade before, but ours ran smoothly. I was with my church group, and we merrily marched down one of the downtown streets. The grandstand announcer had a little problem with our statement, which was basically the first Principle ("Affirm and promote the worth and dignity of every human".) Did have to step around horse droppings at one point. Apparently the Wells Fargo Bank truck that said "live horses" really did have live horses.
After that, I ended up helping out at our booth. We had one of those things where you pulled a sucker out and got a prize. After a while, we just started handing out the prizes (wristbands). I just smiled and let everybody else explain our faith, because it's sometimes hard to explain.
Only one protester, going on about "my god is a jealous god", at the beginning of the parade route. Everybody ignored him.
The whole pride celebration was quite busy. Quite a few chains, organizations and local businesses participated, including my healthcare provider, my vision provider, my credit union, utility, and Walgreens. There were a wide variety of places to check out, though I managed to escape without too much literature and/or freebies. The only really annoying person there was someone from one of the legal organizations, who kind of had a hard time understanding that pressure tactics were a really bad thing. Oh, and as usual a lot of the food and drink was overpriced, but that's normal.
Churches were decently represented. Along the way I spotted some branch of the Lutherans, the Metro Community Church, two United Methodist groups, one spiritual group, a reform Jewish congregation, and a Independent Catholic church. Not to mention our two local Unitarian Universalist groups, one of which was mine. Also got to say hello to the wife of a lady who went to my old church, who was at the Independent Catholic booth. Sounds like my old church is becoming even more LGBT friendly (not that it wasn't before, but it's becoming official, which is a good thing as it's United Methodist and the UMC has... issues). The two other groups that meet in the same building as us, a United Church of Christ and another group, were there but I missed them.
I was there from about 9 (set-up) to just before 5 (when we finished tearing everything down), and I think that my group did a pretty good job of getting people interested in our church.
That being said, I hope that I'm up to church tomorrow. Today was tiring!
