Gay Pride Miami Beach - 2014

Our Gay Pride celebration in SoBe will be taking place next weekend. I usually attend these just for the ambiance of being surrounded by many like-minded ppl.

Here is my take on the one last year.
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?threadid=469361


Here is my take on the April 2012 Gay Pride in Miami Beach
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/s...?t=448891&f=59

I have already gotten a T-Shirt to wear to this one. It is my Bi-Pride message.

 

Aw yay!
We had one in North Carolina not too long ago. It is such a great thing to partake in.

 

Gay Pride Miami Beach - April 13, 2014
By Shale

Early this morning there were black clouds out west and as usual with this Spring weather, concern that it would rain on our parade today. But by 10 a.m. it was clear, blue skies and I biked to South Beach, wearing my new T-shirt declaring, “Don’t Tell Me Whom to Love!”

The parade starts at noon so I got to wander around while booths were being set up. Signed a couple of petitions and added my name to some gay activist groups that I’m sure I already belong to, such as Save Dade and Equality Florida.

Also got my usual foto posing with some of the skimpily clad eye-candy that are always at such events. Saw these two guys posing with a woman so I figured they wouldn’t mind posing with an old man. (one has an older lover who was there in the background).



I saw a couple of middle-aged women who were obviously partners and got a pic of them.



Also, out on the sidewalk a couple of younger women were happy to pose together for me and they liked my T-shirt and the older of the two posed with me for their pic.



Ppl are quite accommodating with being fotografed at these events. I just tell them I want a pic for my facebook page and most don’t mind. I am likely to find pix of me on the Web taken by others eventually.

This young skater boy had an intriguing Biohazard tat on his arm so I got a pic of that. He didn’t mention being HIV Pos, said it was just a ref to his rebelliousness. He also had a radiation hazard symbol on his other arm.

 

I saw these two handsome, middle-aged men walking along hand-in-hand and asked to get their pic for which they were pleased to pose.



Came across this “out” Scorpio girl and she was pleased to let me get her pic after I showed her my own Scorpio tat.



There was a young man in briefs at one of the booths with a script tat that said “One man in his time plays many parts.” I said it sounded like Shakespeare’s comments on “The world is a stage,” and he said it was from the same piece.



IDK why, but there was something strangely appealing about a very white skinny boy in undies with suspenders.

 

This was Palm Sunday, so I guess we could expect a “loving” Jesus Freak Asswipe to show up telling us his petty, hateful god condemns us all to hell.



This was before the parade started but the street was cordoned off so a cop pulled him aside for a while, but he was let go to continue his First Amendment right to harass us from the sidewalk.



However, some of us exercised our First Amendment right to get in his face and one very large and articulate drag queen gave us a good show and him an earful of the error of his ways.

I later found out her name is Tiffany Fantasia in this foto by Steve Rothaus



Others of us were more succinct with finger gestures and me calling him an asswipe. (He complained about how intolerant we were – missing the irony of his disruptive presence at OUR parade).

Then the parade began

 

The parade was the usual, with everyone from gay friendly businesses, to gay advocacy organizations participating. Ppl were in various costume and drag and lots of buff young men in brief undies or bikinis.







And of course there were the Grand Marshalls, Kenny Ortega and Gloria Estefan.

 

There were the legacy couples, those who have been together as long or longer than the typical heterosexual married couples in the U.S. where some religious or social conservatives wish to continue denying them legal marriage. However, state by state this discrimination is being successfully challenged as unconstitutional for denying equal access. Unfortunately, with the current U.S. Supreme Court being either bought off by moneyed interests or being replaced by alien pod ppl, we cannot expect them to do the right thing as they did with interracial marriage in June 1967.

 

There were a few other activities going on, not particularly gay related, such as this Bondage couple in the parade.



Or, the group pushing for Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016. That would make Bill the …



A Horseman with a Pride Flag


Even a Na'vi showed up.



It was a very enjoyable day and the weather stayed nice for the entire parade - tho there was an afternoon summer deluge shortly after, at about 2:40.

 

Fantastic Pics, Thank You Shale...:sunny:



Cheers Glen.

 

Awesome, those pics are amazing.


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Really awesome pics, Shale! I think it's high time you posted your work in a book (or even Kindle). This is important LGBTQ history you are so generously offering to the world. Go for it, dude. :sunny:

QP

 

Made me feel like i was there

 

What a cutie!

 

I was there