Pride Parade Was A Blast

The party is over. Now I am exhausted and feeling withdraw. I had a blast at this year’s Pride Celebration. The festival pretty much bring everybody out, because I have been seeing everybody during the pride, many of them I have not seen for a long time. The climax is definitely the Pride Parade on Sunday. Even it was a little overcastted in the morning, huge crowd already started to gather in downtown waiting for the parade to begin. I started to get excited even before I reached to the staging area. Stephen and I have been on Tita Aida‘s "San Francisco LGBT Pride Theme Float" for the past few years. This year is no exception. Because this year’s theme is "United by Pride, Bound for Equality," our float is a giant wedding cake (at around 1:08 mark in this video clip) with a big heart on top. It turns out to be a broken heart—half of the heart fell of the cake during the parade. It’s kinda funny, I hope nobody noticed it. While we were preparing to leave, Stephen and I took a picture with the one and only fabulous Margaret Cho. Since our float is the #7 in the parade, almost there was no backup at all. That means our float moving really fast from start to finish, perhaps even faster than a MUNI bus. We were dancing, laughing, singing, and cheering. What a great time! After we finished the parade, I got myself a giant yellow balloon jelly fish. It can be seen from far away, and becomes a perfect symbol when I was trying to meet up with other friends on the phone: "Do you see the big yellow jelly fish? I am under the jelly fish!" Worked every time like a charm! There is a sea of people over there, so we have to be creative! This year’s pride seems quite timid compared to the past. I even see fewer naked people than Bay to Breakers. Perhaps I didn’t stay at Civic Center for too long enough.   Do I really have to wait for another year for this to happen all over again?