How many PRIDEs have you been to?

[TickTockMan]

I go to Capitol PRIDE and once helped on the board in Salem, OR.

I go to NW PRIDE in Portland, OR when I can afford it.

I have tried to attend PRIDE in Lincoln City, OR, but have never found it.

I attended Las Vegas PRIDE in Las Vegas, NV in 2015. By far the best PRIDE I have been to.



How many different PRIDEs have you been to?

 

[mikey3000]

I have been going for the past 23 years, sometimes to one event or more likely two or three events in different cities, per year. This year will be four: Buffalo NY, Niagara, Hamilton and Toronto. I volunteer my time to staff Bisexual tables and information booths for my Bi community.

 

[72-Jay]

Been to PrideFest in:
Denver CO (6 times (11 if you count going both days of a 2-day festival as separate))
Boulder CO (4 times)

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Would love to go to others...

 

[TickTockMan]

Would love to go to others...

I highly recommend Las Vegas, NV's and Portland, OR's.


Las Vegas' is the most friendly I have ever been to and with the hottest guys. Portland's is by far the largest I have been to.



With model and porn star Topher Dimaggio. Sorry I don't know how to flip the pic.

A booth with good looking guys.

The next two are not from PRIDE, but they were at PRIDE as entertainment.

My "smile" sucks.

 

[eastofeden]

I never actually saw the parade...had to serve beer at the party afterward for my bar in a booth a couple times I think...

I got out of it by "volunteering" to work in the bar that day...LOL...took them years to figure out I hated he event and was glad for the excuse not to attend. I wouldn't admit it for a long time.

I hope to avoid them completely for the rest of my life.....

 

[TickTockMan]

I hope to avoid them completely for the rest of my life.....

They are not for everyone.


PRIDE is the only place I have been flirted with. It is also where I usually hear how fat and ugly I am. It is even worse now that I have to use a mobility scooter. People always seem to think I use the scooter because I am fat. They never consider it is because I got hurt at work.

 

[Kahaih]

^ When did you change your name? Was there an announcement?

 

[TickTockMan]

^ When did you change your name? Was there an announcement?

I asked to have it changed a few days ago. When I reached 10,000 posts. I didn't think it mattered, so I don't know if people realize it or not.

 

[Kahaih]

^ I'll accept that as your official announcement.

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I've never been to a Pride event of any sort. I don't like a carnival atmosphere, and I have never understood the attraction of parades.

I have to confess, though, I suppose, that I don't like cities in general. They are such lonely places – so many people that none of them matter.

 

[medic1]

In my younger day's studying and living in London i went every year. Now that i am back here in Scotland, i have only been to one.

I found it to be way to much about the money and entertainment. As i said in another thread, i have some older gay friends who went to some of the first gay prides in London.

A very brave thing to do back then, their reason was political.

 

[TickTockMan]

II found it to be way to much about the money and entertainment. As i said in another thread, i have some older gay friends who went to some of the first gay prides in London.

A very brave thing to do back then, their reason was political.

I agree about it being about money. A big part of why I stopped helping with my local PRIDE was because I felt it was a private party for the local gay "in" people. Outsiders were not really wanted, but they wanted your money to pay for the event.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I have been to three or four, in Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska, and Alabama.

It is a certainty I have not enjoyed any of them, but I did learn from them. I dislike raunchy public attire, don't "get" drag queens, find rainbow wigs just silly, and question the merit of parades when no one is attending and supporting from the public.

But, they are not all like that. And just because I don't like showboating or diva behavior doesn't mean it isn't someone else's legitimate expression. What I DO take away from the Pride parade is that gays and lesbians and all the rest are diverse and every one deserves the right to be and the right to pursue happiness. More importantly, just because the crowds may be small or negligibie doesn't mean there isn't some kid or teen watching on the 5:00 news and seeing that he is not alone, all the more for the kid who may feel even more isolated due to gender identity or other ostracizing problems.

Whereas I get little more from a Pride week than a physical reminder of who is out there, another gets inspiration, courage, consolation, friendship, or just fun.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Nope, never been to one even though I lived in areas where they have happened. I am not a fan of huge crowds or anything, so that's part of the reason I've never been.

 

[hornyalltime]

None but I would LOVE to go to one... but I don't have that perfect chiseled body so I would probably have a bad time there. Oh well, I would ogle the GOD-like muscular bodies though.

 

[EJMichaels]

DC and NYC various years, mostly in the 1980s-90s, usually as a parade participant with a BDSM group. In the early years, the one in DC was just a block party, not big enough for a parade. My outstanding memory was the year a men's leather club asked me and my roommate to carry two of their banners because they had lost too many members to AIDS to have enough to do it. My photo ended up in the Washington Post, an occurrence my mother had warned me to avoid, but she didn't notice. My former girlfriend, Brenda Howard, has been called the "Mother of Pride" and credited with the idea of having a Pride Day on June 28, plus a Pride Week.

 

[DantheManFL]

Quite a few actually. I have to say Toronto is my favorite so far.

I was in NYC for a combination of the Gay Games and Stonewall 25 Anniversary. I think there were close to a million people there.

Here in Orlando, I was on the board that created "Come Out With Pride" to coincide with National Coming Out Day - Oct. 11th. It's grown every year, I think last figures I heard were 150,000 in attendance.

http://comeoutwithpride.com/

 

[guyfromNY]

I went to the one in Manhattan about 10 years ago, but I would never go again. It was probably the loneliest experience of my life. I didn't have anyone to go with me, and I just stood there watching all of these floats and marchers go by. I so desperately wanted someone to talk to me, but nobody would.... Sorry for being depressing..

 

[TickTockMan]

I went to the one in Manhattan about 10 years ago, but I would never go again. It was probably the loneliest experience of my life. I didn't have anyone to go with me, and I just stood there watching all of these floats and marchers go by. I so desperately wanted someone to talk to me, but nobody would.... Sorry for being depressing..

You should try again. Engage people yourself.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I asked to have it changed a few days ago. When I reached 10,000 posts. I didn't think it mattered, so I don't know if people realize it or not.

I have to ask, is the nom de plume a nod to King's magnum opus?

 

[pat grimshaw]

...I volunteer my time to staff Bisexual tables and information booths for my Bi community.

So do you actually try to recruit people into this kind of lifestyle?

One of the more interesting JUBbers revealed to us this week that his heart has been broken by a bisexual.