Los Angeles Gay Pride 2006

Oh Gay Pride. That wonderful time when streets are closed, bodies are buffed, brunches served and all the weirdos get drunk. It's a beautiful time.

Steve and I attended with our friends Matt and Rick, as well as a number of other people who we took pictures alongside... but not with my camera. Here is the trio at Trunks, this fantastic dive bar you only go to on Gay Pride because the lines are short and the drinks are strong.
In Los Angeles, it's quite common to see celebrties at Gay Pride. Here's Steve with Rose McGowan of Charmed fame, as she volunteers to man the ID Lube trash can.

Other celebrities included former gay-for-pay porn star Jeff Stryker. Who still, after all these years, looks like a Thunderbird.
Naturally celebs like Anna Nicole Smith know that gay pride is a great way to promote their show, so Janice Dickinson popped up with a bunch of hot guys to promote her new show on Oxygen. Now I've interviewed Janice, she loved me, but here it seems I farted or something because she looks quite annoyed. Or perhaps she was saving her energy. Or perhaps nothing kicked in yet. Who can say? She was quite festive while rolling down the Blvd.


There are also classic icons-- I know, you think Janice is an icon, but not like this. Our Pride featured Edith Shan, who is the woman in this famous photograph of the returning soldiers from war.








Here Steve and I take a turn alongside her car, then Matt and Rick do. Sadly, my spy camera isn't great so she was cut in ours, which is a huge tragedy because this could be the only time in our lives when we get to see this woman.











Gay Pride wouldn't be Gay Pride without a whole bunch of homo haters telling us we were going to hell, and as usual they were perched at La Cienega. There were about 10 this year-- everyone else you see is security-- and normally Steve and I would have run over and kissed in front of them for a photo but who had the energy? UGH! So instead, we found some children at Pride who are helping spread love, not hate.
















After a hug, this little one wanted to keep my sunglasses.


And look at this adorable newborn with two very happy moms!












And what about this little boy who loves his Guncles (Gay Uncles) just like my neices and nephew love Steve and me? Take that, haters!













Don't forget about Puppy Pride. These dogs love their moms and dads very much.

























It amazes me that in a city like Los Angeles we don't have better floats. We usually have celebs sitting on the back of Ford Mustangs and grocery stores with their trucks driving down-- which I honestly think is so that they can make their deliveries on time and has nothing to do with gays, other than the fact that we're blocking traffic. But the Gay and Lesbian Center had this one celebrating their 35 years of serving the community.
And Frontiers Newsmagazine had one with Amanda LePore. You can barely see her sitting on the throne, but her tig ol' bitties are hanging out with stars covering her nips. Classy, I know. But it is Gay Pride and we're all about class.

We eventually made it to the festival with our friend Chris Lisotta. Now Chris will be horrified by this picture, but then perhaps he (and you) will look to the left to find... a butt. Yes, we are a proud people. Like the Navajo, only different.






Okay, so festival, festival, festival, cracked out queens in the dance tent, lines for beer, carnival style food we couldn't stomach (but should have because Steve got a killer headache later from lack of food) and instead we went over to The Abbey. There we ran into our girls Molly...
















And Lori and Meghan...





And then that was that. Another Pride finished. Oh, and you may be wondering, was our vanity diet really worth it? Yes, because we had a lot of people taking our pictures, asking how long we'd been together, and when we said five years they responded... "Really? FIVE! AND you bought a house??? Amazing!"
Okay, they were all our friends teasing us, but whatever. It got said and that's all that matters.