I imagined it was like learning how to swim: if you wait too long to learn, it becomes almost impossible, not because you can’t learn, but because trying to learn well past your learning-to-swim prime can be downright overwhelming.Ī strong sense of necessity-and a stronger sense of shame-brought me marching at the front of the parade with my church-a Catholic church. I had spent too long saying that I was a part of the LGBTQ community but never actually joining it. However, unlike developing a taste for flamboyant pop culture, going to Pride seemed to actually be something I should get in the habit of doing. In my mind, going to the annual Pride Parade was just an item on the list of things queer kids did.Īlso on the list were listening to Lady Gaga, loving Rent, and knowing how to dance the Time Warp-all of which are things that I just do not do. When I woke up on the morning of Seattle Pride 2013, I was not ready for “Thongs Galore,” and that bothered me.
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