Happy Pride!
This weekend was Boston Pride! Because, yes, it’s that season. The best season of all — Pride season! (Ok, it’s mostly the best season because it’s summer…but the parades are nice too!) I have actually not been to Boston Pride before this year.
Chris and I headed up that way Friday night and hit up a pre-Pride party hosted by his friends Bobby and Justin — who also hosted that Memorial Day BBQ we ended up at a few weeks ago. (Did I blog about that? So don’t remember…) There was lots of drinking, because as we know the gays are the best there is at partying and third best at drinking (the Irish come in second, with gay Irish folks taking the lead — though I maintain that that’s cheating! 
) At the end of the night, Chris and I pulled out the pull-out sofa-bed and crashed.
We woke up, showered, and then Justin and Bobby’s entourage began to show up. Of course, this meant that drinking had to occur before we got to the parade — so we whipped out the blender and made strawberry daiquiris. We sat through the parade then, because apparently they decided to have an intermission, we left halfway through it for lunch. We walked for roughly a week before we got there. Then we headed to Government Center for the festival.
Kitty Litter and Sabrina Blaze atop the RI Pride float in the Boston Pride parade (Credit: Bobby)
I saw porn star Trevor Knight wandering around, but really that was the most fascinating thing going on. And since I’m not really a huge fan of Trevor Knight (which is nothing against him — he’s a very good-looking guy and those that I know that know him mostly speak very highly of him)…well, it wasn’t that incredible. Also, I was sober again, which probably had something to do with it.
Anyways, we left and returned to Bobby and Justin’s for another party. See, Boston clubs are expensive anyways unless you’re getting in for free (which I tend to do when I go out everywhere else, but not so much in Boston…), but on Pride it’s even more expensive. It’s more prudent to party at a house and save your money for the upcoming Providence Pride celebrations. (I’ll get to that in a bit.) So we partied at Bobby and Justin’s and slept there again.
How cute is Chris in this? (Credit: Bobby)
We came home this morning feeling kind of refreshed — it’s been a while since we’ve really been that social. Super, super fun weekend!
Next weekend is Providence Pride which we universally agreed is always done better than Boston. If you’ve never been to PrideRI you need to try to make it on Saturday — if not, plan to come to next years!!!!
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