Today is Boston's Pride Parade. They changed the parade route this year and it will be passing right under my living room window! It's like having an apartment on 5th Avenue for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

With mimosa in hand, I'm watching everyone preparing below. So far I've seen a brightly painted fairy (okay, smart alecs, so there are lots of fairies, but I mean the kind with wings), a coterie of drag queens dressed in red feathers, a black truck with pink shag carpet and attendants with hair to match, and a pair of "ladies" who could have come straight from Royal Ascot with their huge flowered hats. And this is just the staging ground that I can see from here. Once the parade starts, I'll have the perfect view of everything!

Some of my friends who are marching with Boston's GLBT Pagans have promised to look up and wave as they walk by. I'd take pictures but when I tried to take out one of my screens I nearly fell out the window. I think that might put a damper on the festivities. So I'll update with a post-parade report.

UPDATE - Highlights so far: the Hot Lips truck giving a jump start to the WFNX van, the horned costumes worn by the Latino Health Institute marchers, the bagpiper for Boston's Ironsides Rugby, Queer Soup's girl in a barrel, the Starbucks drag mermaid hitching up her tube top, seeing a couple of friends marching with the Independent Pagans of New England.

UPDATE TWO - Further highlights: Drag Dorothy and the friendliest looking flying monkey I've ever seen, the Lawn Chair Bears, the French Bulldog leading the Mass Equality group, the Bacardi peaches (girls in peach costumes) and the spastic dancer in the speedo on their van, the drag queen wearing a hat made out of about a hundred flip flops in the shape of a flip flop (of course), and bringing up the rear (pun intended) the dancers on the Portuguese Speakers float.

And here come the street cleaners.

Celebrating diversity, equality and love for all. Happy Pride everyone!

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 11:47 AM