Utah Pride 2008
I spent the past two days at the Pride Festival in Salt Lake, getting sunburnt and stuffing myself with greasy State-Fair-type food. Saturday I just kind of mooched around, listening to music and surveying the booths. I watched the Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps (ROTC) of Salt Lake perform (righteously outrageous, naturally), followed by a group called Cavedoll (off-pitch, but enthusiastic), and lastly Meshell Ndegeocello (groovy/funky).
Cavedoll
Meshell Ndegeocello
Yesterday morning I watched the Pride parade with Craig (which is when a great deal of the sun-burning happened, for both of us). Some of the floats were fun, but somehow huge gaps appeared between each of the participating groups, which meant we had to stand in the hot sun for several minutes at a time twiddling our thumbs before the next float filled with half-naked go-go dancers showed up. SO HARD TO BEAR, THIS WAITING.
Craig and Me
“Yes, you too can be a lesbian!! Inquire within.”
After the parade, we went to the Festival and hung out with two gay BYU students as well as with Scot and Rob (of UtahCog), their twin boys and various relatives and friends of their family. (I need to learn how to take photos when people are facing me. I’m working on it.)
Alan and Scot
Rob, Scot and Brian
Right before we left, I stopped by the “Gay Latter-day Saint” booth and stuck another pin in the Catania, Italy mission with my name on it.
Anz. Tibbitts
Catania, Italy
Last night I saw Kung Fu Panda in the theater (fun, but nothing special) and Atonement at home on DVD (OMG AMAZING THERE ARE NO WORDS). And then I went to sleep, ready to go back to work this morning.
