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Just wanted to express my thoughts about an amazing pride weekend. Usually I try to avoid the whole thing, but this weekend I partied hard. went to the Pride Ball at the Docks and danced until 4 in the morning. Ran into lots of old friends. Made new ones. My father wasn't arrested. It was the best pride weekend I've had so far! Hope you all had fun.
Haha speaking of your father..
Did you ever ask him about those DILF model wannabes for me? ;)
Glad you had a good time too babe :)
Regards,
Lee
You know what, I keep forgetting everytime i see him. but he's here right now... I'll ask him.
Good stuff :)
Post his pic too hehe
Regards,
Lee
That's so hot.Quote:
Originally posted by MacDaddy
My father wasn't arrested. It was the best pride weekend I've had so far!
Glad you had a great time Mac...I spent the weekend thinking about you and the other 999,999 people enjoying the festivities. Love the new avatar btw....so where are the pics from Pride?
Here's a pic of my dad getting arrested by a plain clothes at Pride a couple of years ago.
http://www.xtra.ca/site/toronto2/arch/body1424.shtm
I had a GREAT weekend.
I started it out at the Beef Ball... Dzinerbear will attest to how well I hold my liquor... I had a such a great time, and I must have met (I by met, I mean got felt up by) at least 200 men that night.
That's something that just doesn't happen at metal clubs very much.
Managed to drag my sorry ass to the parade (which wasn't that great, but I stil had a great time watching it with my friends) and then spent the rest of the day and night on church street cruising, meeting and otherwise "getting to know" a bunch of men.
Played pool with this big hunky Italian guy.
Fixed up my newly-out friend with not one but TWO frat boys, helped set up most of my straight buddies with the female friends of the gay guys I met. Got dared by my best friend to walk up to 10 total strangers in a row and plant big wet kisses on them. I did it.. so if you know any guy who says some drunk bald guy just walked up to them and slipped them the tongue... well, that was me.
I got a Policeman's phone number.
I ate a Moose Hot Dog. I know that sounds dirty, but it really was a hot dog made out of moose meat.
somehow managed to stumble down to the Barn, danced my ass off, and I met a guy who I swear was my twin. He looked so much like me, it was a little disturbing, and people kept looking at us with this weird look when we were... well.. dancing.
Drank so much, I'm amazed my liver didn't pack it's bags and move out.
Not sure how I got home, but I'm home... alone... and my dog is looking at me with a rather concerned expression.
Can't wait for next year.
Jasun...you know I love you...but I think it's probably a damn good thing we're not geographically closer...I think that together we may just be a BIT out of hand. Well...we're already a bit out of hand on our own, together would probably cause some serious shit.
So next year I'm coming to Toronto Pride...and we're going to cause some serious shit ;)
Glad you had a great time...enjoy your recovery.
And Buddy.. you know THAT's true.Quote:
Originally posted by 123Jason
So next year I'm coming to Toronto Pride...and we're going to cause some serious shit ;)
I'll be over my hangover by then, I hope.
Mac, is that your father? I know him. My partner Ted plays pool with him all the time at the underwear party.
Ted and I had a good weekend. We went to the Beef Ball on Saturday night. Lots of humpy men to look at. Jasun will be jealous, but we found a "straight" man there. He's 40 years old and just came out six months ago. He's had one sexual experience to date, but we helped educate him over the next couple of days.
Nice guy. We hung out with him on Sunday, took him to his first Pride parade, and then just lazed around the apartment. It was nice that we could be apart of someone's first Pride. And we got to make a new friend. We have so few of those, so it was cool.
I felt sad for him, though. Glad that he's finally found his way, but sad that it took him so long and that he's missed out on so much.
Ran into Jasun at the Beef Ball and saw him again on Sunday. He seems to have been having a good time.
The crowd seemed to be down this year. Not as many people as past years, which surprised me because usually when there's a political issue, Pride numbers really blast.
The parade was a bore, but it is most years. I really wish someone would grab a hold of that thing and do something to liven it up.
I partied way to hard, so I'm recovering today. I was planning to get a lot of work done today, so we'll see.
Got to go and vote first.
Cheers,
Dzinerbear
I did have a great time.
that's really cool that you were there for somebody's first Pride Day. I really like that look of overwhelmed shock on a guy's face when he first sees the huge crowd and outpouring of support at Pride day.
The Parade had gotten worse every year for years... this year was horrendous. The best one I ever went to was the first.
Of course, I was on a float, wearing a little white loin cloth and no underwear with Baby Oil and gold leaves on my head. I miss those days.
Geez, I wonder if I have picture of that? I'll have to check through my past pride pictures. I didn't take any pictures this year, there's really nothing to photograph. We really should wrestle the parade out of the hands of the politically correct and put it in the hands on the circuit crowd, that'll make it more fun.
Cheers
Dzinerbear
Glad to hear a good time was had by all. Like the new avator, MacDaddy - very butch Canuck Cnandian Bacon sort of thing going on there man!
That would be him, he is a huge pool player... kicked my ass when we went to Montreal 2 weeks ago. Him and his partner are regulars at the Black Eagle.Quote:
Originally posted by Dzinerbear
Mac, is that your father? I know him. My partner Ted plays pool with him all the time at the underwear party.
Yes, my partner borrows his partner's leather chaps on occasion for some of the big leather parties.
Cheers
Dzinerbear
ie: man was he sloshed!Quote:
Originally posted by Dzinerbear
Ran into Jasun at the Beef Ball and saw him again on Sunday. He seems to have been having a good time.
I was just shocked at how little the visible gay community was represented in that parade. No bar floats, no party floats, and hardly any floats at all. The ones that there were were for the most part boring. The Polar Ice float was a whole bunch of gorgeous men with gorgeous bodies who looked like they'd rather be anywhere else but there. Most of the floats had people who looked bored and fed up...Quote:
Originally posted by Dzinerbear
We really should wrestle the parade out of the hands of the politically correct and put it in the hands on the circuit crowd, that'll make it more fun.
I counted at least five people on floats who were sitting down looking irritated and smoking a cigarette.... on a float...in a parade. And good lord, people, the water guns are just plain irritating... I hate it when you've got some loser in the parade who thinks it's cool to super-soak the entire crowd, including people who obivously don't want to get soaked.
There was a club called "Gay Geeks" who really weren't kidding.
there was a bunch of people who were marching who didn't seem to have any affiliation at all... and looked like they had come out of the winners at College and Yonge and had gotten stuck in the parade.
There were so many people who didn't put any effort into their march in the parade at all... poorly constructed illegibly hand-written signs and bargain bin clothes.
Not like i don't wanna see the teachers from Durham Region in the parade, but holy shit... what a bunch of dullards... Why would I want to watch boring people in boring clothes who didn't seem like they'd wanna be there?
Next year, i think I'm gonna put out a call for gay guys who ride motorcycles. We'll put a big speaker in a convertable and blare Judas Priest songs about riding motorcycles, and then ride our bikes behind it. I figure that since every parade is lead by the Dykes on Bikes and men aren't allowed to ride with them (don't get me started on that or the Dyke March), the gay bikers can be the marker of the middle of the parade.
I think you're right, though, We've gotta get the polically correct crowd to go find another thing to make boring and take the parade back.. get more drag queens... more leather men, more bars, more fun. I mean, I had a great time laughing with my friends at all the ugly fat obese naked people, but who wants to watch that for three hours?
I've marched in Long Beach Pride and LA Pride this year and I'll tell ya, Long Beach was a lot more fun. I was with the leather groups, and in Long Beach people were cheering and whooping and hollering all along the parade route. In LA, it was all "to hell with you dorks, where's the hunky guys on the Altoid float???".
I'm serious, I live on the outskirts of Weho but it seems like if you're not a tanned and buffed Twinkieboy the people there won't give you a second glance. I guess that's why I usually hang out in Silverlake. Heh heh.