
mmkay, so my BFF Joshikins aka J aka Josh Hotness.... sorry, i got a little side-tracked. anyhoo.... Joshikins and i attended the annual Gay and Lesbian Pride festival in Long Beach, CA for the 4th time just this passed weekend and it was great. there were costumes and drag queens and men wearing mesh shirts. there were also a large amount of men wearing spandex short shorts with sneakers.. yea, and of course the abnormally large amount of women that look like men. We watched Joshikin's brother Donovan uh?... Well Donovan, while he did an AMAZING show covering tina turner songs. That was really great. Before Donovan's show, there was another young man who had a great voice but insisted on covering songs which he did NOT know the words to... irritating. we left and moved on to the hip hop tent. the tent where most of the negros like to hang out. Pretty good rap music with a wide variety of "nigga-looking" studs (idk y i put " " around that, those r my words lmao!) any way. There was dancing, loud talking, hood bitches with the permanent stink-eye, studs grabbing their crotches (which i will never understand since they aren't grabbing anything but their pants), the occasional aroma of weed in the air and the constant smell of cigarettes. We enjoyed that for a minute then decided to take a walk down to the latino tent.... but that was retarded crowded, so we bypassed it. We then turned back around and heard that the hip-hop tent was playing the song that Joshikins has recently fallen in love with "toot it and boot it". By the time we got over to the tent, the song had be over for about 20 minutes (we don't walk fast for anyone) and we settled on the opposite side of the tent as the first time and it was slightly less crowded but more cigarette smoking (eww.... only cuz Joshikins has asthma and i'm pregs) i was also able to get a better view of the ppl that were in the tent. I noticed that with black girls (most, not all) if they weren't studs, they were really hood-rat-ish.... does that make sense? what i mean is, they looked hard, like life beat the fuck out of them.... and their wardrobes.... and their shoes... and their weaves. Yea... so, that was interesting. It seems as though the drag queens have much more style, self-confidence, better bodies and sense of what looks good and what looks a hot ass mess than the lesbian black girls. Duh right? they're drag queens. even still, if ur not a stud, i don't understand the inability to not look so hard like u'll cut a bitch all the time. Latina and white "lipsticks" seem to look like ladies. there's a softness to them that the black girls just don't have.
Rambling? i know... it's a problem i'm working on....
All in all, we had a GREAT time. it was fun and free (not the cover, it cost $20 to get in) there was no real serious judgement going on. by that i mean, ppl weren't judging each other for being masculine or feminine, gay, straight or bi, ppl weren't feeling the need to tone their personalities down. it was beautiful. it's the one place, for some of these ppl, where they can dance with, kiss, hold hands with or just cuddle with their significant others without the stares and the comments or feeling self-conscious. it's a really fun, really open, really beautiful place to be. it really is. and although i'm not gay, i'm glad to know the gay ppl that i do (especially Joshikins) and to be able to support them by just attending and enjoying the festival. i've gone 4 years straight, and i plan on attending every year as long as Joshikins would like to go.
One Heart! One World! One Pride!..... That's their slogan, not mine.... but it works.







