Another Pride Sunday come and gone. It was so hot! So much so that, initially I had to push myself out the door. Surprising, since usually, in the past, I had to be at death's door before even thinking about missing a Pride Celebration.
Must be a product of age, I guess.
Pride celebrations are often pretty quiet. There is only one marching band in Cincinnati and this year, they were at the end of the parade. Go figure.
A couple of floats had music, but otherwise it was a pretty quiet affair as parades go. Never the usual messy, noisy, naked fun that I've seen in other cities. Cincinnati, quiet and dignified as always. Never really lets her hair down. Must be all the marching church brigades.
Also missing on the grand scale were politicians who understand the power of the LGBT voting block.
Mayor Mark Mallory led off the parade for the second straight year and we thank him for that, riding in a convertible sporting a dapper summer chapeau to protect his balding head from sunburn.
Council wannabes Yvette Simpson, Chris Seelbach, and Nick Hollan marched surrounded by supporters passing out campaign literature telling us about them. Thank you for coming.
I was extremely happy to see Councilmember Wendell Young. He was the only sitting councilmember in the parade. The others, I would guess, figure they have the gay vote locked up or something...Maybe they don't think they need it. I don't know.
What I do know is that the only people who will ever get my vote are those who respect me and mine. Pretending the Pride Parade doesn't exist or not worth marching in while knocking down people in order to march in every neighborhood block parade that comes down the pike on the west side is no way to govern or get my vote.
So thank you Wendell Young, Yvette Simpson, Chris Seelbach, Nick Hollan and Denise Driehaus for recognizing our equality.
Cecil, Roxanne, Charlie, Amy, Neil and whomever....c ya! I'm done...yes Roxanne, I'm talking to you, too. It is time for Cincinnati to grow up and come into the 21st century. An hour downtown shaking hands during Pride Sunday, never hurt any political campaign.
Glad handing also never hurt the Fire Department or the Police Department or the Cincinnati Bengals or any number of major Cincinnati Corporations. Parades are a cheap and easy way to widen your sphere of influence and good feeling...hint...hint...
One thing to note....Why was Walgreens not open? On Pride Sunday?...on Fourth Street...It was closed...big ass white burglar bars in place for all to see....So what...they afraid of queer money? Better ask Jeff Ruby how closing establishments or taking inventory when minorities are downtown, worked for him... Think I just changed drug stores...CVS, here I come....
Thank you Macy's, Procter and Gamble, Delta, and US Bank for showing up. Time to move my money where my mouth is.
One absence of note...The CCV, or Citizens for Community Values...didn't see em. They sent out a letter on Friday warning "perversion" erupting on Fountain Square this past weekend.
I figure CCV didn't show because there wasn't any porn being passed out. Or maybe they finally have begun to realize that nobody buys into their bigotry anymore.
Cincinnati Roller girls in the house!
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