#Washington DC Gay Pride

[thefrankshow]

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, struts his stuff on The Mall in Washington, DC.

[t13shoots]

[chedda-b1scu1sts]

[thegirl-in3z]

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[atompowers]

"The memories, the friendships, the feeling of belonging and those joyous moments on the dance floor. The bars evolve as we do. They come and go and sometimes come back again. The spaces may be fleeting, but what they’ve given us is permanent."

—D.C.’s Gay Bars: An Oral History, Citypaper

[cassandragemini]

19th DC Gay Pride Day Festival, Washington DC, June 5th, 1994, by Elvert Barnes Photography

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

21st GAY PRIDE DAY PARADE, Washington DC (June 1996) by Elvert Barnes

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: May 7, 2024

Picture Books It’s Pride, Baby! by Allen R. Wells (text) and Dia Valle (illustration) Lift your soul to the sky. Like summer sunbeams― Don’t live behind clouds. You shine! It’s Black Gay Pride Day in Washington, DC, and two gay parents are getting their child ready for a day at the National Mall. From cheerful neighbors to colorful outfits to fireworks, the vast LGBTQIA+ community is represented…

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Then why is there so much porn of people fucking, in public, in front of crowd's of people, at pride? You're telling me that they are all just fake? Like is it cgi? Idk what pride you've been going to, but it must be the PG version. Must be like the Mardi gras parades in Alabama lol

Yes porn is definitely an accurate representation of reality and not all the thousands of people who attend pride parades every year with their families and do not see people fucking in the street.

"idk what pride you've been going to, but it must be the PG version. Must be like the Mardi Gras parades in Alabama lol"

I've been to Pride in Atlanta, Washington DC, Dublin, and Lyon and never seen anyone fucking in the streets. Please give me the locations of these wild Pride orgies so I can attend.

If you're going to base your perception of pride off of some porn videos probably from Fulsome Street Fair or something instead of everyone who has actually been and is telling you that sucking and fucking is not happening in the streets I can only assume you're a troll or just deliberately obtuse.

Any wild sex stuff at pride is happening at adults only events, not on the streets.

I won't be engaging further because you're definitely sounding like some right-wing troll attempting to stir up moral panic about the filthy gays.

[t13shoots]

[dollmaidcrystal]

connaissez vous des club de pony girl ou pony boy

Je suis désolée, mais je ne connais pas de clubs de ponygirls dans les régions francophones. Les poneys américains vous sont probablement moins utiles.

To anyone who hasn't been keeping up with their Duolingo French, germanotti asked about any ponygirl or ponyboy clubs that I'm aware of. I know of a few, but none in French-speaking areas.

San Francisco has Stampede, which has been going strong for at least two decades now. They're easy to get in contact with and friendly to newbies, if you're in the area.

Texas has a couple of ponyplay groups, which take pride in their rodeo traditions. Sadly, last time I was in the area, the scene was very gender segregated. A sissy rubberdoll pony didn't really fit in with the gay leather ponies or with the more heterosexual ponyplayers. Not to mention my usual latex enclosure doesn't get along great with the Texas heat.

The Crucible in Washington DC has an annual camping trip where take over an entire campground for over a week. If you want to go somewhere to be a pony for days at a time, or to be a part time pony who can sneak out for smores and cocktails, this is the place to go.

Even though it's gone now, I should also give a shoutout to the memory of the finest training facility to have ever trained a ponyboy or ponygirl. Once upon a time, if you wanted your ponygirl trained to the highest standards, Crimea's Ponyplay Society was the place to send her to. Sadly, that club closed in spectacular fashion in 2014.

[roga-el-rojo]

Queer Brown Voices - Quesada, Gomez, and Vidal-Ortiz

Hello friends!

My final recommendation this pride month is another compilation of activist queer history, this time focusing on queer Latines personal narratives on their activism from the 70's through the 90's, continuing the legacy of our foremothers like the stunning Sylvia Rivera (a Venezuelan-Boricua!) in bringing liberation to all the people: "Queer brown voices" edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz.

Dr. Quesada is a Costa Rican writer and founded the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Letitia Gomez has been a Latina lesbian activist since joining the Gay Chicano Caucus in Houston in 1982, founding the first national queer latine organization called LLEGÓ and others in her career.

Dr. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is associate professor of sociology at American University in Washington, DC, producing professional and popular writing on LGBTQ issues.

"Queer Brown Voices" is a collection of fourteen essays reflecting on the diverse experiences of Latines all around the US during an incredibly important period of queer liberation struggles addressing the problem of white supremacy in queer organizations and anti-queerness in Latine ones. Coming from and having different relationships to their diasporas and origins, these writers provide lots of food for thought.

One essay I'd like to highlight is "All Identities on the Table: Power, Feminism, and LGBT Activism in Puerto Rico" by Olga Orraca Paredes.

Paredes' piece reflects on her work in defining Boricua lesbian activism since the 70's. She saw queer liberation become marginalized by the Left on the island and she fought to reclaim that space for struggle, and also had frustrations with reformist feminist elements that staved off decolonization and class analysis in lesbian organizing. While she did end up joining LLEGÓ and described challenges which do seem endemic to liberal organizations beholden to large donors, her experience is important for the Latine Left broadly.

If this essay interests you, there are a dozen others writing about stories from Texas to both coasts, so please check this collection out!