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Foot post that became a pride month post
Jun. 13th, 2023 08:51 pmMy foot is slowly doing better. I just need to *not* sit on it without realizing it. I was probably going to wind up skipping the main Portland Pride event thingie anyway, but this torpedoes it. Last year, and most years, going there means standing in line on a sidewalk for about an hour then once inside the areas you need to talk on are very smooth, well churned mud. Pride is the weekend after Rose Fest, so if we've had any rain the ground gets wrecked. It's physically hard to move around without any injury or movement problems. If you have one it's grueling at best.
So, that is just my experience of Pride this year, it's amazingly inaccessible and this year that excludes me.
I am trying to do other things, but not sure what. Some of the 'for the whole community' or 'community building' stuff I tried last year turned out to be... not that. It was just the typical DJ'd drinking those bars typically have, just with a bunch of 'for the whole community' theming as a feel good thing. Me showing up alone was exactly the same as having tried to go out to a bar full of skimpily dressed twenty somethings on any other night. I'm let in, but being there is awkward and people giggle like I've clearly lost. So I eate the cover charge and left a few places. But, I haven't even heard of events like that this year. I've been trying to look for some smaller / side events but there's not much. There was one I was going to do a few days ago but some people were sure, even though the event didn't say, that it was a womyn's only thing and the organizers never cleared things up in either direction do I didn't head out.
I have been trying to photograph pride flags and stuff for my tumblr, since pride is in a weird place this year. There haven't been many. Some places I reliably see flags don't have them this year. I am very glad I didn't try to challenge myself to a pride post a day on my photography tumblr, that would have crashed and burned badly. Usually in June I am stressed by Pride being so visible, because there is such a disconnect between how overwhelming all the flags and 'don't assume our employee's pronouns' signs and what my actual experiences have been being queer in this town. But the opposite of that isn't good either.
So, that is just my experience of Pride this year, it's amazingly inaccessible and this year that excludes me.
I am trying to do other things, but not sure what. Some of the 'for the whole community' or 'community building' stuff I tried last year turned out to be... not that. It was just the typical DJ'd drinking those bars typically have, just with a bunch of 'for the whole community' theming as a feel good thing. Me showing up alone was exactly the same as having tried to go out to a bar full of skimpily dressed twenty somethings on any other night. I'm let in, but being there is awkward and people giggle like I've clearly lost. So I eate the cover charge and left a few places. But, I haven't even heard of events like that this year. I've been trying to look for some smaller / side events but there's not much. There was one I was going to do a few days ago but some people were sure, even though the event didn't say, that it was a womyn's only thing and the organizers never cleared things up in either direction do I didn't head out.
I have been trying to photograph pride flags and stuff for my tumblr, since pride is in a weird place this year. There haven't been many. Some places I reliably see flags don't have them this year. I am very glad I didn't try to challenge myself to a pride post a day on my photography tumblr, that would have crashed and burned badly. Usually in June I am stressed by Pride being so visible, because there is such a disconnect between how overwhelming all the flags and 'don't assume our employee's pronouns' signs and what my actual experiences have been being queer in this town. But the opposite of that isn't good either.
