Jenn and I headed down this past past Sunday to Albany for the annual Capital Pride parade and festival. On the way we icked up my friend Mackenzie. It was to be the first time any of us had been to such an event anywhere. The parade itself was fairly short, but lively and we followed it along its brief route. The main sponsor, besides the ever present CDGLCC (notice there is no mention of we "T's" in their name), was the Waterworks Pub - my fave club if people are actually there. The image below is of their float. I was a little perplexed in that included in the parade was a monstrous yagermeister bus - they must have been one of the sponsors, so I can't complain about the blatant commercialism, I guess...
Following the parade was a festival featuring a small stage with music and plenty of drag queens. I'm not really complaining, but from just watching the shows, you'd swear this event was Wigstock instead of Pride. But the crowd was a good mixture of LGBs, straights and even a couple Ts, young and old. The headliner act was the entertaining (and good-natured since the sound system kept shorting out)
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