I'm pretty sure everyone will be either a teabagger or a teabaggee. Probably both in most cases. Indeed, I suspect many will have just teabagged, be teabagging or will be making plans to teabag soon. Perhaps with a fellow teabagger they just met.

There will probably be some Bible-humpers, but... I don't think any anti-tax teabaggers will join us. They like to pretend that they're not concerned with social issues, even if... once in office... they will, without a doubt, vote the straight AFA/FRC line on gay rights and abortion.

Pride BETTER fawking be for bi's too.

I guess I always though that
bi = queer = a virtual bionic hybrid of faggot/dyke = bi's are more gay than gays and twice as lez as lesbians.

i.e.
Bisexuals are the DoubleMint Gum of homosexuality.

Op-Ed: At pride are bisexuals welcome? - yes, I've felt so for years now.
In general in the LBGT community?: no, still not 100%: there's still plenty of stereotyping / prejudice about/against bi's from the homofabulous folks (and moreso from hetero folks). Mostly just misunderstandings and generalizations, I hope.
Bisexuality is a smaller slice of the population pie than either lesbians or gays, so I'll warrant it's not as easy to get exposed to many examples/flavors...

I'm up to 14 gallons. I have yet to be deferred.

She can eat a bag of rainbow-frosted dicks for all I care.

well, of course silly beans! the Bisexuals put the B in LGTB! (what do you think that "B" stood for? bacon? barbara streisand?) it's as much The Bis parade as anyone else's. Even though the rest of us know you're just laying low until you get out of college. it's cool. wink, wink.

It is LGBT for a reason and there is only one section. One reason we evolved from lavender and pink to the rainbow is the desire for everyone to be part of the community. Besides, you don't have to be a pirate to go to seafair.

I had gay friends who gave me a lot of shit when I hooked up with my future husband. I sat them down and had a very serious talk with them. I said, "This wasn't a choice, me liking guys. But after a lot of soul-searching, I've come to realize that this is just how I was born and I can't change it. And I don't want to. I understand that it may seem strange or icky to you guys, but just like being left-handed, some people are born straight and no one knows why. Please stop teasing me and making fun of me. It's very rude and hurtful." By the time I finished "coming out" they were busting up laughing, and also realized that they were being asses just the same as if it were reversed. I don't know if this would work for you, but you could try it.

What you describe is deliberately wasting the time and resources of an organization whose mission is helping people. This isn't nordsrom we are talking about. It is a charity dependent on regular people donating time, money and blood. It is terrible that they turn us away for donations just for having had gay sex. But, what you are doing is petty, deliberately wasteful and does nothing to improve our standing on this issue.

Not lately for some very lame reasons, but yes, I do. I don't lie, though, since I have not had sex with a man who's had sex with another man since 1977 (the criteria for same-sex contact). Gender hath its privileges. :P

But yes, I'd lie if I knew beyond doubt that I was OK and I had to lie to donate.

Honestly, I don't see a lot of percentage in your process. Why are you telling the volunteer on the other end of the phone that you can't donate under current rules? I've given this lecture myself to the phlebotomist before I decided it was futile, but the person manning the phones has even less impact on policy than the person sticking you. It's good work, but needs to be done at the macro level, not to someo volunteer trying to get through a list of names.

ohh, i love the gay priding str8s!please come! it always makes my various ducts well up to see them there, enjoying our madness. (much like PFLAG...i always get misty when they march by for some reason: their happy supportive little faces always make me cry. also, animated christmas specials. and anything with dolly parton in it. but i'm getting off topic...)

Please come. You're more than welcome. If it was a private, gays-only party we'd hold it at the Vatican.

I've been to the last two and enjoy it if just for the celebratory atmosphere. To be sure, some of the marchers are entertaining, but the real draw for me is just being out and about amongst so many happy people.

I'll probably go this year, two, and just read a book between awesome floats :p

I am a hetero male and I attended my first pride parade last weekend in Denver. Having never been to the Seattle parade/festival, I cannot comment on its awesomeness. But I would absolutely attend Denver's again.

It was the most fun/friendly/overall positive gathering of 275,000 people I have ever seen. I did not see a single negative interaction. It is a celebration of people loving people.

AWESOME!

that woman would eat a cookie if richard simmons himself were perched on top of it. it's pathological.

The 9 to 12 person group I went with (to most but not all of the last 16 or so Pride Parades) included 3 straights in addition to us bi/Q folk and the 2 - 4 gay boys and the token lesbian couple. We (queers and heteros) marched in it too for 2 years (1997,1998) but prefer hooting and hollering and catching swag from the sidelines.

But, in answer to your Q, while their PFLAG memberships may have expired, the straight kids are all still with us during pride; one of them even has 2 little children now, and they have a blast.
Agree with fnarf; less likely to go as we get older - the group is down to about 7 or 8 adults now (for many reasons).

Yes! And dress up clothes are encouraged, so let the kids dress themselves in all their crazy combinations of tutus and superman capes, etc. There's usually facepainting after the parade as well as other kid-centric stuff to do. They will love it.

I suggest giving them your best come-hither look, replete with rapid winking, whilst making the open-fists-bumping-together gesture (if female) or the finger-poking-fist one (if male). I'm sure the results will be very educational.

I used to go watch the parade every year when it and I lived on the Hill, but no more. Old, boring, no parking, you know the drill.

I have missed only one Pride parade in the last 15 years or so. I've marched in about six of them, which is kind of a pain, because you miss all the cool floats and stuff, unless you mill around a lot in the assembly area before the parade starts.

OK? I thought it was obligatory.

You'll definitely see the issues groups marching at Pride - the PFLAG folks and the inclusive churches always get a big cheer - but most of the activism takes place at the booths. The parade is a time to have fun, party, and be visible.

If you definitely want the "here is who to contact and what to say" most of the issues groups will have handouts available. Everything from health organizations to politicians will have booths.

If you wish to sleep with them, and think there might be a possibility of it, then you can ask. Otherwise, it's completely irrelevant.

Welcome to town! For starters, you don't want to go to Capitol Hill if you want to see the parade. It's downtown, and there's a map here.

I can't think of a good place to watch the parade from a restaurant; the crowds lining the route would seem to prevent that and I don't recall any balcony seating anywhere along 4th.

One option is to watch the parade while sipping a refreshing cup of coffee, then heading to Seattle Center where everything is happening post-parade. There's some info here on public Pride events.

I've taken my daughter almost every year of her life. This year, she's 4 and we'll be in attendance again! Kids especially love all the cheap free swag (necklaces, stickers, candy, etc) and the costumes.

I don't give a shit what Maggie Gallagher eats or doesn't eat. The woman is a loon.

It's kind of nosy to ask, don't you think? If you know the person well ehough to ask, you probably already know the answer. Taking a tip from the Rev's grandfather, it's not dissimilar from asking what someone's religion or preferred political party is.

Backatcha: what would be your goal in asking? Not in knowing, but in asking?

There are two events. The parade is just a very big and fabulous parade. The festival part (at Seattle center) has booths with the sort of information you are talking about as well as speeches that cover a range of issues.

They are great events but lack the organization, art direction and intensity of Mardi Gras.