I feel bad for you guys who are gonna get hit on by some homosexuals...the place where I live has a gay pride parade on July 6..I'm going to stay out of downtown lol.
Both are normally scheduled for the first weekend of summer but for some reason it is one week early this year.
I worked at Iron Cactus downtown a few years back both of those weekends. There was more BS than normal to deal with, but there was HELLA money being made too.
I'm telling you that Relays is 20x worse than biker weekend. From the last three years experience there is no argument. Bikers come out to show their ride and there are a bunch of people, good for business as they come and spend a bunch of money. Relays is a bunch of people that come in town to party, which is okay, the the street fills up and when someone pulls out a gun there are stampedes that seem to happen randomly and dangerously. This last one, we had to literally lock the doors and the gate in the front to keep people from stampeding into the club. Customers had to wait inside until it was safe to be let out of the club. I got caught in one of the stampedes last year and I had run into one of the alleys to get away from all the people. Worst weekend of the year.
You know, this isn't the first time these 2 groups have scheduled events for the same weekend. Last August, the wife and I were in Galveston and there were bikers EVERYWHERE. Turns out, there was some kind of HUGE biker rally there that weekend. Then we went to The Strand and there were rainbow flags outside of every shop and a big hub of activity in the mall area (we later found out it was a drag contest...). Turns out, there was a Pride march that night as well. Some kind of strange alliance between these two groups, I think. Nothing like going into a restaurant and seeing a table full of bikers in front of you and a table full of trannies behind you...
You know, I walked with Planned Parenthood in the Houston Pride Parade last night taking pictures. It was a freaking blast. The crowd was incredibly diverse - all ethnicities represented, kids, families, gay, straight, drunk. They were all in attendance. Of course, I went because this girl I've been kinda seeing invited me, but if I had not walked, I DEFINITELY would've gone and taken pictures. That's an event photographer's dream. Anyone else willing to admit they went? I know many of you dudes in here are afraid people might think you are light in your loafers if you admit to even living within a 20 mile radius of a homosexual.
When will Austin get a hot lesbian parade? I guess a soft p*rn convention would be the closest realistic facsimile. It's not too surprising to see straight couples at a gay parade. You don't have to be a potato to be a fan of french fries. Gay people are fun. They got style, panache. The openly so ones anyway. Repressed self-loathing denial can get ugly. I work at a kitchen right next to a gay bar downtown and it's funny at night to sit and watch all the different types of dudes that partonize the establishment. Some wear ladies clothes, some look like they could kick my ass, some park down the street and approach it slowly looking around paranoid-like not wanting to be seen. Those are the funny ones. I just want to stand on the loading dock and point at them and yell "Hey everyone! That guy's going to the gay bar!"
