Category Archives: Street Fairs

Oakland Pride

How often do you get to see the likes of Chaka Khan and Martha Wash for $5!?  I’m so glad we went.  My daughter and I took BART to 19th Street in Oakland.  She overheard some guys say “follow the bear”.  I met a few friends there and ran into a bunch of people I knew.  I’m glad I didn’t bring my dog, because the music too loud for me.  I can only imagine how hard it would have been for him.

Pride Week 2010

Videos and pictures – One of the videos is from the Dyke March gathering after which I first heard, then saw Wanda Sykes and her wife.  Wanda was amused by a completely naked man with a genital piercing so behind her sunglasses and with her short dreads, I saw her pull out her camera and take a shot of him.  I’m glad their twins were not there!

I can’t believe that a 19 year old kid was shot and killed at the Pink Party.  A few others were injured.  I left relatively early that evening and I had quite a week with six days of staying in the city with various friends visiting from London, Berlin and Philadelphia.  My friend Gene hung out with me a lot and he put me up for a night when two unmentionably flaky people from the Sacramento area left me high and dry at 1am after begging me to wait for them. I knew all the hotels would be booked this weekend of all weekends, so I had the prospect f sleeping on my office floor, which fortunately did not have to manifest.

I met a lot of nice men and women and came into town with my daughter and her two friends and my Yorkie on Sunday, but I didn’t stay too late as the week caught up with me.  I was just getting over losing my voice the week before, but I got a lot of walking in and I had most of my energy back.