Pride march

[susanreads]

Yesterday I went on my first ever Pride march! It's the first one I've had the chance to go on in the sense that I knew about it - there was one (the first ever in Colchester) last year, but I didn't know that (or that there was a Colchester Pride at all in 2022, I guess I was still living under a rock) until talking to someone yesterday while waiting for the march to start.

I think the first ever Colchester Pride was in 2017, and again I didn't know about it till afterwards. I went to the next two, and then You Know What happened. They were basically festivals, at and in the grounds of an arts venue. I didn't go to the festival part this year: the programme looked like mainly cabaret, which is not my thing (I'm an old fogey), and although mostly outdoors, crowds of unmasked strangers still = No Thanks.

Pride should be a protest! It's not as if we don't have plenty to protest about, specifically as queer people and in general!

*waves tiny flag*

Comments

[cesy]

Hooray!

[susanreads]

Hi! I didn't know anybody was still following me: I posted this and then realised my previous post was in 2021, oops! I have been reading, and occasionally commenting ... there is So Much Stuff.