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Portland Pride Parade 2013 with Poder Latino Oregon!
I’m a little late, but I want to get these photos out to you. Last month I met a friend in Portland’s Chinatown and we watched the Pride Parade. I hadn’t seen Eliot since I lived in Humboldt, which was before I went to school in Boston, which was so long ago! Nine, maybe ten years, it’s been, and that is entirely too long to go without seeing a friend.
He introduced me to Amanda, and then we were able to catch up on old times while cheering our support for the floats and banners and people as they passed.
Our ladies of Bridgetown
The Timbers Army loves LGBT!
The parade was smaller than the last couple of times I’ve seen it. Fewer drag queens, which is a disappointment. More company support, which I LOVED. You know, banks, churches, high schools, airlines, etcetera, marching in T-shirts shouting “We are happy to serve everyone,” or “We hire anyone who is qualified.” There were lots of politicians in the parade, publicly announcing that they want to represent all of their constituents.
People of faith were out in support…um, wait a minute… is this a real church?
Nike, one of the area’s largest employers, came out in force
I was pleased to see Uncle Jim and Uncle Larry driving the square dancing float for the Rosetown Ramblers. Jim drives it every year, and Larry typically drives the bowling float for the Portland Community Bowling League, but I didn’t see the bowling float, so the Uncles were in the same truck this year.
The Rose City Rollers are Portland’s all-female flat track roller derby league
The weather was great! There were some clouds early, it cleared up and became warm and sunny by the end of the parade.
Portland is certainly the most eclectic, accepting, diverse, and liberal place I’ve ever lived. It feels good to be in a city where most of the time strangers see you first as a human being, and second as whatever your outward appearance might be. That also makes it more startling when insensitive, non-inclusive, or even hateful words and actions are tossed around. But…I suppose it’s unavoidable that when you take people from 600,000 different walks of life and put them all together, that sometimes we’ll be awful to each other. Considering that this is the case in every city, most of the time Portland does a damned good job of embracing all of its people.
Enjoy the photos.
Ssssssssssizzlin!
The audience, I kid you not, does not look much different than the typical group of people one finds on Portland streets.
Sorry I caught you in an unflattering expression, but dahling, you look FABULOUS!
Red Dress is always a great float
The Pug Contingent
Eliot, me, and some of our fair city’s bridges in the background.
God did what?
We’re heading out today to see Portland’s Pride Parade. Saw this image on a website of last year’s photos. If you believe in God, then God made us, then God made us the way we are, so God made gays. Huh.
