Cheers, Boos and Yeah!

[talktooloose]

Yesterday was the best LGBTetc. Pride day I've been to in years. The last couple of years (was it just my mindset?) seemed like endless ads for corporations. But this year, there were few purely corporate floats and a long and heartening line of community groups, plus a wide distribution among marchers of small signs encouraging everybody to vote today.

We roundly booed the one Conservative candidate who dared march, claiming that he personally supported equal marriage at the same time as his party leader was telling hardcore supporters out west that he would give them a voice to stop the redefinition of marriage.

A rather scraggly group of anti-corporate pride marchers walked with their signs, one of which was the wittiest of the day: "If I can't have a revolution, I don't want to be part of your dance." (points if know the original)

I made my best line when the parade had yet to start twenty minutes after the set time: "If the fascists were in charge, Pride parades would run on time!"

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btw, I find this kind of discussion very emotionally draining but I'm grateful for your pushing.

Seriously, though, if I were a debater, I think I'd be weeping all the time.