Pride Day

I spent much of my day on Saturday down at the Pride Day festival in downtown Indy. It was quite the event! At first, I was going there to meet Jen and help her friend Stephanie move to a new apartment. That was all fine and cool and afterwards, we enjoyed a nice pizza on Mass Ave out on their patio. It was totally a beautiful day.

Afterwards, we walked down to the War Memorial Park where the celebrations were going on. There were people everywhere! It felt so good seeing so many couples out there and so many people just having a blast to the music.

I dropped Jen and her frend off and then came back and met up with some coworkers an hour later. It was way cool to get to see them here and some of them had never seen me out and about so it must've been a bit of a change for them.

Another surreal thing was seeing protesters there, with all kinds of signs deploring Gay Pride as an abomination before God, and steps queer people can take to change their ways. I can't remember having been somewhere where people were actively protesting against my beliefs and I have to say it felt good. I wanted to run over there and hug each of those Fundies, and let them know that I love them, even though they are so misguided in their ways.

With a nice SPF 15 lotion and my cute straw hat, I was able to avoid the sun's evil burning ouchiness. I will have to remember this for my trip out to Pittsburgh this coming July! That sun can't keep me away from fun.