Comments on: So We Did Do The Pride Thing in Vancouver, After All

By: bstewart23

bstewart23 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:24:04 +0000

Like you need to ask, Drew.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:04:47 +0000

I’m curious about these enchanting hosts and the shameless flirting. Were there multiple recipients, or a targeted individual?

By: cb

cb — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:17:10 +0000

I think you’d look rather fetching in a sailor hat and go-go hot shorts!

By: Pfferberg

Pfferberg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:54:25 +0000

Nice concise overview. Hey i think i was at the same resturant as you Saturday night. That means i was within your presence twice in one weekend. Dang. At the Pumpjack on Friday they had tents set up on the back patio, well of course this is just a obstacle course for drunks, and wouldn’t ya know it, one guy just walked right into the pole and knocked down the tent. Since i was not under the tent at the time i thought it was hilarious. Yes the Gitmo Party Enclosure For Gays needs to be abolished. At least the fence was a purty blue. Vancouver is such a great city. DEEP COVE kayaking bitches.

jack

By: Malle Babbe

Malle Babbe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:37:33 +0000

Wait, your Dad is Gandalf?

Re: Hippie McD-Bag… I was picturing patchouli stink-waves coming off of him, a la Pepe le Pew…

By: Carol Elaine

Carol Elaine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:42:06 +0000

That’s no hippie. Douchenozzle, yes, but he’s just a wannabe who thinks if he grows his hair and gets a few piercings then he’s totally cool and alternative. Probably doesn’t realize he’s a frat boy in disguise.

Classless poseur.

Glad you had fun despite Undercover Fratboy and annoying bicycles!

By: NPD

NPD — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:42:25 +0000

I was indeed on that float! Well, behind the float, playing around the volleyball net.

And we do need to do the coffee thing! You got my email, let’s figure out a time and place.

By: bstewart23

bstewart23 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:04:53 +0000

Nic, were you on that float? Dude, we need to do the coffee thing.

By: NPD

NPD — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:03:26 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the parade, hippie douchenozzles and all. Did you happen to catch the VGVA float, with the moving volleyball net and giant volleyballs tossed around? /shamelessplug

And I hear you about the tourists getting their pictures taken with flamboyant drag queens, like they’re at the zoo or something. Bleagh.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:50:55 +0000

Why did that guy even GO to the PRIDE parade if he felt like that?

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:37:40 +0000

Brett, I love it when you give us caustic new phrases such as ‘hippie douche-waste.’ Not since ‘fuck-weasel’ have I been so delighted by your perspicacity. Rock on, west coaster.

By: bstewart23

bstewart23 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:08:23 +0000

Dan, as I mentioned in the post, it was reminiscent of Toronto Pride in the late ’90s, just as it was moving from a size conducive to a nice mingling of community, neighbours and visitors to an unwieldy mega-event. It’s time for the Vancouver Pride Committee to step up the services as the crowds are overwhelming the small scale of the services provided.

That said, YVR’s Pride was less slick and more enthusiastic to these old, jaded eyes. People in Vancouver, even gay men who’ve been out for years, sometimes slip into lowering and softening their voices when they say the word “gay”, which is pretty astonishing when you consider we can not just be open, but recognized by the state through marriiage, too.

By: Dan from Toronto

Dan from Toronto — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:57:41 +0000

How does it compare to Toronto Pride?

By: Larry Ohio

Larry Ohio — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:32:18 +0000

Wow!! Your Dad is H-O-T!!