So I went to Pride Fest this weekend in Seattle Wa. I had an absolute BLAST. I went with a group of girlfriend friends who are all lesbian, one straight girl and myself. Before you ask, Luca did not come. We are early on in this journey and he did not come. To tell you the truth I do not know why now that I think about it.
I was walking down the roads and there were thousands of people. Men in dresses, drag queens, TG, lesbians and gays. People dressed as everything you could imagine.
There was so much acceptance. I was sitting and watching the parade. I got teary eyed when the section of the parade that was the "recently married" couples walked. They had signs of how long they had been together. There was a little car of these two sweet old lesbians who had been together for 50 years, who FINALLY could get married.
I have an immense love of drag queens. They are so dramatic and elaborate. I talked with one for a couple minutes and complimented her dress.
I also saw the Emerald City Social club float and was wondering if any of you ladies were on it? I swear I had seen one of two of those faces before.
There were a lot of Fetish floats in the parade. Leather, whips, master and puppy or master and horse, Goth's, vampirism. This I thought was interesting, but then I realized, even if most of the people who enjoy that fetish are straight, this is probably the only open place they can express themselves. Amongst the LGBTQ community.
When thinking back on it. I don't really think I saw that many TG/CD folks. A lot of gay men, and a bunch of lesbians. In the scope of things it caused me to wonder.
Do more people pass then we have come to believe? Or are TG folks highly underrepresented? I guess I know there is a larger gay/lesbian population than TG. Is being gay or lesbian becoming more mainstream while being TG is something that's still a little too taboo even for pride?
Have any of you been to a festival like this? Would you participate? Any thoughts on the lack of TG people matter? I wanted to badly to tell everyone I saw, "I accept you!" and give them a hug. It was overwhelming actually. Maybe thoughts on why I wanted to desperately to find a Tgirl to talk to?
I wish luca would have come. He could have worn whatever he wanted and no one would have judged. I feel like it would have been such a good experience for him. Maybe next year.