When The Going Gets Weird . . .

Gayman, Durham PRIDE Parade, 2009. Photo by D.L. Anderson

It’s a wonderful thing to live in a place like Durham, where they have been hosting a gay pride parade annually for the last 25 years – which includes a good deal of crazy-ass homophobic senator Jesse Helms’ career. I still remember the first time I watched the parade, way back in 2005, or twenty-ought-five as we’ll soon say. Everyone was still lining up near Duke and a drag queen from Miami was smearing Vaseline on her teeth, surrounded by she-males in colorful full feather headdresses shouting at one another in Spanish. It was a bit of a culture shock having just arrived from the milquetoast Mid-West. I don’t believe I’ve missed a parade since.

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