The agony of de feet...

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Went to Pride London today. Oof, but my feet are aching. Walked from Park Road to Trafalgar Square and met some very interesting people. People dressed in feathers and leather daddies and trannies with pregnacy suits. Sexy guys in their underwear and lesbians on motorbikes. It was a celebration of sterotypes and individualism and I'm very happy I went, even though my feet are sore.

Also met David the Jedi Knight, a very nice guy dressed in a Jedi robe and wielding the coolest damn lightsaber I ever had the good fortune to lay eyes on. Great guy, quite a show off but then people kept asking him to post for pictures. He was so cool, I wanna be a Jedi.

Pretty damn hilarious running into a Jedi in a gay pride parade when I love Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon slash! Must go riffle up some good fics, I need them.

After we got to Trafalgar Square there was this big stage and a lot of varied people made speeches. Peter Tachell was one of them (he's the guy who runs Outrage! a big gay rights organisation which I'm a part of), and so was Heather, a Male-to-Female transexual who I met at a gathering. Pity Livingstone wasn't there but he was in Sidney (I think it was Sidney, it might have been Singapore. Somewhere on the other side of the world anyway) arguing London's Olympic bid. Be cool if we got it, but I think gay rights are more important.

And Spain legalised Gay marriage! That was so great and everyone cheered when they brought it up. The audience was cheering and booing and shouting and clapping and I think we traumatised the pidgions. They mentioned the civil parnerships act (marrige, gay marrige you homophobic pigs) and said we could do worse than get married at St Micheals (a church within spitting distance of Trafalgar), we all turned to look at the church and saw that the priest and some of the clergy were raising a rainbow flag! The cheering was deafening.

The exertion's not over yet, I got supporting work at a bar yesterday and they need me to turn up tonight because one of the staff is ill/lost/otherwise unavailable. Oh well, at least I'll get some cash and will sleep very well tonight.

Got some work done on 'Masters of the Dark' (the Tramd o' the Dark fic) and an extremely angsty Legends scene. Probably won't have any energy to work on it tonight though.

 

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