Uhm. I’m just relaying some of the scenes from Gaye Pryde here.
PARENTAL ADVISORY. I’M STILL SERIOUS!!
So I was out front of Boheme at one point during the parade. We were serving street-side iced drinks and hot coffee, blah blah. I was minding my own business, literally. Trying to mostly keep my head down. The crowd just beyond me was thick, so it was actually somewhat hard to see the parade, except for any elevated floats. But I was just standing there — yo dee doh — and these two chicks walked by — more accurately, uh, one chick was dragging the other behind her on a leash. The leashed one had her hands tied behind her back and wore these — I’m not sure exactly — shorts, I guess, red garbage bag looking things. I’m not into BeeDeeSM — (don’t know how to write that to avoid spam) — shocking, I know, but maybe there’s a name for them other than “red garbage bag shorts”? A name I don’t really want to know? Anyway …. it’s kind of shadowy in this photo, but the leashed one there was also topless. Yep. I was pouring coffee when right in front of me — Hulllooo! — there they were, her beleaguered girls, n*pples painted over to look like glitter stars. And leashed girl was very ornery, as part of the whole bit, I imagine. Pulling on her leash, not moving when called, moaning, being a very bad dog! or whatevs. MB had his cell phone and snapped some pictures, more in utter disbelief than anything. I think it was one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen. They did this up and down the sidewalk, their little BeeDeeSM tug of war, being totally into it — unless they saw someone snapping a photo. Then they would stop and pose.
Maybe they’ll get a nice shot for this year’s Christmas card.
The image of MB positioning himself to get this photo is genius.
How truly sad this is…what must the “leashed one” have gone thru in life to think it acceptable to be dragged thru the street like that and still appear to enjoy it. My heart aches for her…
Is this next year’s poster?
Oh so nice. I remember a friend of ours calling us up to go out for dinner one halloween. He told us that he had heard about a parade going on in Hollywood and maybe we could catch that. We didn’t know until we got there that it was a gaye parade. Oh the unmentionable things that we saw. It was something.
And of all of the lovely gaye people that I’ve known over the years, I don’t think that any of them would have participated in something like this. At least I don’t think so. They probably would have thought it was horrible.
Aiyee – my eyes!!!!!!!!!
I have no words.