gay pride day

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On Saturday: took Morgan to Pride. This was especially fun for him because it involved a trip to the city, a parade and a ride on a train. Hat trick! Didn't get there in time to march, which he would probably not have been up for anyway. But he liked the dancing. And all the rainbow jewelry. Met up with lots of familiar faces at the Poly-Boston tent, including beowabbit (who gave Morgan his rainbow chains, what a sweetie!), sweetmmeblue and fambly, dbang, fraterrisus, tikva and her yummy new roommate, fj and pinkfish, and almost surely others I'm forgetting or whose LJ handles I don't know.

The weather was grey and drizzly when we left home, but got nice and warm on the Common by midafternoon. It left us feeling a bit overheated in our long sleeves. Morgan had been fascinated by a rainbow swirly-ribbon-thingy that he'd seen someone waving around, and persuaded me to take him looking for one. Didn't find any for sale, but we did find a pride flag (the kind with white stars on a blue field, and rainbow stripes instead of red and white) for only $10, which made me very happy indeed.

We couldn't stay long, alas, so around 3pm we collected ourselves and took our leave. On the way I managed to run into awfief, who scored extra brownie points by finding fruit juice for both of us! (I had been only moderately successful in persuading Morgan to keep drinking water.)

I've been wanting to take Morgan to LBGT Pride day for a couple of years, but we keep finding excuses not to go. (You know, silly things, like, oh, we just had a baby and haven't slept in two weeks, or oh, there's a tsunami destroying Storrow Drive today, or oh, I just broke my toe and can't walk.) Not this time! No way!

I probably didn't do a sufficient job of explaining why people were celebrating. But there are years and years ahead of us for those conversations. And, in fact, he didn't seem to need an explanation for why people would spend the day standing on floats and kissing each other, or dancing down the middle of the street in lace, leather and feather boas. And that in itself I find comforting.

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