Raining on our parade

[bigmacbear]

Yesterday Rochester had its annual Pride Parade. While the parade itself got by with a light sprinkling of rain, the festival which was to follow in Highland Bowl amphitheater was effectively ruined by a heavy downpour with thunder and lightning, requiring cancellation of the RGMC's performance.

More pictures here.

After the performance was canceled, gmjambear and I went to Old Country Buffet for dinner. A number of tables were filled with Boy Scouts from California on their way to or from camp; we'd seen their buses in the parking lot. Many of the Scouts had patches on their neckerchiefs with a picture of a bear on them. Gary was wearing his "Big Bear Inc." T-shirt from San Francisco, and one of the Scouts happened to notice it, as I overheard him muttering "Bears?" as we passed him on the way to the buffet. Of course, there were a few other bearish men there as well, as can be expected. ;-)

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[teddyb.livejournal.com]

LOL That comment reminds me of my days living in Long Beach's gay neighbourhood (okay, that could be pretty much ALL of Long Beach) and seeing a shop window with lots of tacky, but funny, t-shirts with slogans like, "Sex is like air . . . It becomes VERY, VERY important when you aren't getting any."

One of the most totally inappropriate, but still funny, t-shirts was one designed to look just like the blue and yellow t-shirts sold to Cub Scouts.

The slogan was, "Cub Scouts taste better than Brownies."

It was just so totally WRONG, but I couldn't help giggling.

I just can't imagine who would actually have bought and worn it.

LOL On the other hand, I had a huge collection of other shirts of that sort. When I moved to Toronto and got myself settled down, my husband of the time forbade me to wear them anymore, referring to them as my "come fuck me" t-shirts.

He was so totally wrong. That isn't what they said at all. *grin*