"Oooh, hot lesbian!"
Feb. 7th, 2006 04:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lishesquexThe Pride March on Sunday was quite interesting and yummy (mmm gelati, mmm corn). Upon arrival, Jackie and I were approached by several Chinese people who we think were either tourists or newly arrived migrants. The conversation went something like this:
Random Chinese People: Hi, do you speak Chinese?
Us: Uh, a little bit?
RCP: Can you tell us what this parade is for? *smiles, gestures to colourful marching people*
Us: Erm...
RCP: *still smiling, watches as a half naked man dances past*
Us: Uh... *trying to figure out how to say "gay" in Chinese*
RCP: Is it a National Festival? *smilesmile*
Us: Uh, no...
RCP: *smiles some more*
Us: Um... we're sorry, we don't know how to explain it... *runs off giggling*
We walked past groups of people lined up under banners and ready to march. Briefly, we wondered if we should try to join one of them. I for one thought that we should have joined "Melbourne Leather Men", but alas, it was not to be. We ended up as one of the cheering onlookers next to a very amusing man who cheered loudly and enthusiastically for everything and everyone that went by. Several choice phrases:
"GAY TREKKIES!!! YAAAYYY!"
"GAY CHRISTIANS!!! YAAAAY!!!"
"GAY DOCTORS! GO GAY DOCTORS!"
"GAY GREEKS!!! WOOHOOOO!!"
"GAY BISEXUALS!!! YAAAAYYY!!"
It was very amusing.
Anyway, here are some pictures that I took. I resized them a little to make it easier for those on my flist with less well endowed connections. :-D
Warning: At least one picture contains manboobies.
Apparently gay pride flags only have 6 stripes. You learn something new every day.
I want those rainbow trousers.
Lesbians or drag queens? I'm going to go with drag queens. What do you think?
Gay Trekkies!!1 Yaaay!!
I wonder why they have numbers...
Melbourne Leather Men. We would have fit in so well...
*winces*
Gay bears!
Gay stilts!
Gay cows? Or just... fruity, landscapey ones.
See those cars on the other side of the road? They were held up at the traffic lights for long stretches at a time while the long, long column of pride marchers crossed the road. I could see a loooong line of cars lined up all the way down the road. Heh.
The Catani Gardens, which is next to the beach. This is where all the people ended up.
After the arduous march, Jackie and I treated ourselves to overpriced rainbow gelati. And then I bought a rather phallic looking corn-on-a-stick. I would have taken a picture of it, but my camera ran out of batteries.
At one point, we were approached by two polite but creepy religious guys who gave us pamphlets and asked a few probing questions. *shudder* Luckily for them, they didn't say anything stupid like "homosexuality is evil and you're going to hell" outright, because I would have beat them with my corn-on-a-stick.
I tried to find a hot lesbian dressed up as Xena who I could fall for. It would be perfect - we'd have a whirlwind romance, get married, and have many babies. Sadly, she was nowhere to be seen.
Jackie kept count of how many times I went "Ooooh! Hot lesbian!". We think it was about 7 or 8 times that I did it unwittingly, passionately and eyes-light-up-ly. The other times were all just lukewarm.
The world needs more hot lesbians damnit.
Random Chinese People: Hi, do you speak Chinese?
Us: Uh, a little bit?
RCP: Can you tell us what this parade is for? *smiles, gestures to colourful marching people*
Us: Erm...
RCP: *still smiling, watches as a half naked man dances past*
Us: Uh... *trying to figure out how to say "gay" in Chinese*
RCP: Is it a National Festival? *smilesmile*
Us: Uh, no...
RCP: *smiles some more*
Us: Um... we're sorry, we don't know how to explain it... *runs off giggling*
We walked past groups of people lined up under banners and ready to march. Briefly, we wondered if we should try to join one of them. I for one thought that we should have joined "Melbourne Leather Men", but alas, it was not to be. We ended up as one of the cheering onlookers next to a very amusing man who cheered loudly and enthusiastically for everything and everyone that went by. Several choice phrases:
"GAY TREKKIES!!! YAAAYYY!"
"GAY CHRISTIANS!!! YAAAAY!!!"
"GAY DOCTORS! GO GAY DOCTORS!"
"GAY GREEKS!!! WOOHOOOO!!"
"GAY BISEXUALS!!! YAAAAYYY!!"
It was very amusing.
Anyway, here are some pictures that I took. I resized them a little to make it easier for those on my flist with less well endowed connections. :-D
Warning: At least one picture contains manboobies.
Apparently gay pride flags only have 6 stripes. You learn something new every day.
I want those rainbow trousers.
Lesbians or drag queens? I'm going to go with drag queens. What do you think?
Gay Trekkies!!1 Yaaay!!
I wonder why they have numbers...
Melbourne Leather Men. We would have fit in so well...
*winces*
Gay bears!
Gay stilts!
Gay cows? Or just... fruity, landscapey ones.
See those cars on the other side of the road? They were held up at the traffic lights for long stretches at a time while the long, long column of pride marchers crossed the road. I could see a loooong line of cars lined up all the way down the road. Heh.
The Catani Gardens, which is next to the beach. This is where all the people ended up.
After the arduous march, Jackie and I treated ourselves to overpriced rainbow gelati. And then I bought a rather phallic looking corn-on-a-stick. I would have taken a picture of it, but my camera ran out of batteries.
At one point, we were approached by two polite but creepy religious guys who gave us pamphlets and asked a few probing questions. *shudder* Luckily for them, they didn't say anything stupid like "homosexuality is evil and you're going to hell" outright, because I would have beat them with my corn-on-a-stick.
I tried to find a hot lesbian dressed up as Xena who I could fall for. It would be perfect - we'd have a whirlwind romance, get married, and have many babies. Sadly, she was nowhere to be seen.
Jackie kept count of how many times I went "Ooooh! Hot lesbian!". We think it was about 7 or 8 times that I did it unwittingly, passionately and eyes-light-up-ly. The other times were all just lukewarm.
The world needs more hot lesbians damnit.
