Hey All,
The fun activities for Pride Weekend continued on Sunday. For the festival, I met up with about 60 folks from one of my favorite meetup groups. The festival went from 11 AM to 5 PM. There was a lot of musicians, street performers, food and beer, local and national vendor booths and all the shops and restaurants along the 5 blocks of the festival that were closed off to traffic were open for business.
I car-pooled from Tampa with “Jo” a friend of mine. She was so nice to offer to drive as my left leg was hurting (still from the injury I sustained a month ago in the Keys). “Jo” actually ended up being the winner of a really cool bike from one of the local banks im free raffle. We actually were talking about that raffle on the way home bavk to Tampa and how cool it would be if she won as she wanted to start bike-riding. I was really happy when I found out the next day that she won! I told her it was because she had been so nice on Sunday morning to have taken the time to accompany her elderly dad to church that morning and for helping me out by graciously volunteering to drive to the festival.
Enjoy the pictures!
Have a great weekend!
Gary
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Your usual good event shots, Gary, including some nice ones of you
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Thanks Derrick
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Great fun!
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Nice crowd, good group of friends and great activities
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You’re going to have to show her some of your bike riding spots!
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Very nice Gary! Looking good!
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Great photos and videos, Gary! I am very happy to see that it was not only an important event, which it was, but also lots of fun.
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Thanks Dolly. These things are always festive and everyone isso nice.
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About 30 years ago, I lost quite a few friends to AIDS. Those events were not as open and definitely not as festive as they are now. I think it is important to keep them fun and exciting, as well as politically charged.
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Glad to see that these events have become much more family friendly and that you now get participants in the parade and in the audience from all walks of life. Half if not more of the attedees are not even gay, but just accepting of people are just believe that we should all be ourselves and to love one another.
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You have expressed it so well, Gary!
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