Queer Liberation March

It may not have been as big or as loud or as mobbed as World Pride but this march eschewed corporate sponsorship and was a lot more accessible.

Several thousand participants marched from Sheridan Square up Sixth Avenue to the Great Lawn in Central Park, the same route as the first gay pride march in 1970.  In 1978, everyone ended up in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, where I  camouflaged myself as a photographer.  Thom and I caught them just as they arrived at 57th Street.

Reclaim Pride, which organized the event, did not accept NYPD's recent apology for its role in harassing queer people for decades.

But marchers honored gay culture, too.  I didn't see any Klaus Nomi signs downtown.  Not that I could see much downtown!

I wish I'd gotten a picture of the Saint Bowie sign!

Everybody's got a cause:  NYC Intactivists!

Camp: Notes on Fashion

Susan and I went to high school together in El Paso.  We met at the Metropolitan Museum at Art while she was in New York.  I hadn't seen her in nearly 20 years.

It was way too crowded to really enjoy the very homosexual Camp exhibit.

Except when you entered the mind-blowing gallery at the end.  It resembled the set of "Hollywood Squares" (minus Paul Lynde).

Fabulous outfits require fabulous accessories!

2/5

Varick and I started our 2nd Pines weekend with a healthy lunch:  beets tossed with celery, walnuts, red onion and feta cheese, and a hard-boiled egg.

A most excellent game of Scrabble followed with more interesting words than usual.

A young, distressed northern gannet (adults are white) allowed me close enough to snap a close-up.  It didn't react as pleasantly to a curious Labrador retriever a few minutes later.

Our house is a great place to watch the sunset, especially around this time of year.

But none of us expected the light show we got Friday evening.

Filterless!

Two nights later it looked like this.  

Beauty is never hard to locate on Fire Island.

We just don't have as many weekends to find it this year.

The Grove's bounty.

On Sunday night we dined on appetizers while watching the Tony awards.

By the time we return in mid-July, the beach replenishment project will have begun.