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Business Association. 6 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #45, July 2007 The Pride is Right Letter from the Publisher Martha Stewart mum- By Rob Diaz-Marino mifi cation of a willing audience member. It was a novel thing for us to attend Edmonton Gay With a selection of Pride this year, as it was the fi rst time we have been props and items, each to a Gay Pride event outside of Calgary. We were candidate wrapped up extremely glad to be a sponsor of both cities this and dressed up their month, but it made for a very busy two weeks. volunteer. The winning mummifi cation – what In Calgary it fi nally didn’t rain on our parade! In fact, looked to me like a gar- it was a beautiful day and probably the best attended Gay dening grandma gone Pride I have seen in the last fi ve years that I‘ve been out. horribly wrong - was The parade was signifi cantly better than the 10-minute won- described by judges as ders of years prior, and following it a sea of people, all con- reminiscent of Michael verging on Olympic Plaza. Not a single protestor that I saw, Phair. This was a name but thank god, nothing like the scandal that marred Gay that I would be hearing Pride last year. With the sun still out, people stayed longer a lot this weekend. at the street festival rather than immediately running out to Indeed, Steve and the bars. The plaza pool was full of water which turned into I were both amazed a large wet dance fl oor, on which many youth frolicked as at how often we saw the DJ blasted tunes across the park. Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman and City Councillor Michael We did our usual routine of popping over to photograph Phair – they were at practically every Edmonton Pride event all of the post parade parties at the bars. At fi rst, things that we covered! Even at the Northern Chaps Mr. and Ms. were a little slow but picked up as the street festival wound Leather Competition, both showed up. They presented down. The Backlot was full of chatter and laughter; Money Laurie with a T-Shirt that read “Member Leather Assembly”, Pennies was decked out with major rainbow banners, and but Michael stole the show when he turned up in full leather had a live band and outdoor beer garden; Twisted had the gear. To the audience’s delight, he was escorted onto the fi rst ever female version of their Wet Wednesday competi- stage and spanked by a leather daddy twice his size! He was tion, and gave away some rather large door prizes; the patio also the fl amboyantly dressed umpire at the softball game at the Eagle was so packed that you couldn’t move, and that pitted members of Edmonton’s gay community against Barry was on the grill serving burgers. It was a day of cel- the City of Edmonton Police. Sadly we lost, but seeing the ebration…and in our case, satisfi ed exhaustion. policemen changing back into their uniforms was ample compensation. To attend Edmonton Gay Pride, we regrettably had to cut out on our Calgary Pride Dance (though our writer Ja- One event that particularly impressed us was the Mayor’s son still showed up to snap some photos). The parade in Brunch, attended by Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel him- Edmonton was fabulous but didn’t seem to go on as long self! Proceeds of the event went to sponsor Camp fYrefl y, as Calgary’s. A nasty downpour started just as things were and they announced the launch of a new scholarship spe- wrapping up, leaving everyone running for cover on their cifi cally for members of way to the street festival. Though the rain subsided, the the GLBT community. clouds still hovered ominously over the festivities. I have to It would be monu- admit that Edmonton’s street festival beat ours out with the mental if we could get larger venue of Churchill Square. The beer garden encom- Calgary’s mayor more passed a stage where various drag queens and performers involved with our Gay from The Roost and Buddies put on a fabulous show to keep Pride festivities…may- the masses entertained. This included a relay race on the be in time. sidelines, where drag queens and Edmonton Pride volun- My birthday this teers competed for fun. year fell on a Monday, Although I usually stay behind in Calgary, the long list of however I celebrated it events happening during Edmonton Pride (some of which the Sunday while we overlapped one another) made Steve insist that I come along were still in Edmon- to help. The night before the Parade, I photographed the ton. After the softball Northern Chaps Leather Cocktails held at The Roost. There game, Steve and I split was quite a large contingent of people in attendance from off from the masses to Calgary, which made me feel at home.