I would like to say that there is a lot of inherent beauty in the gay community and I have seen this personally, but the party yesterday for the volunteers at Pridefest was another manifestation. I went to the party and I met quite a few people that were behind the scenes. People who helped to make sure that Pridefest went off without a hitch. Rahn Anderson (the volunteer coordinator) and the new executive director of the Colorado LGBT Centre were there. And it was held at the Denver Film Society’s theatre in the Tivoli building at Auraria Campus. There were all sorts of wonderful people from the Centre and other organizations such as Dikes on Bikes. And there were drawings for prizes (I won a board game - DICK-tionary and a Pridefest polo shirt that I’ll probably wear because it does not look feminine enough) and a movie was shown at the celebration. Before the movie was about to start, one of the people from the Denver Film Society came up to me and asked me to move to another seat that she pointed out. I found it weird but okaaay, whatever. And she announced that there were two memberships to the Denver Film Society that could be won, and then I soon found out why she wanted me to move my seat. Continue reading ‘The Beauty of the Gay Community’
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Well, I am volunteering at Denver Pridefest on both the 21st and the 22nd of this month. I am also going to be marching in the pride parade with my fellow UUs from the Mountain Desert District. So yeah, next weekend is pretty full for me, as I will probably be operating some sort of booth and policing the area to ensure that no one is selling anything at the Pridefest without having paid the GLBT Centre first. Tomorrow is my volunteer orientation so that is what I am doing after I get through with Pathways to Membership at First Unitarian Denver tomorrow. Continue reading ‘Pridefest, yay!’