Loud and Proud

July 20, 2009

We didn’t mean to show our true colors and be prideful. We just happened to be at the pride place at the pride time. We found ourselves in a company of lions (a pride) where there was a most ostentatious display (a prideful) of reasonable or justifiable self-respect (pride)? 

Yes, everywhere, guys, dolls and golls (guys dressed up as dolls or dolls dressed up as guys or guys and /or dolls dressed up as each other) were just bursting with pride! The city of San Diego celebrated two days filled with parades, music, concerts, floats and partying full of pride. 

Activists recalled with pride 35 years of discrimination and disparity among lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transgendered with LGBT Pride weekend. I always thought that pride was on the one hand, the delight or elation arising from some act, possession. 

Or on the other hand that pride was the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins. It was ultimately the source from which all other sins would arise. This was the desire to be more important or attractive than others. Pride was the failing to acknowledge the good works of others and an excessive love of self. And on this day I learned that pride goes before the fall. And without a doubt, the message from the fit, handsome man on the street was clear. His tight fitting tee said it all: “Swallow my pride.”