Taking A Break From Serving With Nina, Just To Celebrate. (Photo: Scott Clayton.)

While it was a pleasure to serve booze to hundreds of Pride revelers alongside Nina Arsenault for The 519’s gorgeous Starry Night, I learned something about myself that night: I don’t like to serve people.  Awesome night, though, crawled in at 5-something the next morning, full-on walk-of-shame.

Now What Do I Do With Them?

With my Pride Saturday daytime dates Katherine Amanda and Erin at the beer garden opposite Woody’s.  Can we just discuss how friggen amazing host Miss Butter was dropping rhymes and mothering the dancing boys in the crowd with spray on sun lotion?  It was also great to see my cigar-chomping MLT pal, Robert Tomas, in assless chaps and sexy tattoo sleeve.  By the end of the weekend I would learn he was uncut.

This is my pal, Jill.  We also hung out during Pride, but it was her lesbian tendency to be updownupdownupdownupdownupdown herethereherethereherethereherethere a lot.  Lots of ‘where are you now?’ texting going on.

With my pal, party impresario Steve Ireson, who wasn’t busy being a party impresario for the first Pride in a long time.  Oddly, we had very similar schedules that weekend, so it was awesome to end up hanging with him as much as we got to.

For today’s Pride Post I’d like to share some of the most powerful words and ideas I’ve ever heard about the quest for queer equality:

I don’t know about you but I believe I was born this way. 

And I know – I can feel it with every fibre of my being – that I came in not just being this way, but intending to be this way. 

I hit the ground running, and here I am.

And then I lived in this world that has so many wonderful things about it, and I began to see among the wonderful things, things that were not quite so wonderful. 

And those things … pained me.

Because I want a wonderful world.  Not just for myself but for others.  Somehow I’ve never been able to separate myself from others.  I care about life, I care about well being, I care about upliftment, I want people to be joyful, I want to be joyful.

So in the living of life I gave birth – I could feel it happen – to all kinds of new ideas.  I have a dream about the way life can be upon this planet. I see a time where people can live among one another.  In a variety of personalities, in a variety of genders, in a variety of financial, and sexual, and all every other kind of orientations.  I see a world of such diversity that provides us strength and basis for mighty expansion.  I see a world where in our differences we find our true strengths.  I see a world where, as we come together in our differences – not agreeing with one another, but understanding that our differences provide the basis from which we all create – and that in this creation there is enough for all of us.  I understand that this is a world of unlimitedness.  I no longer believe in shortage, I no longer see limitations and lack. I now understand that people don’t have to think what I think in order for me to think it.  Or be what I be in order for me to be it.  I now understand that I am unlimited, and that all along that this dream I have dreamed has been dreamed by others and has been lived by many. And I am now making claim to all of you that I intend to live my dream.  I am free to be as I be.  I think the thoughts that give me the resonance of that. And I am no longer going to ask the impossible of the world to come into alignment with what I want.  Because I don’t want world alignment, I want diversity. The diversity is the basis of that which we are becoming. 

I need and want only the alignment of me and my dream.

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