Parade and festivals - how to attract more to downtown

[halifaxboyns]

It's not for everyone and as an openly gay man, I do agree that some of the outfits are a little much for young childrens eyes. I know two older guys who were virtually nothing and nothing made me more ill than seeing their old pimply asses on their motorbikes. There is nothing wrong with people not wanting to go; it's like any other event/thing - if it doesn't interest you, why go? I don't want to spark a huge debate about it, but I'm glad that you qualified yourself fenwick that you wouldn't go to a str8 parade either. Nothing gets me more annoyed when people post that tired old saying. I've not had my first coffee of the day; so I'd easily get annoyed lol.

But I think part of the reason pride is that way is to get attention. For so many years gay rights were non-existant. I guess in way, now that it's come full circle and we have most of the rights we fought so hard to get; it's hard to move away from being the typical festival, with the gets up that are a bit much.

Oh well; I guess in my mind you can't have a festival without some skin and I'd happily take my kids to it. Just glad it's not like Calgary's where skin heads and KKK members show up to protest. Although I'll never forget last year when 8 drag queens beat up two KKK guys. Now that; you have to admit is funny.