Here are other pictures from the ferry between Vallejo and San Francisco on Pride Day.
Ferry Ride to Pride
Category Archives: Gay
San Francisco Pride 2023
We’re not part of the official Facebook group called Fairies on the (Vallejo) Ferry, but here is a gaggle of six of us riding together this morning on the way to SF Pride!
These first two photos are of Shando and me in front of City Hall where we got married in December 2018. Patrick and William W. got married there too!
I filmed Patrick, William, and Shando going through this feature at the Faerie Village during San Francisco Pride below. I wish I would have captured the moment right after the video ended when William said, “I felt like the Little Mermaid.” Awww, how gay is THAT? Perfectly gay.
Concord Pride Tabling for LGBTQMinusTobacco
Happy to help where I can with this cause! Brian Davis of LGBTQ Minus Tobacco and I tabled in Concord where they had a nice pride event. It’s nice that I was recognized by a few folks despite this being over the water from where I live and still pretty far from where I lived when I was in the East Bay all those years. I did work nearby in Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hill area for six years, but this is an important cause and there is momentum with the Tobacco Retail License here that the City of Concord has in the works. I hope I was able to bring some awareness to the locals.
Solano Pride Picnic Speech about TRL
Group photos of attendees taken with a drone!
My friend Tom Bilbo gave me a chance to talk about the activism I’m doing with LGBTQ Minus Tobacco and a coalition of other organizations at today’s picnic. The microphone was faulty, but it was a great opportunity to also talk about the Tobacco Retail License we’re working on with the City Council in Vallejo and our accomplishment last year with the Smokefree Multi-Unit Housing ordinance that passed unanimously with City Council.
UPDATE: There was an article that mentioned us in the Vallejo Times Herald on Monday, June 13. Check it out here.
Vallejo Pride Dance at Naval Historical Museum
On Saturday night, the Vallejo Historical Museum held a Pride Dance. Shando and I actually got pulled onto the floor and danced. It was actually a LOT of fun and a wonderful venue with a great DJ.
Happy Pride Month 2023
Happy Pride Month everybody. It’d be terrific if people with faceless profiles didn’t dampen our pride by trying to connect with me on social media, because that’s not something I’ll ever encourage, especially in June!
I’m here for you, together with countless millions, when you need to come out, even though this is not National Coming Out Day, which is also a thing!
Meanwhile, we’re fighting for your rights every day no matter where in the world you live. Don’t let people like Rondha Insantis in his white go-go boots make you feel less than, Floridians. There are people with far more oppressive leaders, but we have to fight bigotry and ignorance everywhere, as WE are on the right side of history.
2023 Gay Pride June Declaration at City of Vallejo
Video of proclamation reading:
March 2023 East Bay Bears Dinner
NYC Friends in Castro
Dear friends, husbands Jim Purpura and Steve Albanese, visited us for the first time since Covid. These were taken in the Twin Peaks bar in the Castro.
Mad Hatter Vallejo Holiday Parade 2022
While we lived here last year, I regret I was too exhausted from the Photos with Santa in 2021 to participate. This year both Shando and I participated. We were highly impressed with the whole shebang. We intend to be even better prepared next year when there will hopefully not be as much rain. I’m glad we all muddled through though!
In a very poignant gesture, Santa Tom Bilbo put a big pink “Q” at the back of the float, which represented our solidarity with our brothers and sisters who were targeted for being LGBTQ (as all of this float’s participants were in that category or an ally). It is also a symbol against gun violence and assault weapons being available for civilians, to paraphrase Tom when being interviewed for Vallejo Times Herald.
