Happy (post) Pride! I hope everyone had a fun weekend, whether you were Pride-ing or not. I had lots of ridiculousness this weekend (in a good way) and thought I’d share what I did.
Friday night I went to Backlot Bash, a mini music fest in my neighborhood behind a local gym. (Hence the ‘backlot’ part.) My neighborhood, Andersonville, is pretty lesbian-y, and Backlot Bash is specifically women-focused. A friend of mine was very excited about the Friday musicians, as they were all acoustic, so we had dinner together and went over. She made yummy vegan pad thai, which was a new culinary experience for me, but much fun.
Backlot Bash was pretty perfect for a Friday night. Saturday and Sunday are usually pretty crazy, but Friday was lots of folks in lawn chairs, good lesbian acoustic rock and folk, and really excellent people watching. It also ended around 10, which was good since I wanted to get as much sleep as possible to prep for Pride. But I definitely want to look up the musicians who played – Katie Quick, Katie Todd, Edie Carey, and Catie Curtis – as they were all excellent.
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Last year I was able to go to the Chicago Dyke March, which was a ton of fun. However, it left me too exhausted to actually go to the Pride Parade the next day, meaning I missed it entirely.
Last night, I was volunteering at a benefit for the theatre company that I’ve been working with for 15+ years. I absolutely want to help the theatre, and am thrilled the event was (from what I could tell) a success, but I didn’t really want to be there. If you know what I mean. I’m glad I did it, but didn’t have fun.
This partially had to do with my friends. I was helping at the check-in and check-out table, meaning I was working basically from 4PM until after 11PM. My friends were spotters for the live auction, meaning they were only working for an hour or so here and then, and then just hanging out.
I ended up staying for the after party, held for all the volunteers, which was looking to be a lot of fun until I crashed around 1AM and ended up taking a cab home. Meanwhile, I heard the after party was still rocking until about 4AM.
So again, today, I was too exhausted for the pride parade. I think I’m going to try to go to the Andersonville Back Lot Bash later tonight, but I’m kind of disappointed in yet another ‘meh’ Pride.
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