7 August 2010 Gay Pride Parade

Brighton & Hove is host to the largest pride parade in the UK every year. We stepped out to catch a bit of the parade hoopla: lots of feather, lots of pink, lots of drag queens, lots of pirates. It reminded me of New Orleans. We saw one particular swashbuckling pirate leave the parade and then later, we saw the same…man, woman? (I’m not sure) browsing the aisles of our local chemist. “Mommy!” whispered Sam excitedly, “There’s the pirate!” We also saw two women dressed up as Dorbies (what Sam calls Barbie dolls). They were impossibly tall, impossibly blond, in pink tights and blue leotards. Dorbies and Pirates. Sam was in heaven.