Oaxaca Pride

[bixaorellana]

A friend and I were all set to attend a Pride parade today. It seemed to have been rather scantily advertised, but we assumed that the word was out. Anyway, it's Oaxaca -- it was sure to be delightfully whimsical at the very least, right? We were so determined to get to the forming up spot that we took a taxi even though it was in walking distance of my house. The cab driver was surprised when we told him we were going to a Pride parade that started at the Fountain of the Eight Regions, commenting that he had just come from there & nothing was going on. Indeed, when we arrived there were not that many people milling around the fountain, although the rainbow this that & the other meant we were in the right place. It was a cheerful crowd, but hardly exuberant ~

Somebody had decided to move the banner so it would flow down from the top of the fountain.
This was a good decision, except that it coincided with a shower of rain, some of which landed on my camera ~



Extreme glamour ~



No glamour ~



Interviews were given ~

At this point we'd had enough of milling around waiting for the parade to begin, so decided to stroll back into town.
We figured we'd run into the parade at some point.

[bixaorellana]

Somehow we wound up in front of the killer pastry shop on Alcalá. We were rather disappointed to have neither seen nor heard any parade, but assuaged that sorrow with excellent sweet flights of fancy and delicious coffee.

Leaving the pastry shop, we were ready to set off for our respective homes, but decided to just nip over to Santo Domingo since it was so close.
We arrived just as the parade was coming up the street from the opposite direction ~

[kerouac2]

You got some excellent pictures there. I particularly like the composition of the 3rd from last since it is so hard to get flags to unfurl properly.

[bixaorellana]

And coming to the end ~

The parade participants all went up in front of the church. We stepped up there too, but everyone was soon routed by the rain ~

~ Fin ~

[onlyMark]

Love the boots. Jeez, how do you walk in them?

[breeze]

Is "nosotres" inclusionary language?

[casimira]

Jun 28, 2021 7:45:43 GMT onlyMark said:

Love the boots. Jeez, how do you walk in them?

I was about to post the exact same thing.

Pleased to see so many people out and demonstrating their pride.

Thanks for getting out there Bixa and sharing this with us.

Great photos!

[lugg]

Such colour; the thing that I always appreciate in all your Oaxaca threads Bixa. Now seeing these pics on a grey rainy day ( both here and there) makes me appreciate that even more

Jun 28, 2021 4:48:22 GMT bixaorellana said:

but hardly exuberant

I don't know if I agree as I think it seems exuberant ; given these times . At least there are many smiling faces either behind or without masks.

Anyway love this thread , thank you

[bixaorellana]

Thanks to all!

Responses in order:

It appears when banners are moistened just right, they will in fact unfurl as required.

My other boots are higher and with pointier toes.

Good eye, Breeze! I in fact had missed that detail. Lotsa luck trying to get a Romance language to be inclusionary. A young person told a friend of mine recently that she now refers to individual cats as "gate", to avoid that pesky gato/gata thing.

As to exuberance, we felt sorry for those who showed up at the fountain to a scanty drizzled-on crowd as the hour approached for the march. It was obvious that some of the participants also thought it might turn out to be a fizzle. That made the sight of the large group happily coming up the pedestrian street all smiling and chanting slogans quite heartwarming. So yes, ultimately there was exuberance.

I tried but failed to get a snap of the guy holding up a cardboard sign that read "Free Britney!"

[tod2]

So colourful! I think it must take an awfully long time to get ready judging by some of the costumes!