Up Close at the 2023 New York City Pride Parade

– Watching and Marching –

Getting ready at home (my head still wet from the shower)…

She said we were a “cute couple”…

Our vantage point for the first three hours of the parade – East 22nd and 5th ave.

That’s lesbian comic / jazz singer Lea DeLaria at the front of the God’s Love We Deliver bus.

Lea DeLaria

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 winner Symone

The parade continued on for several hours while Ed and I got lunch and waited at 26th street with the Quakers alongside other groups getting ready to join the march.

Finally the Quakers were threaded into the parade.

This year we were the next to the last group, followed by the Buddhists (later the parade volunteers would form the final final marchers).

The parade had been going on for over 6 hours, but many stalwarts were still cheering us on.

Is it a dachshund or a quaker spaniel?

Eighth Street

Christopher Street

Turning up onto Seventh Avenue

Exhausting indeed … 🙂