my feelings on pride could be summed up with this quote from our shitty local paper, the seattle times:

"Mr. Leather 2002," Tony Buff, said he and his partner, Tim Parsons, were at the event "for the eye candy" but more importantly, to help bring the community together.

i was really, really disheartened by the middle of the day. so i gave a bunch of rude young queers bad directions to this houseparty they were trying to find. that made me feel a bit better.

the name Tony Buff gave me a boost, too. i wonder if he was the "guy" in the leather g-string and angel wings.