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Yesterday was the London Pride Parade, and I had the chance to be in it.
No, I'm not gay, non-binary, gender fluid, transexual, asexual, or any other type. I'm simply pro people being themselves (which is funny since I'm not always myself around people). I do have a joke about how there are more types of sexuality (or lack of it) nowadays than maybe even 20 years ago, and it feels like maths, when at first you had plus and minus before all that hullabaloo came and filled your head (no, that's not the joke, it's just a summary). Getting back to it, there was a lot of fervor, plenty of people in outfits you wouldn't normally see on the streets in daytime, and a lot of noise. If you don't like noise, people cheering, and disco chants, this wouldn't have been for you. A bunch of buses with some floats, which I couldn't see much of as I was mostly behind one, so I simply smiled and waved. At some point, on Oxford Street, the most known high street in London (due to big shopping stores), our bus put on Geri Halliwell's "It's raining men" and a bunch of guys started dancing around me, whereas girls past the barricade, who came to look at the spectacle, started throwing their hands in the air. Nearer the end, as we Trafalgar Square, we had Madonna's "Vogue", and some of the males started doing something so choreographed it felt unreal for it to be made on the spot. Also, gay guys dance much better than straight guys. Or girls for that matter. It was definitely a different change of pace for me to be in a parade, since I always saw them in movies or simply on TV and figured it'd be cool to be in one, and now I had that opportunity. If you do have the chance to be in one, of any kind, do yourself a favour and do it. Oh, and I look kinda sad because I was underslept. Hard to be really smiley when you've slept 5 hours a day for the past 4 days, but I managed later on. My cheeks are still adjusting to my upper lip bending the other way.
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