Ok, I know I am beginning to go on a bit but I am beginning to get more excited by the minute. Pride is always fun, DTPM is always amazing but Brighton Pride is like the Platinum of Prides. After all of the fun we have had at EuroPride and Soho Pride which are just day events imagine how much fun a whole weekend of it will be.
Last year I went Friday to Sunday making it the first year that I have actually stayed prior to the main event. The city transformed into an apprehensive excitable state. Driving in past Preston park seeing the fun fair and marquees all erected and ready for the huge park festival. With in excess of 130,000 people expected there will likely be not an inch of grass that is covered in swarming masses of people having a great time.
Friday evening will commence with a relaxing dinner and drinks with friends. Unlike last year I do not intend getting drunk on the Friday evening and being hung over all day Saturday. I was thinking of getting an early night but seems Jaffa Joe is hosting a party and now that me and G are on the Guest List, it would be rude not to make an appearance. I was going to go down early with Richard and Mark tomorrow but seeing as I seem incapable of EVER getting an early night to sleep, I figure a sleep in may be best before I meet G and make our way down to the coast.
Saturday will be a Champagne Brunch at Mark & Richard (the leather Queens) hotel suite at the Grand and then we will make our way down towards Preston Park to watch the Parade coming in. Wild Fruit is where you are likely to find us for most of the afternoon, pausing to peruse the market stalls or the fairground. So with all this excitement and the fact that half of my dearest and closest friends on the planet will be there means it will be a stonking weekend. With any luck the man of my intentions will end up in my bed and it will be a wild wild weekend for the Vauxhall Cowboy.
Yeewhore. Yes, Yeewhore, its what Neil Sexton has now started to call me on the air and seems half of the Chat Room refer to me it by that name now too. Not that I mind. Not at all actually. I have always been one that is fond of Nicknames and so what if it’s a little derogatory? Its not like I have done anything to hurt anyone or to intentionally spite. Its just a harmless bit of fun and after all if you cant laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at. I have to confess though I did get revenge (so to speak) with Neil when I was on air with him earlier this week. He had mentioned to me, while on Hold prior to going on air, that he had a thing for and quite liked “Hairy Bottoms”. So during our brief chat on the air I stopped him and said, “What’s this I hear you have a thing for Hairy Bottoms?”. The silence he gave me was histerical. Its not often you shut up a radio presenter after all. Bless him. I wouldn’t do it to anyone I didn’t like and Neil is one of the best. Really lovely guy. Catch him presently covering Sam Vangeen’s show from 1400 – 1700, Monday to Friday and Saturday morning on Gaydar Radio, Sky Channel 0158, DAB Digital Radio in London and the South East and via the interweb at www.gaydarradio.com If you have trouble accessing via the web try www.gaydar.co.uk/jaffa_joe . Joe is a friend of mine and has somehow got a link to the station from his profile. If anyone can work out how this is done can you let me know, please? Ill pay you (In Kind!) Yeewhore! Hehe
Neils usual Slot ( no pun intended) is Breakfast Mon – Fri from 0700 – 1100. Check out the hilarious combination of Neil & Jason as they get you up with the fresh & funky mix or music & shenanigans.
So my long weekend will commence as soon as I finish work today. (approximately around 1530). I have already packed my suitcase. Not like me at all. I have been known to go on a two week holiday to California and still not have packed when I get home from the nightclub Crash at 7AM and my flight is 1100 from Heathrow. I guess its an excitement thing.
As long as the weather is dry and its half as much fun as previous years it will be a blast.
This year will be the first Brighton Pride for both Emily & Gill. (Brighton Pride Virgins). Emily & I have a thing about not pronouncing our letter R’s. I don’t know why? Its just a Posh Thing that started when we were in the Algarve in May. It just founded posh to always drop your R’s, especially when you were talking about or with Judith Chalmers who lives next door to mum (She’s really nice and not the Orange colour everyone expects her to be). So with the letter R being dwopped we are meeting at the Gwand for for Champagne Bwunch and then on to Pweston Pawk faw Bwighton Pwide and lashings and lashings of Ginger Beer.
With any luck I will meet up with the whole gang, Jaffa Joe, Gary, Neil, Jason, Gizmo, Pojocarr, Partytone – the entire chatroom entourage. The funny thing is that I have met them all bar Gizmo and he and I are like the longest serving members of the chat room community. Well he does live in the Midlands and I don’t get up there as much as I used to (well unless I am on my way to make a review of the Greenhouse in Darlaston and that doesn’t count as its all for the sake of the book.
Plus in addition to the Gaydar Chat room boys (I want to call them the Fraternity of listeners – Hmm – side thought here, if we are like a Fraternity, I shall be the Frat King and therefore the boys will have to do an initiation service like they do at Fraternities within the American College system. Could be fun – I like the sound of that.
Who else is coming? Well the Leather Queens, Mark & Richard, Little Stuart (who’s far from little), Lee & his boys, Mikey, Alex, Steven & Michael. Hardly surprising that with so many of us down for the weekend I am looking forward to it. Happy Pride Everyone, see you at the Coast!
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