still no Pride in rhode island…
Okay, so last Sunday (in addition to our weekly Sunday at State — plug, plug, plug) was the annual Miss Gay Pride Pageant, sponsored of course by RI Pride, and probably to benefit AIDS Care Ocean State. Anyway, it took place at Mirabar this year, ever since everyone decided to stop doing events at Gallery (because it’s a dismal, industrial-looking franken-ant-farm of a space) — which is fine by us since Mirabar’s 3rd floor space is beautiful and its killer sound system remains underused.
We didn’t go so we can’t say much, but what we do know is that some fat bitch (whose identity we still do not know) from Massachusetts won the title against several drag messes that were at least from here and participated regularly in the local scene. Now we’re sure that there are no rules that bar anyone from participating based on where they’re from — but shouldn’t there be? Shouldn’t Miss Gay Pride RI actually be from Rhode Island?
If some unknown drag queen from a foreign land swoops in and beats out every local contestant, exactly what does that say about our pride in Rhode Island if we’re happy to have it represented by someone who had to drive five hours to get here?
Thoughts?
Well Miss Gay RI lives in MA too so . . . . .?
Miss Gay Pride isn’t like Miss America or even Miss Gay RI, in that it is in effect a one day title. The people on the sidelines cheering her on, probably weren’t at the pageant as the small group of people who actually CARE about all of this pomp are usually either in the parade or waiting at PPAC. I normally love this blog, but in this circumstance, there just isn’t much “there” there… you know? You’d probably have a better time trying to make people care whether or not someone wipes from front to back.