It wasn’t as hot and humid as it has been up here in the North East, but it was hot enough if you had to march the full length of Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the annual Pride Parade.
Most know that the Pride Parades all over the country and across the world celebrate the events of June, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village that were pivotal in the civil rights struggle for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans.
And now this past June, June 24 to be precise, President Barack Obama designated the section of the neighborhood around the bar, the approximately 7.7 acres that include the Stonewall Inn, the historic Christopher Park, and surrounding streets and sidewalk, as a national monument, the first to honor the history of the GLBT community in the United States.
So this year rangers of the National Seashore on Cape Cod took part in the Provincetown Pride Parade.
They included in their entry Veterans and Friends of the Stonewall Rebellion, among them David Bermudez who was in the bar at the time of the raid, Bob Isadore his spouse since the first year of Marriage Equality in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having been married on the anniversary of the rebellion and who have been a couple for around 42 years, and yours truly.
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For nostalgia and a tribute to my friends who have fought and continue to fight for equality in Oklahoma, I wore the pride rings I wore everyday of my 17 years as a teacher in Oklahoma City.
As an extra bonus, this year is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service, and we marched with the Regional Supervisor whose district includes The National Sea Shore and the New Bedford Whaling National Park in the center of which stands the New Bedford Whaling museum where I do my three times a week volunteer work of whaling ship log transcription, teaching a cartooning class, and being a wandering question “answerer”.
She is not the one in pink.
I will confess that I carried the banner for most of the parade, but handed it off to a younger man, and finished the parade sitting in the air conditioned cab of the NPS utility pickup truck waving to the crowd from the open window.
The rangers from the NPS had a great time, and those of us used to such events were thrilled that they not only had a great time, but were really glad they had been involved in this historic event.
