1 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:13,800 It's a Kiki with Johnny McGee. Gonna spill all the tea, all my 2 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,000 LGBTS. You're in love. 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,480 Cause Johnny the government is gay. 4 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:34,320 Yes, fine. Hello everyone and welcome to 5 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,960 Gay Ass Fuck. I am your host, Mr. John T 6 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:45,160 Mcgarnas, he who is well baby, happy pride. 7 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:50,120 Pride month is upon us. It's my favorite time of year 8 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,880 when everybody puts on their rainbow flags. 9 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,800 Hey, Citibank, what are you doing? 10 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,280 Oh, you're waving your flag. Hey, Wells Fargo, what are you 11 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,680 up to? Are you wearing an assless 12 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,440 jockstrap? Oh, my God. 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,240 Thank you, Wells Fargo. Oh, what about you, Bank of 14 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,640 America? Or you. 15 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,720 You're doing bumps of coke in the back and then taking 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:20,920 poppers, you nasty slut. Way to show your gay support. 17 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,480 Thank you so much, corporate sponsors. 18 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,280 I do love gay pride. And this weekend is the West 19 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:35,280 Hollywood mega Pride event. Well, you know, we're lucky. 20 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,560 We have three different pride celebrations here in Los 21 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,480 Angeles. There's We Ho Pride, then later 22 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,640 there's LA Pride, and then there's TTLA Pride. 23 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,400 So the beginning of Pride season is kicked off with We Ho Pride 24 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,000 and baby, all the stars are gonna be here. 25 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:59,560 Miss Kylie Minogue is performing Janelle Monáe and my most 26 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,720 important and most excited to see Dochi is performing. 27 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,919 Yes, I'm plus Trixie Mattel is DJ admit on the dance floor, 28 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,160 Sophie, Ellis, Baxter and baby, you know what I did? 29 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,560 I'd acted like a grown homosexual and I bought VIP. 30 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,160 Okay, gone are the days where I'm, I'm going to just wait on 31 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,200 the line or have a bad area. Honey, I went and bought the VIP 32 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,240 for all three days because you know what? 33 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,800 Last year I went around to the free area of Pride and I was 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,640 like, I'm not going to buy no expensive ticket. 35 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,720 And you know what? All it was was like the AT&T 36 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,520 booth and the Lube booths out in the street and it just didn't 37 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,680 feel as glamorous as I wanted. So I caved and this year I 38 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,000 bought the the VIP pass for all the days to get in quick and 39 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,720 have a little area to relax and mostly just see the faggotry. 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,760 I love the faggotry of gay pride. 41 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,640 I love all the letters, the L, the G, the B, the T, the Q, the 42 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:02,640 Plus. The Plus is turning it, umm, so 43 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:05,240 that is gonna be fun. I got all my homo homies lined 44 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,800 up. We are going together and we are 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,640 going to have some fun. Be wearing my new giant 46 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:13,800 Balenciaga sneakers, turning a hairy dad look. 47 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,880 So I heart pride and of course I will be going to the gay pride 48 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,960 parade because though it is not the thing of beauty that I wish 49 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,520 the gay pride parade was is. I mean, I wish it was funded 50 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,720 privately by gay billionaires to make it the most cut and 51 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,840 gorgeous thing you've ever seen. You know what I mean? 52 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,360 A gay pride parade so stunning that you people whacked with 53 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,920 glamour. But we don't have that. 54 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,000 But we we do have is Goodwill Go go boys and an occasional 55 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,920 celebrity riding in the back of a car. 56 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,280 So I will be there. And for today's show, I thought 57 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,440 it would be a fun day in honor of pride to actually give you a 58 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,880 Patreon preview. One of my favorite shows we do 59 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,440 on Patreon is a show called Menergy where we go in deep 60 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:08,080 about all things gay, especially in dirty gay stuff. 61 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,840 But we talked to, of course, about many things of homosexual 62 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,960 history and note. And we have an entire episode 63 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:21,000 all about the gay pride parade, our own experiences at Pride, 64 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,960 our crazy stories from Pride, and a history lesson on the 65 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,920 beginnings of Pride and where we think it should go. 66 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,360 So if you like this today, then you're going to want to come on 67 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,400 over to the home of where Menergy and so many other fun 68 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:40,120 podcasts I do are, which is at patreon.com/gayest of all time. 69 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,720 That is where you'll get the closest to me and you'll get the 70 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:49,920 most content, which includes this fabulous show, Menergy with 71 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,280 my homo homie, the hilarious Mr. Katie Marcus. 72 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:59,440 So please to sit back and enjoy a special Patreon preview of 73 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,800 Menergy Gay Pride Parade. Get into it, into it. 74 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:19,440 Get into it. Get into it, get into it. 75 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:32,200 What month is it, Teddy? Pride, Pride, a pride. 76 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,640 The original version. Has. 77 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,120 Not that I don't love Aretha's version. 78 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,160 We can never forget Miss Deborah Cooper. 79 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:55,400 Wait, this is Deborah Cooper. This came out in 91. 80 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,880 It wasn't until around 94 that we got. 81 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:03,040 Honey, that was that was a good one. 82 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,440 I forgot about that one because I got so used to miss things. 83 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,720 Right. I mean, then of course later we 84 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,200 did get this not Street Farm commercial, you fucking 85 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:19,200 homophobic butt head. She just did a karaoke, sweetie. 86 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,080 I've got 20 minutes, everyone. I'm wearing a pride down. 87 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,720 But I've never seen the video because it was from Sister Act 88 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,560 2. Oh, seriously? 89 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,400 Yeah. It's thanks to Sister Act. 90 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:39,720 A lot of things happen from Sister Act, we got Lauren Hill. 91 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:41,800 What? How? 92 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,000 What else, Aretha, do you get up out of bed? 93 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,520 What do you do then? Why? 94 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,400 Is it easy? No. 95 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:04,480 Why? What can you repeat that? 96 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:11,160 But where is the love and what do you call it, right? 97 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:18,200 I say pride, but you know, it's so, it's so perfectly, Anthony, 98 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,840 that it's perfect. It's so perfect. 99 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:24,320 Surprise. Well, everyone, I think that's 100 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,560 how to start it off. It's time for our Pride Month 101 00:07:26,560 --> 00:08:06,000 spectacular on Menergy Teddy. 102 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,760 You know when you hear that organ, that pride organ, my body 103 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,000 goes insane. It it kind of like it just it's 104 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,400 pride. It sounds like pride. 105 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,000 Right, because your organs are all gay and they hear it and 106 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,600 they start shimmying. My organ goes. 107 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,920 Shake. God, a deep love, a pride. 108 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,760 Right. Your liver's like leads move 109 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,000 your your hole is like wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. 110 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,919 Your heart's like pumping blood faster. 111 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:38,080 Is that an organ or what? Is it a synthesizer or is it an 112 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,000 organ? That's a that is an organ sound 113 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,960 on a fence synthesizer. That is that That deep bellowy 114 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,440 organ sound reminds me of pride. Like I love pride. 115 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,640 I love it. We both love Pride. 116 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:59,880 It's Pride Month everyone, and we thought today on Menergy we 117 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:05,360 would take a trip down Pride Lane to talk about the Gate 118 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,360 Pride Parade and its history and our own experiences. 119 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,160 Because we've been to several prides. 120 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,720 We are old. We have been to many, many. 121 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,800 Too many. Many, many. 122 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,760 One is 7 or 8 years of pride, everyone. 123 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,120 I remember when Mr. Bert Convy was the Grand Marshall of the 124 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,920 Pride Parade. Mr. Bert, Miss Bert Convy was my 125 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,280 God. Bert Convy really the. 126 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,480 No, I was gonna say no, no, I think. 127 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,160 And then I'm pride Divas. Hello. 128 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,360 I mean, there's so much to talk about with Fried. 129 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,560 Now What? Teddy, do you remember your 130 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:46,080 first gay pride? I do. 131 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,240 What was? Please take us back. 132 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,000 The. Year is 19 O2. 133 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,520 Let's get into The Time Machine and go back to 1932. 134 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,320 I had a Stagecoach. I parked right there on Santa 135 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,880 Monica Blvd. I painted my Stagecoach rainbow. 136 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,840 That's who painted my horses balls pink. 137 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,400 I My first gay pride was in We hope, believe it or not. 138 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:14,960 Wow. Right. 139 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,880 Like what year? 80 something I want to say 89 140 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,000 maybe I, I, I grew up in Philly, but I didn't go to any of the 141 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,440 prides in Philly until I, I moved to LA, then I moved back 142 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:28,960 to Philly. When I went back, I went to 143 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,560 pride, but my first. You were because you were 144 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:31,600 deeply. Classified. 145 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:35,520 I don't know what it was I. Didn't if gold if they see Teddy 146 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,800 at the pride, they will go crazy. 147 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,040 Don't do it for your Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 148 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,400 Where are you going, Teddy? Right. 149 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,880 Why is a fucker? Why are you proud? 150 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:56,840 The first pride, the first pride parade I was I was spectator of 151 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,840 was in Weho. That was like, I think I want to 152 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,640 say 89 and it was down Santa Monica Blvd. 153 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,960 It wasn't all like corporate and all that Wells Fargo and all 154 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,880 that. It was just a really fun local 155 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,000 neighborhoody, kind of everyone out there having a good time 156 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,600 that I miss that prides. So what at in 89 'cause now 157 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,520 we're that's about 20 years into the gay pride phenomenon 'cause 158 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:28,440 they really started early 70s What what was the vibe? 159 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,000 Cause by the time I came to Pride, it was not quite the 160 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,160 corporate sponsorship shill that it became eventually. 161 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,560 How many people like how? How packed were the streets? 162 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,320 They were packed, but not like, not like, you know, 300,000 163 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,520 people that the cops have to come and disperse everybody. 164 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,320 It was just basically pretty much everybody that you knew 165 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,760 either from the neighborhood or you know, the outer lying 166 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,440 neighborhoods. A couple people from Long Beach 167 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,320 would come. It wasn't like, you know, it 168 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,840 wasn't like a destination and people planned for it and 169 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,360 couldn't wait to get there. And everyone was wearing those 170 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,120 cute little corduroy OP shorts, you know the ones I'm talking 171 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:10,440 about, beautiful colors like Raspberry and Raspberry tank 172 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,200 tops. I think even international mail 173 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,080 was still there. They had. 174 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,640 International Mail was definitely still there. 175 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,880 They probably had a float. They had a in their parking lot, 176 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,080 they had like tents and fun activities and giveaways and 177 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,960 little like fun. There was stuff now like now you 178 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:27,720 go to Pride and it's like pamphlets. 179 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:32,080 And then it was fun things like swag bags that were just really, 180 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,520 really fun. I'm trying to now were what was 181 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,160 your feeling on that first day? Well, I, I kind of, I was kind 182 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,240 of nervous because I always felt, you know, too fat to go to 183 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,320 pride. You know I. 184 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,240 Was like, I don't know if I want to walk the streets with all 185 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,400 these guys from everywhere. You know, I had my cute little 186 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,120 bars that I would go to that everyone was like, Oh yeah, you 187 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,040 were cool there. But this was everybody. 188 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,640 This was bathhouse Queens, Gym Queens. 189 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,600 This was all of them. And. 190 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,800 It was the United colors of faggotry. 191 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,120 It was the United colors of faggotry. 192 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:09,040 So I, I was, I was nervous, but once I got there and was it, it 193 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,200 felt fantastic. And then that organ, honey, you 194 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,400 heard that organ and there was dancing in the streets. 195 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,680 There wasn't like this is the this is the house booth. 196 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,680 This is the, the, the Latin booth. 197 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:23,200 This is It was all one big dance party that was just fun. 198 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:29,840 I'm trying to remember when the first pride that I went to was 199 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:37,280 because I didn't really fully come out until after college to 200 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:42,160 yourself. Well, I mean I had had gay sex 201 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,440 in college and that is what made me say oh I am gay. 202 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,560 I love it because before pre actually having sex with a guy I 203 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:55,120 was very full of torment and whatever else and still trying 204 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,480 to sleep with girls and etc. Sorry ladies, I apologize 205 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:02,240 though, I ate your pussy. How did you hear about pride? 206 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:03,840 How did you know pride even was a thing? 207 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,880 I'm trying to even remember. I don't think I ever went to 208 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,280 Pride when I was in college because I was just up in my own 209 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,600 world and I definitely wasn't about to go to Pride. 210 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,920 But then when I moved to New York and I had passed beyond my 211 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,040 I'm bisexual phase. How long did that last? 212 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,480 Short. It was short, but it was like a 213 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:24,480 it. Was a day. 214 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,520 It was the thing where I felt comfortable and it's still the 215 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:30,440 same, especially with today's youth. 216 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,560 I felt comfortable saying oh I'm bi and it was a step, now I'm 217 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,440 respecting. Bisexuality. 218 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,040 It exists, okay? It's a stepping stone. 219 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,240 Just saying. But it can be. 220 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:46,440 It can be a way to dip out, to put a toe in the water and that 221 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,440 was it for me, but I kinda I can't remember the exact first. 222 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,880 Pride. Was it New York Pride? 223 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,280 Maybe. Probably it's got to have been 224 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:55,760 New York. Pride was flawless. 225 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,040 Oh, you know what? It has to have been New York 226 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,720 Pride because, and, and the thing that I remember most that 227 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,520 I loved about New York Gay Pride, because if you've never 228 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,000 been to New York Gay Pride, the shit is big, huge. 229 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,080 The parade goes from Midtown all the way downtown to the Piers. 230 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:16,960 Is my. Favorite And then there's 231 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,480 usually like a big show. And at that time there was also 232 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,600 they would do had a concert venue on the Piers where we'd 233 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,440 have all the big stars. That's when Whitney Houston did. 234 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,440 It's not right, but it's OK. Like I can't remember anyone 235 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:32,720 else because that's the only important one. 236 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,320 Every big star. Hit Yeah, they were big stars. 237 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,440 Not just those dance Divas. You know they right Big stars. 238 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,040 But they weren't. They were. 239 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,080 They were. There was always one big star. 240 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,160 But the thing I liked about New York Pride was there was a lots 241 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,160 of local acts, drag Queens, people that actually were. 242 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,600 You would get a gig on Pride if you lived in New York and you 243 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,160 were a performer. Well, that was my favorite part 244 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:56,720 about pride. The Pride gigs were the best. 245 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,960 That's so fun. The thing I remember the most 246 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:04,520 loving about Pride was the Post parade. 247 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:10,760 Walking around in New York when everyone was you just kind of 248 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,240 like buzzing with good game feelings. 249 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,680 Everybody was happy and you felt free and you felt accepted and 250 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,880 you felt loved. And that's what I I love. 251 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,120 That's my favorite part too. I love that after Pride parade, 252 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,240 feeling like everybody's gay, everybody. 253 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,160 Right. Everybody's gay, everybody's 254 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,760 living. You're just having fun. 255 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,760 The vibe is just wonderful. And of course, when I was 256 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,720 throwing parties, Pride was a work holiday. 257 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,200 Amazing. A work holiday and you knew you 258 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,920 were about to make a ton of money no matter what bar, to be 259 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,240 honest, that has ruined me for going out on gay pride for the 260 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,960 rest of my life. Because unless you work at the 261 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,480 party where you just then you're there and you're getting for, 262 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,880 you're just spending. It's like New Year's Eve, 263 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,440 almost. Yeah. 264 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:56,680 And you, it's hard to get in. You can't. 265 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,160 It's. Hard to get in and once you get 266 00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:59,880 in it's really smushy and you know. 267 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,680 And drinks are really pricey and everything's in a plastic cup. 268 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,480 And I hate the fact that everything's in a plastic cup 269 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,240 because, you know, you can't take it outside, but you still 270 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,920 need it in a plastic cup. I think with the first, I think 271 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,119 the first time we actually connected. 272 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,760 Was that a pride? Because you did my pride show at 273 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,280 FUBAR. Right. 274 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:23,319 And that is where Let's Get Soaking where Julie was born. 275 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:27,480 Now I had done shows before that was that was maybe maybe I did 276 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,640 the original Pride show a year prior to Let's get Soaking with 277 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,280 Julie, OK? Yeah, because that was my 278 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,760 favorite show to do at food and we used to do 2 nights. 279 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,000 It was Friday night and Saturday. 280 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,160 So fun. That was the kickoff. 281 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,560 That was maybe the best part of pride for me in the last few 282 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,680 years was those shows, those those my kids. 283 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,760 The audiences were happy, they were packed. 284 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,280 There was a lot of people and everybody came, watched the 285 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,320 comedy show and then boom, Pride season started. 286 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,400 They were out and about and up and down the Boulevard. 287 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,840 I loved it. Now in the last few years, there 288 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:01,000 have been a lot more corporate sponsorships of Pride and like I 289 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,080 did, as though I appreciate the show of support. 290 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,560 I do not need the Wells Fargo, say Wells Fargo. 291 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,960 I do not need every corporate thing. 292 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:16,040 I want to see real gay groups. I want to see the P flag 293 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,080 parents. I want to see trans power. 294 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,200 I want to see black queer community power. 295 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,320 I want to see Dicks. I want to see people covered in 296 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,640 in glitter. Oh honey, glitter story right 297 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,040 here. Oh, right, Teddy, It has a story 298 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,040 about glitter. That was and. 299 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:39,320 Not the Mariah Carey movie. Although when I worked for 300 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,960 Bloomingdale's, you know, I was doing makeup. 301 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,760 I was a cosmetic consultant at Bloomingdale's for a very long 302 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,080 time. What a shock. 303 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:48,440 And Bloomingdale's had a booth at Pride and they said, hey, 304 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:53,480 would you, 'cause I, I didn't want to sit outside in a tent in 305 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,000 the blazing June and LA sun. And they're like, would you 306 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,440 just, you know, spend an hour putting glitter on people? 307 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,160 So I had a little pot of glitter and a brush. 308 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,320 And the guys would come by and we were like, glitter, glitter, 309 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,040 glitter. And then you would glitter them. 310 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,600 But as the night wore on, they didn't want glitter just on 311 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,160 their face anymore. And the Dicks came out. 312 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,840 It was a different time, everyone. 313 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,800 It was she literally would take a a brush, dip it in glitter, 314 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,880 glitter, somebody's Dick and you. 315 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,840 Were not using a brush. I used my mouth you. 316 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,040 Wouldn't you at least were like dumping it out on your hand and 317 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,120 being like, let me, let me get into this. 318 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,240 But they were lined up, Dicks out and it was like nobody. 319 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,280 And I didn't clean the brush in between the Dicks. 320 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,080 They just got glitter dicked. I didn't clean the brush between 321 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,360 the Dicks. Teddy Marcus, that's. 322 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,080 A quote that's a. Shirt 21. 323 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,000 There's a shirt I didn't clean the brush between the Dicks. 324 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,760 That's an audience of one for that shirt, you and me. 325 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,360 Mine. I'll take it. 326 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,440 Right, exactly. Oh my God. 327 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,800 Now one year for pride. I was on a float. 328 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,880 Now you'd think I would have been on a float many years, but 329 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,040 it always was a little. There was just a lot going on. 330 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:12,640 I was usually working to get up so early for it, but one year I 331 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,600 was. 4:30 AM. They start lining up at 5:30. 332 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:20,440 AM And then it doesn't start rolling until noon. 333 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:24,760 But I remember and this was sort of in the height of the gay pimp 334 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:29,320 years, I was on some float dressed as fucking gay pimp and 335 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:36,880 sweetie, I was in my element. It was like waving, giving the 336 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,040 gay pimp like face pointing, doing it. 337 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:48,200 I was yes, I was every, I think even the people the float were 338 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,800 like, check her out. She's she's living, she's pride. 339 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,320 She is living. Oh my God. 340 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,760 Wait, what was the float? It was an actual float. 341 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,840 Yeah, it was like one of those like movin floats. 342 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,440 Was it New York? It was New York Pride. 343 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:06,640 Yeah, I love it. Now. 344 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:13,240 Another time, one year when I was on tour with Dita, I was 345 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,880 feeling my showbiz moans, and they had asked me to host the 346 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,200 Pride mainstage here in West Hollywood. 347 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,120 Like the big OH? I remember that, I remember 348 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:25,840 that, but you were on stage for like 8 hours. 349 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:26,960 Right. It was like the whole day. 350 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,480 And so I flew in, I got up, I got into my outfit. 351 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,800 I was not feeling great about how I looked. 352 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,440 So I was wearing like too many layers. 353 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,400 It was very hot. Now I was supposed to come back 354 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,000 and I had made a big stink with the people at the thing saying 355 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,240 that I wanted Lady Red to be my Co host. 356 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,640 Like I I, I was like, I need her. 357 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,240 You don't have to pay her. I'll pay her on my own money. 358 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,840 She's gonna do it with me. Well, of course I fly back and 359 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,880 then we're supposed to ride together in the back of an 360 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:04,280 antique car down Santa Monica Blvd. for the parade. 361 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:06,120 Waving. Waving right? 362 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,160 So then I get home. Lady Red is having one for her 363 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,680 CVS episodes so she can't do the thing. 364 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:22,360 So I have to then, by myself, sit in the back of this antique 365 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:25,080 car waving. Now, the good thing about the 366 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,720 New York Pride is that the streets are wide, OK? 367 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,000 And if you're on a float, you're like kind of high up, and it 368 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,600 mostly moves. And maybe there's music. 369 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,480 But when you do the West Hollywood parade, it's a smaller 370 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,800 track that you're on and. You're stuck in there. 371 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,440 You're like you're stuck. You're stuck. 372 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:49,840 So what would happen is we would go down the street waving, 373 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,560 waving, It's fine. Like this is going to be over 374 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,400 soon. Sure, there's some some 375 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,920 applause. People are like, oh, look, then 376 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,840 stop. Then the car stop. 377 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,000 So then you're just there sitting and there's no 378 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,200 protection of like 20 other people with you. 379 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,720 It's just me and the man from the from the antique auto ship 380 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:16,000 dealer, the bear who's from that place and and me and then the 381 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,200 people who already a clap for me are just like pointing there he 382 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,760 is. Then the other people who don't 383 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,160 know who I am are just stare at you and it now, if I had Lady 384 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,880 Red there, I we would have been able to just Kiki or just 385 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,360 pretend we don't care when you're there alone. 386 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:40,920 It is so sad and pathetic. And then I get to the venue, 387 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,600 'cause if you do one of those mainstage brides, and this is 388 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,040 the big, big one, they are huge. So in the beginning of the day, 389 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,840 it's kind of small, but then by the time the night rolled 390 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,680 around, now we're talking Dua Lipa, it's Christina Aguilera, 391 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,400 Cece Peniston, They, they were all. 392 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,280 So that actually did become really fun because then there 393 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,640 was like, oh. That was the And that's when you 394 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,280 you did you, didn't you meet Christina Aguilera? 395 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,720 Well, not meet. In fact, we were told to not 396 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:11,880 look at her. Don't look. 397 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,160 In the eye, Don't look Christina in the eye. 398 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,600 She was there and she was surrounded by security and that 399 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,560 was when the girls all came out and Christina looked and then 400 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,000 Christina went came out to surprise them, but no one in the 401 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,600 audience could see Christina because the drag queen all 402 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,560 mobbed her the minute she came on stereo. 403 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,080 This was just three years ago, four years just before. 404 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,480 Pandemic 2018. Yeah, yeah. 405 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:42,920 Oh my God. 2018 or 2019 20/18/2018 So that was a good 406 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,800 and bad pride memory. I'm trying to think of some of 407 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:52,880 my I mean, I just mostly just love the vibe on Pride. 408 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,760 That's my favorite. I used to love just walking 409 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,680 around. I didn't really need the feel 410 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,600 the need to be in a float 'cause it's not about like glory or 411 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,400 waving. It's just about like and soaking 412 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,520 up all the gay. Energy being on the float, it's 413 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,480 kind of almost embarrassing. And for me, I was on a float 414 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,920 once and had no reason to be on the damn float. 415 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,760 It wasn't even a float. It was a double Decker, one of 416 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,160 those red double Decker buses. And I was sitting at the top and 417 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,640 we were following. Margaret Cho was in the car in 418 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,520 front. And so all the comedians, like 419 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,640 the out gay comedians were on there. 420 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,720 They asked me to be on it. Nobody knows who I am. 421 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,600 I'm up there waving like I am. I am Christina Aguilera and 422 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,800 people are waving and I can. I literally see people mouthing 423 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,480 who's that? And I'm thinking to myself, what 424 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,080 am I doing up here? Why am I here? 425 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,000 You couldn't get off and if you had to pee, what do you do? 426 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,160 Like it was no, I was like, you know what? 427 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:51,440 My fantasy of being waving on from a float is fulfilled and if 428 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,920 I never do it again, I'm OK. I felt that way too. 429 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,400 I was like, I've done this. This was great. 430 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,880 You know, maybe at a different time, if I suddenly skyrocket in 431 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,480 fame and everyone knows who you are, that's that's a different 432 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,760 story. But when it's just a smattering 433 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:14,080 of applause, it's not the same. The worst was we had drove past, 434 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,200 I think it was like trunks and literally I could. 435 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,000 And like you said, when it stops you, you're like, oh, hey, I saw 436 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,440 I heard somebody go, who the Hell's that? 437 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,320 And I just thought, what am I doing here? 438 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,280 Get me off keep. Smiling. 439 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,120 Keep waving well. There's a picture of me. 440 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,680 I have to find it. I am literally waving as if I 441 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,960 were Mariah Carey like I am. Like that's the only thing you 442 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,720 can do on a pride float is you have to just live and wave. 443 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:42,840 You live. And you know what I do 444 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,000 appreciate they're the good vibes of pride is so much that 445 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,800 people will just wave to be not. They'll be like, oh, hi, yay, 446 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,440 and they'll cheer. But then those cheers are short 447 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,840 lived. And then there's the silence. 448 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,520 When The thing is when you got to have music, if you're going 449 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,320 to do a Pride parade, you've got to be on the right float and the 450 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:07,640 float must have music and other people so that when it stops, 451 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,480 you can then put on a little show and then that's fun. 452 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,000 But if you're just sitting, it's just. 453 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,920 Yeah, if you have a, if you have a concept in the float, 'cause I 454 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,400 like the Mickey's float, which is the fire truck. 455 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,160 Yeah, but that's the exact right float. 456 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,240 They have a concept. They have Go Go boys, they have 457 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,840 drag Queens and they have music. It's perfect. 458 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,760 Now there was that's a perfect. There's controversy because they 459 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,960 don't want to see fetish stuff at Pride and they don't want to 460 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,720 see naked guys. They don't want to see people as 461 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,840 pups. They don't want to see. 462 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,280 What do they want to see? Family friendly things. 463 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:39,400 OK, they could have a different foot. 464 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,280 They could go to Disney. Right. 465 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:48,800 The Disney parade, like, look, I just feel that pride started as 466 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,480 a March. Pride started and where we all 467 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:57,400 we as marginalized people and within our community there's 468 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:03,000 even more marginalized people all got a chance to be out loud 469 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,920 and proud, wear their fetish on their sleeve. 470 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,200 Who? Whatever you are, that's the joy 471 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,000 of pride. That's what pride is. 472 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,760 Pride. Like in in in I think both New 473 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,160 York and LA they would start the the parade off with the dykes on 474 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,480 bikes. Always first. 475 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,680 And that right 'cause they're, you know why they're doing 476 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,840 security, they're making sure. The. 477 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,640 Warriors. Titties to the floor. 478 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,800 I was like damn awesome titties. I love titties on my back on 479 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,640 those bikes. And like, we don't need to 480 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,520 please straight people and families should go to family 481 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,640 pride. OK, It's just or, or just get 482 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,520 used to it. Well, I mean, just understand 483 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,240 that pride is an adult thing. Even here they have the whole 484 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,520 leather and fetish. It's a separate. 485 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,800 It's a separate like section like. 486 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,680 Right. But that's like for the that's 487 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,800 in the festival, they would have like a rope or like, you know, a 488 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,400 blocked off area where you thought like, oh God, are people 489 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,440 having sex? And they're not. 490 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,760 No it's not. It's just a Flyers for leather 491 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,920 companies and things. And then a whipping booth. 492 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,720 Right, although there's always some weird whipping booth. 493 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:12,160 I am not pro homogenized pride where everyone has to just this 494 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,840 is how pride goes. Pride is, and if you don't like 495 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,600 it, then don't go to pride, right? 496 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,720 Or just like under tell your children that human bodies are 497 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,440 human bodies and people dressed in weird. 498 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,320 Yeah, the the pups are my favorite actually. 499 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,720 I look forward to them every year because I I don't see them 500 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,240 that often. Because they sniff your butt. 501 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,280 They're hot and there's leather pup masks and their leashes and 502 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,400 their collars. I know, I know. 503 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,760 I want to be Cruella Deville and just have 101 Dalmatian boys. 504 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,280 Oh, that can be arranged, Teddy. I was in Palm Springs. 505 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,120 I think all of your your people were there, you know. 506 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:49,760 Oh my. God. 507 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,400 So I thought we would. Me and Teddy both were like, 508 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,000 when was the first gay pride parade? 509 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,280 So we decided to do a little search. 510 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,960 We did a little. Research. 511 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,320 So that we could give you the facts. 512 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:10,880 Now the the in 65, the gay rights protest movement was 513 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:15,120 visible at the annual reminder pickets, which were organized, 514 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,160 of course, by the lesbians, the Daughters of Bilitis. 515 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:25,800 I love that name. I do love a 60s Greek and Roman 516 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,880 reference because I feel like there were more. 517 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,000 And, of course, the gay men's group Mattachine Society. 518 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,120 Shout out to the Mattachine Society. 519 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,800 You still out there? Y'all was listening. 520 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,800 Hello they're. Still. 521 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,840 I mean, Mattachine is still going sweetie. 522 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,320 And what? A great name though. 523 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,760 It's just such a flawless name. We're members of the Imagine 524 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,520 Society. I mean cause and both these 525 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,720 groups were doing the work because they helped protest at 526 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,760 the United Nations at the White House in 65. 527 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,000 Can you imagine gay protests now still can get attacked and be, 528 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,200 you know, looked down upon by people and belittled and can you 529 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,280 and 65 there? Are my angels. 530 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,680 The homophobia. There's that pride, there's a 531 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,640 Pride five part series, documentary, I think it's on FX. 532 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,200 The pride. The Pride Have you watched it? 533 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,280 I haven't seen. It yet because I do one episode 534 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,120 is the 50s, one is the 60s, ones the 70s ones the 80s and ones 535 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,320 the 90s. It's brilliant. 536 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,800 I only start I only watch the 50s one, but when you watch 537 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,840 especially the lesbians in the 50s because there's nothing like 538 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,280 a 50s lesbian. Honey, honey, she is your gym 539 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,040 teacher. She has that hair, dude. 540 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,680 She's wearing pedal pushers. She looks like Laura Petrie on 541 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,440 the Dick Van Dyke show and she is Dyken. 542 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,080 They did the work. I love that you said that they 543 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:40,320 did the work if it wasn't for them and the men, too, They were 544 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,800 like they talk about in this documentary about how a lot of 545 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,360 people were saying in the 50s they were very closeted and very 546 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,600 sad, and it's not like it is today. 547 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,400 And there was a professor on kind of debating that, saying 548 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,000 no, no, no, they were not very sad. 549 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 They were vocal. They were out there and they had 550 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,760 a good time. And there was actually footage 551 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,400 of underground dances, and they had a blast. 552 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,720 And I look at them and once again, my heart goes out to 553 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,280 them. They're angels to me because 554 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,680 they did the work. 'Cause they were prosecuted and 555 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,320 persecuted and. Their life was on the line just 556 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,440 'cause they wanted to go out and dance. 557 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:13,360 But. You know what? 558 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,040 We're very resilient. We'll always find a way to help. 559 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,360 Honey, we find Dick. Now, so these groups were 560 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:24,880 protesting, but then of course, June 28th, 1969, people rioted 561 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,160 at Stonewall. And that is kind of where the 562 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:34,120 heart of the Pride movement really came from, you know, and 563 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,040 that was a group of transvestites, transgender 564 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,160 people, queers, hustlers, homeless youth, all the people 565 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,000 that were there. And they said, we're not taking 566 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,560 it anymore because that raid on the on Stonewall was thought to 567 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:52,480 be just a normal raid. They were expecting to come in, 568 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,080 fuck shit up and all. You know, I was watching a clip 569 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,520 of Sylvia Rivera, who was at the Pride parade, I mean, at the 570 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,120 Stonewall. And she was talking about how, 571 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,040 you know, all the gay bars were owned by the mob. 572 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,000 And so they had a thing with the police where they'd be like, OK, 573 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,600 on this day of the month, you can come in and do this. 574 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,560 But they were not expecting the fact it's the queers, the trans 575 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,160 and the rest to. Fight back, honey. 576 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,360 Fight back. That's it. 577 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,080 So then since then, and that was kind of what sort of inspired 578 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,880 more the the pride, the gay pride, gay rights, gay 579 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,040 liberation movement. Then we go to like 1970 where 580 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,960 the Chicago Gay Liberation organized a March from 581 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:46,160 Washington Square Park to the water tower and they chose that 582 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,960 date because that was the date Stonewall happened on a 583 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,560 Saturday. So then pride became on a Sunday 584 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,920 and then that's when parades really started happening. 585 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,200 Now West Coast they did start doing shit like that too. 586 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,640 So in in 1970 there was a gay in on June 28th that. 587 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,199 Sounds good, where was that? I would love to have been at 588 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,440 that gay in. And then there was a March on 589 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,639 June 28th in Los Angeles. So in San Francisco there was 590 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:18,159 the gay in Los Angeles there was the March, the March. 591 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,800 And that, you know, that is kind of where things kept going. 592 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,239 And but believe me, the city was not helpful in all of this. 593 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,920 No, I mean, the March was actually a March, I mean, before 594 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,360 it became a parade every year when they would do that. 595 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,440 And I love looking at the vintage photos and the the the 596 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,639 footage of that. They're literally just citizens, 597 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,440 our gay brothers and sisters just walking down the street 598 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,000 with signs, chanting, marching, silent however they wanted to. 599 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:50,360 And that, that's what I I, I love and miss how it became 600 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,199 Wells Fargo. I don't know when that happened. 601 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,639 Well, money came into play. That was when they when they 602 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,600 wanted to show their support. And we realized that we had 603 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,880 money to spend and that they should on Pride month. 604 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,520 Month, yeah. It was January, it was June 605 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,840 28th, now it's the whole month, which I love that the whole 606 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,520 month is gay Pride month. I love that, I love that. 607 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,800 But Wells Far and Disney, you know when Disney comes out with 608 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,360 I had to go to the pride parade one year for my nephew 'cause he 609 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,040 wanted those rainbow Mickey Mouse sticker, which is just 610 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,200 like the Mickey Mouse years. And we waited in that damn pride 611 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,200 line and there they were coming out Mickey Mouse. 612 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,760 But Disney doesn't like officially acknowledge it. 613 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,680 Like they're in the parade, they have the support, but it's not 614 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,840 technically officially acknowledged. 615 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,000 Which was what pisses me off. You know, like they have gay 616 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,440 days at Disney. That's not official either. 617 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,000 Right, that's true. They're doing a delicate dance. 618 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,480 I feel like Disney. I just watched Cruella with a 619 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,600 fully out gay character right in the next two. 620 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:56,840 And. I've got to be like, who's the 621 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:57,480 other one? Her. 622 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,840 Her little assistant with the big black glasses and the goofy 623 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:00,600 hair. Yeah. 624 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,600 And then Arty. The oh right 2 Queens stand 625 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,880 before me. So you know, Disney is always 626 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,600 doing a delicate dance. You're right. 627 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,640 But they I would say that they're doing their pretty good. 628 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:17,600 Ain't nothing gayer than a Disney queen, honey. 629 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,640 Well, now this is an interesting thing. 630 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:24,480 So when they were trying to do that, that March in 1970, they 631 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,680 were trying to do a parade down Hollywood Blvd., but they 632 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,560 couldn't get a permit for the city. 633 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,200 Of course. Now the police chief said, as 634 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,800 far as I'm concerned, granting a permit to a group of homosexuals 635 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,760 to parade down Hollywood Blvd. would be the same as giving a 636 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,840 permit to a group of thieves and robbers. 637 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,040 Are you serious? Yes, this is 1970, sweetie, 638 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,080 because that's when we were deviants. 639 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,720 They called it a deviant bar. Still in the book of psychology 640 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:56,840 as a deviancy. So the police did grant the 641 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,720 permit. The fees were 1.5 million of. 642 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,520 Course there's there's where money. 643 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,920 That's where the money started. And then ACLU stepped in and 644 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,080 they dropped all the requirements except for the 645 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,200 $1500 fee for police service. And then that got thrown out 646 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,680 too, because good old California Superior Court ordered the 647 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,960 police for five protection, as they would to any other group. 648 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,800 Did Miss Maxine Waters lead that? 649 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,800 But I mean, the original pride was dangerous to be at because a 650 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,160 parade of deviants down the street especially could easily 651 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,240 be attacked. And I'm sure that made the news. 652 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,960 And on the news, they said a parade of deviants walk down 653 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,240 Hollywood Blvd. this afternoon. Yeah, and then the advocate said 654 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:41,760 over 1000 homosexuals and their friends staged not just a 655 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,520 protest March, but a full blown parade down world famous 656 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,720 Hollywood Blvd. And. 657 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,480 Now Hollywood Blvd. Look at it honey, when I talk 658 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,800 about deviants. Seriously, straight people were 659 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,760 the worst deviants. Now it looks like now that the 660 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,200 that the Christopher St. W Parade, That's the people that 661 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,400 organized the original 1. They're moving back to Hollywood 662 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,880 Blvd. and the city of West Hollywood is doing their own. 663 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,400 Look at that. There's going to be two Pride 664 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,880 parades double. Pride. 665 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,360 They did that for Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 666 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,560 Halloween used to be the Hollywood Blvd. 667 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,920 Carnival and then the Santa Monica Blvd. carnival. 668 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,880 But all the straights come down and want to look at the Queens 669 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,040 that they made it all one. They do the same thing with 670 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,400 pride. Now look at this. 671 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:34,160 And so they were doing the same work Brown the same time in New 672 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,160 York and they they're the New York original pride parade was 673 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,360 Christopher St. Liberation Day. 674 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,440 OK. And then, girl, they were doing 675 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,200 it in Philly, too. Philly I, I, I did go do a 676 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,960 Philly Pride when I moved back to Philly and Philly Pride was 677 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,040 great as well. Philly, I like them when they're 678 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,680 a little bit more localized. Even New York, as big as it is, 679 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,480 it still feels like a little community to me when it becomes 680 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,280 ginormous and corporate, and I hate to keep using Wells Fargo 681 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,960 because I really like them and I bank with them. 682 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,920 When it becomes that corporate, then it's like, it's not to me. 683 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,400 It's not pride. It's like, what are we doing 684 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:12,400 here? Right. 685 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,080 It's just an advertisement for corporations that want us to 686 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,920 believe that they support us and it's question. 687 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,280 For one month you can order your checks with a rainbow flag on 688 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,400 it. Like, you know, give me a break. 689 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,560 Now it's interesting cause in the 80s that's when things kind 690 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,320 of shifted cause originally it was the gay liberation parade. 691 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:33,240 Then when the new activists of a less radical nature took over, 692 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,880 they dropped liberation or gave freedom, and they called it gay 693 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,520 pride. OK, I'm a I'm a for that. 694 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,320 It's OK. It's OK though. 695 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:45,000 Liberation is fantastic. They we need to go back to. 696 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,120 Liberation, gay, free, I mean, 'cause they, the original Pride 697 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:52,000 was a a day of commemoration. And you know, I think that's 698 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,560 something to remember when we do these parades again. 699 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,120 I would like to see, I mean I know we need the corporate 700 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:03,640 sponsors to fund Pride, but I am one of the things model and my 701 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,120 issues about the Pride parade. Especially in West Hollywood was 702 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,000 that it looked cheap. Yeah, I agree with. 703 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,760 You, it looked. Cheap the whole thing and it 704 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:18,640 looked about everything. Wonky and I feel that we as a 705 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:28,360 queer group love it, are the most creative, smart, visually 706 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,440 accurate, stunning. Preach, McGovern, Preach. 707 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,520 People in the world, we create everything beautiful in the 708 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:40,000 world of fashion, architecture, design, style, music, I mean all 709 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,280 of it. We're there, We're there. 710 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:43,600 We're there. We've invented everything, OK, 711 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:48,920 we're there. What I want to see is a well 712 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:54,640 funded, stunning, gorgeous. Stunning. 713 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,800 Gay pride parade. And festival. 714 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,280 I'm with it. That takes your breath away from 715 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,120 the beauty. And I understand that that's a 716 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,200 new thing that you would have to do. 717 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,960 Like if I would suddenly became a billionaire, I would be 718 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,400 putting on be funded the Parade of Life. 719 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,040 I would take it on as a as a nonprofit project. 720 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,560 It would be called the beautification of the Pride 721 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,000 Parade. And let me tell you, I would 722 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,160 hire the Julie Taymor animal, The Lion King groups. 723 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,800 I would get every designer, all the gay designers, not Dolce 724 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,920 Gabbana, all the gay designers. I would call upon all the queer 725 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,920 people in the community to do their. 726 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,800 Service I mean. Gay Pride Sunday. 727 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:45,440 I agree with you to make it the most beautiful and stunning 728 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,280 parade of the year. I don't want to just see like I 729 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,520 I'm fine with Mickey's Fire truck, Go go's, whatever, but 730 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,320 like Wells Fargo employees holding a Wells Fargo banner or 731 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,600 cars with the thing on the side. And believe me, I was riding in 732 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,800 the back of that dumb car. I don't want that car. 733 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,000 I want to see beauty and stunning. 734 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,200 I want this. I want fireworks at the end. 735 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,840 I want I want the electrical light parade from Disney. 736 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:18,560 Okay, yes, but instead of the theme song from that from the 737 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,920 electric light parade, we're going to hear and they'll. 738 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,600 Like all the lights would. Go up and then coming from the 739 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,440 sky from a helicopter, it's Kevin Ambience. 740 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:38,760 He's hanging on the ladder of the helicopter and they drop him 741 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,680 down. Then RuPaul does a flyby in a 742 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,280 jet. You don't know that it's him, 743 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,080 but he's there and it has pink smoke and the pink smoke drops 744 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:52,280 non non harmful to the to the environment. 745 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,480 Glitter glitter. Bird friendly glitter. 746 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,640 Bird friendly glitter drops and the music thumbs up. 747 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,080 Then the lights that are along the parade route all start 748 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,320 coming up. It's not just a street anymore, 749 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,240 sweetie, it's a runway. The ghost of Aretha Franklin is 750 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,600 projected onto a. Gigantic. 751 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,920 Screen and she has a person she's saying yeah and. 752 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,640 Pride. And then I want to see like some 753 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:23,680 of those small organizations get given gigantic budgets to work 754 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,440 with. No embezzling. 755 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,280 OK, we're going to have very strict. 756 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,760 Looks as Fargo needs to give P flag money. 757 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,520 Right, exactly. All those big instead of like I 758 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,280 want to see them invest the money in the beauty of the 759 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,120 float. Yeah, we don't want some rickety 760 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,360 pickup, honey. No, it's just not enough. 761 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,560 I want more for the gay. We need like we need like the 762 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:49,680 the the Rose Bowl parade. Exactly, exactly. 763 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,800 I want inspiration from the Rose Bowl. 764 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,640 I want inspiration from Hollywood. 765 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,080 I want inspiration from the Super Bowl. 766 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,240 Like. You said we have that talent 767 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,120 pool. We do. 768 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:06,120 I mean, all the stars have to do up here for free, Lady Gaga, 769 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,320 everybody else. It has to be a public service. 770 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,080 That is a problem. We need jets. 771 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,280 We need pink smoke, we need glitter, we need floats. 772 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,640 We need major. Holograms of The Golden Girls. 773 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:20,760 OK, we need. Thank you for being a friend 774 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,000 this bad. Exactly. 775 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,160 I mean like I'm like holograms of all the gay stars from the 776 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,560 past Sylvester hologram. I mean I just want to see like 777 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,840 how about 100 sylvesters all in one? 778 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,240 That is brilliant to. Celebrate. 779 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,480 Let's start it. Let's can we do? 780 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:45,240 It the Marsha P Johnson Memorial float covered in thousands of 781 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,520 real flowers. Everybody wearing that little 782 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:53,120 wreath of flowers. I mean, exactly why can't we 783 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,400 have the most beautiful break? And I know it's because the 784 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,280 problem is these are this is these organizations are always 785 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,080 trying to make money and because they have to survive, so they 786 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,760 have to take these things. And everybody like you can pay 787 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,440 your $2000.00, but then you don't have any money leftover 788 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,800 for a nice float. So you're just doing the car 789 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,920 down the street. I'm sorry. 790 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,960 It has to be a bigger thing telling Maritha, wouldn't it? 791 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,920 What? OK, what do you think of my 792 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,160 idea? Oh, makes you get up. 793 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,040 Did. You get up for that. 794 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,560 Because that's right, I mean, comment below. 795 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,120 What else do you think should happen in? 796 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,360 Our Yeah, but you know what? We could. 797 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,240 We could televise it like they do the Rose Bowl Parade, and the 798 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:37,480 sponsorship from that could pay for the damn freaking the whole 799 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:38,560 thing. Exactly. 800 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,880 I mean, just the like, maybe you need to pay to get into the 801 00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,560 parade or no, there's just corporate sponsorship. 802 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,040 Corporate sponsorship, the whole sponsorship. 803 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,960 You know, like when you watch the Macy's Day Parade on 804 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,840 Thanksgiving morning, that should be like on, on Pride. 805 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,920 On Pride morning, you wake up and you watch the most flawless 806 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,240 parade you've ever seen. The most the stunning. 807 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:01,240 I mean, I'm sure I didn't get to go to World Pride, but I'm sure 808 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,760 World Pride Parade was a little more in this vein. 809 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,920 But I want to see it bigger. Maybe this is a job for New York 810 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,320 Pride. Maybe LA can't handle it. 811 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,000 But we are, I always thought, the new. 812 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,760 York, epicenter of. That's it. 813 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,200 The New York pride, I thought, was always bigger and more 814 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,560 glamorous, and then the LA one I always felt was wonder rinky. 815 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:18,720 You're right. You're absolutely. 816 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:20,040 Right. And like, I was like, why? 817 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,760 We're in Hollywood. This should be the. 818 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,080 Fighting, it's daunting, it's fighting it's inner inner inner 819 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,720 office fighting amongst who's going to sponsor it? 820 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:31,280 Who's going to do this? Does the city of Weho have it or 821 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,480 does the city of LA have it? Or is downtown because downtown 822 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,440 pride was fun? You know what, they did do a 823 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,200 much better job with DTLA Pride. And the other thing I liked 824 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,400 about DTLA Pride was as much as I liked hosting Dua Lipa and 825 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,880 Christina Aguilera and whatever, there was like no local gay 826 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,680 performers at all other than me and one or two other people. 827 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:59,480 And that was, and the one, the thing they did at DTLA Proud was 828 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,360 they it was all local performers the whole day. 829 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,480 They had big acts too. And it was. 830 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,040 It was done well too. I like, I like very well. 831 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,360 I love the whole big rainbow DTLA like how they had that. 832 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,040 Out yeah and they had a whole they turned the park into like a 833 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,400 whole thing I thought that was that was more in the vein in 834 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,800 which I would like to see but I am looking for a billion dollar 835 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,280 contribution from corporate sponsors and make the pride 836 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,720 parade into some. Send the check to Malibu Time. 837 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,160 Beautiful. We will turn it and we will 838 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,480 turn. Manage the money. 839 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,040 We won't embezzle it, but I'm hoping. 840 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,960 I mean, I think. Hologram idea of all gay gay 841 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,160 stars I mean we need to float with Charles Nelson Riley and. 842 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,360 They're all waving, Yeah, they're all waving, and we're 843 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,560 all paying tribute to them. I love it. 844 00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,840 We could have the Dick Sargent from Bewit. 845 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,560 All the gay ones. Liberace. 846 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,360 Liberace needs her own float, honey. 847 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:59,000 Sweetie, I mean, or how about animatronics where they they 848 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,880 like Liberace's? They're playing the organ line 849 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,800 from pride to deeper love. I wish my brother George was 850 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,640 here. Oh my God, that's brilliant. 851 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,840 Now. So God, but God bless the gaze 852 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,720 that came before us. Honey, they were the angels. 853 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:19,800 They're still my and my heart really goes out to that when I 854 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,800 see that. That documentary is beautiful 855 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,040 for that reason alone. Agreed 100%. 856 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:32,240 Sweetie, have you seen the Balenciaga pride? 857 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:36,640 When you sent me, you sent me that Balenciaga shirt that says 858 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,000 gay, yes, pink. I gagged. 859 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,320 That's flawless. And it's just my size. 860 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,520 It's the oversized Balenciaga sweatshirt. 861 00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,400 It says gay. It looks like you. 862 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,320 It's almost in the Gap format. Font. 863 00:48:53,600 --> 00:49:00,240 I mean, Balenciaga as of late is giving you here's something you 864 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:03,840 could buy in Spreadshirt 2 years ago, but it's by us Balenciaga 865 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,280 and I'm kind of living I'm OK with. 866 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:10,000 That we we should get matching Balenciaga gay sweatshirts 867 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:16,520 fantastic. $1200 Why? Because Balenciaga is still a 868 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,240 Balenciaga. Balenciaga. 869 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:21,560 I was in Neiman's last week. Every time I go there, I think 870 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:22,760 of you. How can? 871 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,280 You go to Neiman's without me. Because I went with my sister 872 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,720 and we were there and they have. They didn't have any of the 873 00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:33,000 Pride collection though. But those Balenciaga oversized 874 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,880 everything was flawless. They have for the ladies a 875 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:41,040 Balenciaga like Madonna style sports bra with a rainbow thing 876 00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,080 at the bottom. They taps that say gay they. 877 00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:44,600 Did a good job, they did. It. 878 00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,280 I'll take it. I'll take it and I'll enjoy it. 879 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:52,680 Of course, it's too hot to wear a sweater right now, but Versace 880 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,080 is also doing it. They have. 881 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,960 They have. Their Pride collection includes 882 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,760 a rainbow jock. Strap which did you see the 883 00:49:58,760 --> 00:49:59,720 rainbow jock strap? I did. 884 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,040 It's kind of flawless. It's like a black jock and it's 885 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:07,000 got the rainbow on waistband, the waistband which is so hot. 886 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,240 Yes. It's hot, let me tell you. 887 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:11,920 That's Donatella. She knows her gay jock straps. 888 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,040 You know, I love that Pride merch has gotten to this point 889 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,320 because, you know, I don't mind a rainbow Fanny pack and rainbow 890 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,760 flags and all that stuff. But this is taking it to another 891 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,600 level. And once again, it's raising 892 00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,280 awareness. And I'm, I'm here for it. 893 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,400 I'm living for it. I would appreciate if some of 894 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,920 this money went to a gay 'cause from these things, but we'll 895 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,400 take what we can get at this one moment right now. 896 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,600 I mean, I didn't go into detail. I don't know what they're doing 897 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,920 with the profits, but I mean they can't be selling that much. 898 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,480 Although the Balenciaga sweatshirt I think is sold out 899 00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,080 of. Course it is every They only 900 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,080 make limited amounts of all those things, so by the time you 901 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,640 see them and know they exist, they're sold out. 902 00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:54,000 Check. Check China. 903 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,520 Maybe if we go to Ross, they'll have the the rejects. 904 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,640 Very unlikely though I would say it's possible that like at a 905 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:08,400 outlet store or like a like for the high end, like an off 5th or 906 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,680 one of those other places. It's possible or you know, where 907 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,200 would they where they would have it if it was, if it's still open 908 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,240 and I don't think it is, they would have had them at Century 909 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:19,760 21. Oh yes, you know what I mean? 910 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:24,000 Like that's where it's 'cause that's not like normal outlet, 911 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,200 which is products made for the outlet stores. 912 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,720 Century 21 sweetie, you could get some fats. 913 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,720 Well, shit, it's like the real real. 914 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:32,880 You ever go into the real real on the corner there of the? 915 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:37,000 Yeah, but Century 21 had a little better of a selection. 916 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,480 The real real they have 27 dollars $27,000 I was. 917 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:41,720 Gonna say the prices were better like. 918 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:44,080 Give me a break. 'Cause they have that supreme 919 00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,360 Louis Vuitton. I mean Under Armour has a pride 920 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,960 collection, Tilly's has a pride collection. 921 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,480 I mean now everybody, everyone has a pie collection now and 922 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,360 then. Not that long ago, not everyone 923 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,240 did. Not that long ago, no one did. 924 00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:01,320 You had to go to like a a party store to find your your gay 925 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,840 merch. Well everyone, happy pride. 926 00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,760 Happy pride. Remember that all of our rights 927 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:14,000 today are built on the backs of people who fought for us and for 928 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:20,800 our kind of people for decades. So let's remember them and thank 929 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,400 them and try to love each other. Live. 930 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,360 Laugh live, laugh live out of bottles of poppers. 931 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,800 Thank you, Richie. All right, guys, We love you. 932 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,600 Happy. Wait, hold on a second. 933 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:45,160 Happy. Happy, Happy. 934 00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,040 I can't get it to go right. Exactly. 935 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:48,600 Just a second. Happy. 936 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:49,440 Oh, well, it's not right. I'll take it. 937 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,720 I get out of bed, I put on the clothes 'cause I've got bills to 938 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:55,480 pay night, but I don't need it. I've got a strong wind too, so 939 00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:11,760 that I've. Got a 940 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:47,040 happy Friday everyone, we love you and I hope you have a 941 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,400 wonderful month and be proud. Not 942 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:18,840 my feeling. And I call. 943 00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:27,040 Him.