Pride Poll (xp TB)

[2brides]

1. Do you regularly attend Pride activities?

2. If so, which activities?

3. If not, why not?

4. How old were you when you went to your first Pride?

5. Were you "out"?

6. Does your SO enjoy Pride activities?

7. How do you feel about taking kids to pride?

[llama]

1. Every year unless there is some sort of disaster (okay, not disaster, but if it were raining or something probably I wouldn't go)

2. Pretty much all activities. I love the parades, although we don't do one where we live now. I also love the festivals, drag shows, bar/club parties/afterparties, etc.

3. N/A

4. My parents used to take me when I was a kid, so probably 3 or 4... whenever they started having pride festivals around where I lived.

5. The first pride I went to when I was out I was about 12.

6. Very much so.

7. I love to see kids at pride! Now, I have never lived in SF or someplace where there might be portions I wouldn't be okay with little kids seeing (sexually explicit stuff - I don't know how prevalent this really is and I've never seen it first-hand, but I've heard stories.) I am not generally alarmist about kids and sexuality, and I am also not a parent yet or possibly ever, so I can't say it would or wouldn't really bother me in the end. I grew up in a place where pride is VERY tame and especially family friendly and there are a lot of same-sex parents and their kids who go, in which case I would think it might be fun for the kids to see other families that look like theirs and celebrate and all that.

[ElsaVonM]

1. We usually go to at least one thing.

2. The parade. I stopped going to the post-parade festival because it was just all fundraisers and people with clipboards trying to get you to donate money or sign something. I understand why they would target Pride, but it's a drag.

4. I can't remember if I ever went in college. If not, 22.

5. Yes

6. More so than me.

7. We plan to participate in the kid-friendly activities here once the kids are older, and either take them to or march in the parade.