I looked at the 9 and it wasn’t as bad as I had thought.
Contrast this with a music festival. You can still wear makeup, sexy clothing, Wild clothing, crazy hair, signs, whatever, at a festival, but you are there to have fun, loosen up, leave regular life behind, listen to professional, usually pretty talented musicians.
At a music festival, usually there is no hate (with the exception of some who do get up there and throw their moment of leftist politics into the mike). It just looks like the Pride day’s always are filled with hate. Being discriminated against doesn’t mean you have to hate.
The people who discriminate against gays are either following their religions or they don’t understand sexual orientation. They don’t deserve hatred. Very few people even discriminate against gays. Everyone knows someone gay, and gays are revered in media today. People who are against gay marriage aren’t hating gays. They just want to be left alone by gays. You know, what gays used to want.
They toned it down for Washington DC.
If you don’t believe that, go to the Folsom Street Fair in San Fransisco. If you were to give the world an enema, you would stick the hose in San Fransisco.