[carried in bags]

On Saturday 4th July, London is hosting it’s annual Pride Parade. Pride London is for the LGBT community (and supporters of), there is a gay pride parade, a load of stalls, and some performances. I think this will be a great time for another AVEN meet and join in on the march and raise the visibility. I myself will be attending and will be wearing an hand made asexual t-shirt.

The parade it’s self I read starts of at Baker Street at 1pm and proceeds down Oxford Street and Regent Street taking in some of the major sites of London and calls round through Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square.

I don’t know the London area myself, but if anyone does who would like to attend could maybe help in organizing a handy meet up spot near baker street.

And another thing, when will an “A” be added to the LGBT?

[Wordwitch]

*BUMPING*

(I feel guilty cause I told fd that a new thread about this might get lots more replies.)

Well, I'll be there. I might end up running around between different groups but I sometimes do that anyway.

[tourmaline20]

I am likely to attend this! Why don't people meet an hour beforehand, say noon at the Costa coffee on Baker Street which has been the venue for previous AVEN gatherings...? Just a suggestion!

[carried in bags]

no need to feel guilty witch, i shall be there no matter what...even tho im meeting college friends there ive not seen for four years - one of wich is an ex...mmm, that will be a good 'coming out' story

costas at 12?

i'll be there! i shall probably be wearing a feather-boa, eye make-up and ASEXUALS DONT GIVE A FUCK will be on my tshirt, so just poke me with a spoon and say hi

[Cicero]

Hope you have a great time! It sounds really exciting.

[tourmaline20]

Is anyone else going to this or is it just FD, Worldwitch and I? (And another Avenite friend of mine who's coming down from the north).

[carried in bags]

ive just posted a couple of messages to other member who seen interested in the last post i made.


i thought there would be more somehow?! so we'd better make up for it!

[Wordwitch]

Live-wire will be around but marching with another (youth) group, and fridayoak is coming - both said so on the other thread, and I really do feel guilty about how the two threads have got confused...

Inicidentally there are two Costa coffees on Baker Street, a large one and a small one! I suggest the large one halfway down on the Western side, part of a block called 55 Baker Street, which includes a Canteen and a Fitness First gym.

[Wordwitch]

*BUMP*

[queerunity]

what great news, im gonna post about it

[carried in bags]

see you at 12 then people x

[live wire]

As you say Wordwitch, I'll be in the parade from 1-3pm but stuff on stages goes on until 8 so give me a ring, I'll probably be in Trafalgar Square.

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[Cicero]

live wire, on Jul 2 2009, 01:58 AM, said:

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Ooh, Avenue Q!

[Jicragg]

I'll be going too and friend of mine is taking part in something and something (I have no idea what she's doing ) and I'm going with her because she doesn't want to go alone (we're from the south coast) so perhaps I'll be able to drag her to Costa... Maybe... I've never been to a Pride before I have absolutely no idea what's going on. All I know is there's brunch.
I'm going with an asexy shirt (probably "Asexuals have other things on their mind") though she's given me a two day warning so it'll be rough.

Have fun everyone!

[RandomDent]

I'm going with my boss from work so it'd be great if I could find other people there as well. It'll be a bit awkward going with just her and her boyfriend, heheheh. Incidentally Wordwitch, do you still have my phone number from the NHM meet I went to? That'd be useful for when I'm running around completely lost, as no doubt I will. And it'll be great to catch up I'll be hanging online tomorrow evening 10pm-1am so if anyone wants to poke me in the chatroom or PM me.

[RandomDent]

So by flitting from one thread to another I've worked out we're all meeting at Costa around 12? I'll probably turn up. I'll be wearing lots of black and rainbows if I do ^-^

[michaeld]

I went along to the parade too. Thanks to tourmaline20 for drawing it to my attention, as I had missed this thread earlier!

The parade was totally awesome! One of the most brilliant parts was FD's "Asexuals don't give a f***" T-shirt! (Not sure about the Aven rules on swear words, so I played it safe.) That got photographed sooooo many times, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that appearing all over the internet or even in news articles.

I think that at next year's Pride event in London we should definitely organize a much more obvious and visible asexual presence.

Btw there were a handful of Christian protesters there but the majority of Christians by far were on our side of the barricade. The parade was also picked up on by the usual suspects, e.g.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...xIu3qCVhGAsrTHA
and one of my very favourite lunatics on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7ejOSs1UY...feature=channel

I can't tell you how honoured I was to be part of the "sewage tsunami sloshing down the streets of London"!
(Btw please don't bother going over to his channel to insult or try and reason with him - it's a total waste of time.)

Michael

[Cicero]

Would love to see some pictures if there are any! Kinda wish I'd come along actually. Maybe next year.

[tourmaline20]

For a limited time only, I be hosting pictures on my web server: http://www.bwint.net...os/lgpp2009.htm

(Normally it only hosts my Beast Wars website, )

Indeed it was very good fun and I definitely would go next year. Maybe we can see about organizing our very own Asexy Float for 2010. How awesome would that be?

[live wire]

Saved!

And there was me thinking that I might not have any from this year.

[lanlananhanh]

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Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.

[carried in bags]

the parade went far better than i could of imagined. considering i was just wearing an asexy t-shirt, it seemed to go down as a hit! i was expecting a few people coming up to me and asking 'what asexuals do' but everyone who noticed it, got it! the fact that loads of random people were taking photos of me was one of the strangeest things!

next year we definatly have to march. i'll try to come to london the same time next year. a float may be too much to begin with, but im sure we can get a banner sorted and a place in the parade - it is our time now!