The Incredible Flying Dalmation? by CoreyBlack

Photography • People • posted on Jul 19, 2009

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This photo was taken at last year's Gay Pride parade and needs a little setup: Several of my friends and I had gone to the parade in costume, as Southern Belles. I was Scarlet O'Hara. During a sudden downpour, we took refuge inside of a nationally-overexposed coffeehouse chain (you know the one) to wait for the storm to pass. As the rain let up, this incredible creature came wafting toward us on the sidewalk outside. Seeing that I had a camera, she (she?) decided to pucker up and kiss the window. With my usual cat-like Sagittarian reflexes, I managed to snap the prelude to the kiss, before the camera magically flew out of my hands, crashed to the ground, and ejected the battery to parts unknown. I had to buy a new one. Ergo, this was the final picture of last year's Pride Parade. Thinking of this person in retrospect, she reminds me of the wild and wacky free spirits you used to see a lot more of at parades and community group meetings years ago. The incident, I almost captured here, was probably the most interesting thing that has happened to me at a Pride parade this decade, with the possible exception of nearly being run over by the Spin Nightclub float in 2004. Chip just sidled up behind me, saw this image on the computer and has begun to croon Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side: "...and the colored girls go: doot-doo-doot doo doot doot doo doo doo...". This picture was made in the Lakeview area of Chicago on June 30th, 2008.

Comments (6)

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beachzz

11:53PM | Sun, 19 July 2009

Ergo--this is an awesome shot--one year I opened the SF Chronicle to see a friend of mine in her Pride pose--front page--- I was SO impressed!!

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auntietk

11:56PM | Sun, 19 July 2009

You have me on the floor in giggle fits, my dear! This is a great shot, and your narrative is wonderful. I can SEE you in your ball gown, crawling around looking for the battery. LOVE the mental image of Chip doing Lou Reed. :P :D

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myrrhluz

11:58PM | Sun, 19 July 2009

Great shot!

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Chipka

1:18AM | Mon, 20 July 2009

Funny shot! I love the things that happen with windows...this ranks up there with, well...those strange things that happen outside of windows...or at least waft by. I love the spontaneous capture, and it's good you got this without killing your camera...dropping one is a terrible thing! Hmmmm...and you were in drag too? You know, I'd have gone as Rhett Butler, for me THAT would be drag, since he's not black! Anywho, enough rambling. This shot rocks. I love her big, floppy ears and laser-tag shoulder-pads like epaulets on one of Darth Vader's stormtroopers. The fuzzy bunny breastplate just makes her ensemble! I wonder what a full body shot of her would look like, I'm sure she had killer legwear!

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durleybeachbum

9:16AM | Mon, 20 July 2009

Brilliant catch! I managed to miss our Pride parade, only realised it was that day when I heard the bands in the park. NEXT year I shall be there with camera fo sure if I'm still capable!

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