http://www.fox23news.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=92220

My mom and dad and sister and I were there, watching the parade from the sidewalk. I’d be surprised if the entire parade took more than 15 minutes to move past us. Interesting to compare it with the mega-huge billion-person NYC pride parade, which is next week, which we march in every year. In spite of the corporate-sponsored atmosphere of consumerism and celebration of asshole traitor elected officials - queer and otherwise - the NYC parade always feels like a revolution about to happen. All that faggotry! All those sexy men! All that messy gorgeous anarchic celebration of otherness! All that contempt for patriarchy! The Hudson parade, on the other hand, felt like the fetus of a revolution: something exciting and new and fragile. I grew up in this town, with its homophobia and hate and ignorance, so it’s definitely exciting to see this moment happen.

On our way to the train station we passed the counter-protesters: two very young boys and an older gentleman, holding up hand-made signs with the writing too tiny to see from the street, looking terrified.

Here’s another story, from CBS-6, where my sister used to be a producer:

http://www.cbs6albany.com/video/?videoId=97476665001&lineupId=1143371293

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