My friend Troy passed this on to me today and I just couldn’t help but post about it. Mainly because it completely reminded me of the first Des Moines Pride Parade I went to after only being exposed to Chicago’s Pride up until that point. Now I don’t want to sound like Des Moines has no “pride” because it certainly does. However, there’s a certain kind of small town, fish-out-of-water sorta thing going on. And I’m not taking about the lesbian vespa brigade representing Iowa’s proud Dykes on Bikes, which we affectionly coined “Cooters on Scooters.”

And since I’ve been meaning to get a new category going, considering my Smart Quotes category hasn’t exactly inspired me, this wonderful article from the Onion marks to beginning of the new category Smart News (even if this is fake news, I hope)

Small Town Holds Annual Gay Shame Parade

GRAND PLAINS, NE—A family deals with the anguish of realizing their son is a sinner in one of this year’s most popular floats.

And here are two photos from this year’s Pride Parades in Des Moines and Chicago that may help explain why this article made me chuckle so much. Check out my Flickr for many, many more!

Des Moines Pride 2007

Chicago Pride 2007

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