Dangerous Ideas

I had signed up for RailsConf a while ago and was completely oblivious to the date being Pride weekend. I was thinking I would have to miss out on pride celebrations in San Francisco, but then I realized that Chicago has their LGBT Pride celebration the same weekend. There’s also a Chicago Dyke March, although it takes place earlier than the San Francisco Dyke March. The Dyke March in San Francisco is always a good event – unlike the parade on Sunday, it’s refreshingly non-commercial, and it’s always on the cutting edge of progressive politics. And it’s a fun day in Dolores Park for all sorts of people, not just dykes. It would have been interesting to see Chicago’s version, and also their parade (which is probably a lot different than San Francisco’s which is ridiculously huge and overly commercial), but, alas, I’m not going to Chicago after all since there’s too much to do here.