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LGBT Mardi Gras is a lot of fun

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Sydney, 2001.03.03

We went to the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade again this year. We were down in the hetero section of the crowd, which was a disheartening event. Unlike last year, when we lived just off of Taylor Square and were partying with people who had a real interest in the events (e.g. homosexuals and their admirers, I suppose), it was actually a lot of fun. Down at the Hyde Park end, it was just drunken teenage boys and girls dropping their beer bottles and throwing their empties at the paraders. How depressing. We went and caught Pay it Forward at the cinema on George St. Good flick.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner