I have never been able to attend a New York Pride because my boss always made me work in the store, which is ironic because I was always the one who actively fought for equal rights between the two of us. Last year was even worse because we actually had a float for the first time in the parade which I specifically said I wanted to be on and I still had to work. This was the middle-finger equivalent of sticking a thousand dicks in my eye. Well this year was different because I was in charge, so I finally got to celebrate Pride, which is an annual event that is very important to me. Leading up to the march I found myself hearing people saying things that really surprised me when asked what they were doing for Pride. Stop the turnip truck, because when someone says “I don’t think Pride is necessary anymore,” I take issue!
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I was at a party once and someone found out what I do. Usually people get wide-eyed and smile and ask me if we have buttplugs (“Yes, duh.”), but every once in a while I meet someone like this guy. “Oh so you think you know more about sex than I do?“ It was an oddly confrontational statement based on nothing other than my blog description, but I remained polite. I explained “I just think that people don’t think about sex as something that requires effort too often,” to which he replied “Who are you to tell me I don’t know what I’m doing?“ Obvious insecure male is obvious.
In my business it isn’t strange to meet porn stars. Despite that, it was still such a surreal experience meeting Nina Hartley. There are many reasons for this: meeting someone famous for the first time always humanizes them to a certain degree. A lot of celebs put on a show when they meet people to maintain their facade, but when you are meeting someone famous who is about to do three nights of sex based workshops for you, you meet a side of them that is ultimately very personal and surprisingly relatable, and you’re shocked at just how much they can influence you in such a small period of time.
