Pink Saturday

Gilbert Baker is probably best known as the "Gay Betsey Ross" because he invented the rainbow flag. He also invented an annual San Francisco tradition called, "Pink Saturday". Now every night before Freedom Day, the castro is filled with thousands of people welcoming the lesbians as their Dyke March wends its way into the neighbourhood. The party goes on well past midnight and I can usually find a few friends wandering through the crowd.

Smokin!

I haven't seen my pal Rob in a while and to my shock and horror, he was smoking a cigarette! Is that what happens when you keep dating a Frenchman?

Puppy

I think he spent the entire night between the petrol station and a restaurant called, "Orphan Andy's". When I snapped this picture he was threatening to leave as soon as his BF returned from the loo... but I saw them laughing in almost the same spot ninety minutes later.

Jason El Diablo

Short people kept bumping into me as I tried to get a picture of Jason. They got so pushy that I took three shots and as you can see from the results, the third time is a charm...

James & Josh

Mad and mysterious (or so they would have you believe) this dynamic duo was well lubricated on malt liquor and truckloads of irony. Our time together was brief and maybe a little too retro, but as usual quite entertaining and enjoyable.

Van België

Through my wanderings, I ran into a nice Belgian bloke. He graciously suffered through my elementary Dutch as we searched out some friends. He seemed to think I know too many people and I wonder how large Gent actually is if he doesn't know many people there.