If you go down to the woods today...
Yesterday the bears had their picnic. As well as the drag queens, lesbians, queers, a few dozen trannies (including Yours Truly), and a mixture of bemused/curious straight folk.
It was the 3rd annual Pink Picnic in Cambridge and I thought I'd go along and give it a try. And as Jane lived not far away I thought I'd invite her along too. :)
The clouds threatened rain but apart from a few spots it was thankfully dry. The even was held on the grounds of Cherry Hinton hall. It's East Anglia's biggest event of it's kind, with trading stalls, music stages, cabaret tents and various food vendors, all with the aim of fun and awareness of all things "Pink".
As it was Jane's first real experience of the real (rather than online) tranny scene it was nice to see a good representation of trannies there. A lot of whom it turned out I knew, just more proof of the relative smallness of the tranny community.
For a free event, it was pretty good, if a little strangely conceived in places. The location was almost totally un-signposted in Cambridge, making it really difficult to find if you didn't know the area. All of the trader stands seemed to be hippy overspill from glisten, there were a couple of token "gay" stalls selling garish rainbow bangles and slogan t-shirts, but mainly it was an assortment of new-age crystal and joss-stick vendors, which seemed a bit out-of-place.
After seeing a very good drag act in the cabaret tent, and some indifferent rock on the main stage, we de-camped along with a fair number of other festival-goers to the Bird in Hand, which was laying on evening entertainment, which turned out to be quite good. I had a really fun time, and I think Jane enjoyed herself too!
Cambridge, in it's own quiet way, is managing to create it's own yearly "pride", which can only be a good thing.
It was the 3rd annual Pink Picnic in Cambridge and I thought I'd go along and give it a try. And as Jane lived not far away I thought I'd invite her along too. :)
The clouds threatened rain but apart from a few spots it was thankfully dry. The even was held on the grounds of Cherry Hinton hall. It's East Anglia's biggest event of it's kind, with trading stalls, music stages, cabaret tents and various food vendors, all with the aim of fun and awareness of all things "Pink".
As it was Jane's first real experience of the real (rather than online) tranny scene it was nice to see a good representation of trannies there. A lot of whom it turned out I knew, just more proof of the relative smallness of the tranny community.
For a free event, it was pretty good, if a little strangely conceived in places. The location was almost totally un-signposted in Cambridge, making it really difficult to find if you didn't know the area. All of the trader stands seemed to be hippy overspill from glisten, there were a couple of token "gay" stalls selling garish rainbow bangles and slogan t-shirts, but mainly it was an assortment of new-age crystal and joss-stick vendors, which seemed a bit out-of-place.
After seeing a very good drag act in the cabaret tent, and some indifferent rock on the main stage, we de-camped along with a fair number of other festival-goers to the Bird in Hand, which was laying on evening entertainment, which turned out to be quite good. I had a really fun time, and I think Jane enjoyed herself too!
Cambridge, in it's own quiet way, is managing to create it's own yearly "pride", which can only be a good thing.
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"proof of the relative smallness of the tranny community."
Personally, I prefer the term "exclusivity" rather than "relative smallness" - does that make me a snob?
Glisten... possibly a replacemement for Sparkle? :-)
And Glisten? We'll put it to the committee... Has to be a better choice than Moisten I guess...
Would have to loved to have sampled the joys of the Cambridge Summer air, but alas and alack no joy this year.
Maybe someday.
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