Sunday Bird Blogging: Gay Pride Edition

All our birds love to celebrate Gay Pride with us. After all, they like to strut and parade and they represent all the colors of the rainbow! And they certainly support this year's theme of "Pride, Not Prejudice" for the 30th annual Albuquerque Pridefest. Sunny, our sun conure parrot, was especially jazzed over Pridefest, as you can see above and below. It was the first Gay Pride of his young life, and sometimes he was dancing so fast he became a rainbow-colored blur:

He kept running back and forth among our Pride souvenirs and flapping his wings for freedom and equality for ALL:

Mary Ellen and I volunteered to table at the parade's end gathering at Expo NM on behalf of Democrats. We staffed the Bill Richardson - Diane Denish table for a few hours, passing out info and registering voters. There were also tables representing CD1 Congressional candidate, Patricia Madrid, and the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County.

Patricia Madrid table at 2006 Albuquerque Pride.

We had to miss Governor Richardson's cutting of the ribbon that opened the 30th annual Gay Pride Parade up Central and Lt. Governor Diane Denish's ride in one of the lead cars -- which just happened to be a restored little red Corvette provided by one of Albuquerque's car clubs. We hope the Albuquerque Pride website will eventually have photos of these and other parade participants.

We did manage to take a few photos at the event during our tabling. Here's the link to the short and sweet photo album. My first Gay Pride in Albuquerque was in 1980, when the parade was much smaller and event participants fewer in comparison to the estimated 10,000+ who attended this year's Albuquerque events. By all accounts, the Friday and Saturday events were packed, and both the human and pet parades were fabulous (not to mention the crowd watching). A big shoutout to all who help to put it all together! (Click on images for larger versions.)