I’ve never really felt comfortable in parades.  The other marchers are always thrilled but I always felt I was being dragged along and not making anyone else happy.  So if I don’t like them I don’t have much of a right to discuss them.  Nevertheless…

we have two parades coming up that don’t make me feel good.  The first is the Jerusalem Day flage parade.  As much as I am proud of the Israeli flag, I don’t like the idea of parading with a flag when there are others who have other flags they are not allowed to wave.  Let’s settle that issue first, and the we’ll have better reasons to wave that flag and it won’t be in their face.

The second is the gay pride parade coming up in Tel Aviv.  I know it brings in tourists, and I have been for gay pride ever since I read John Rechy’s book, City of Night in 1963.  But I’m not at all sure that anyone is convinced to accept the varieties of sexuality by the massive drag show.

So what can I say about parades?  Maybe there should be a parade of parade-dissenters…