San Francisco Pride Weekend

San Francisco Pride is structured very differently to ours back in Sydney. Where as on the Saturday evening we have the parade that leads to the party that goes all night and then the die hards continue on all day. The San Francisco one was spread out over literally two days. The street fair start Saturday afternoon down in the Castro. The streets were full of revilers and the apartments above the shops had their windows full of exhibitionists. There were wanna be strippers trying to be sexy, muscle boys just standing around in the white jocks and some guy fast and furiously jerking off to the crowd. There was even one apartment that was projecting porn across the street on to the facade of the opposite building. Not sure if it was pre-recorded or if people were actually in the bedroom filming themselves and projecting it for us all to see. Kevin had flown back in from New York that afternoon so Will and I met up with him down in the Castro along with Wills other friends Scott and Troy. We walked around taking in all the sights, which included what I just mentioned, a number of completely naked men walking the streets and of course lots of colour and movement in varying costumes. All the bars were full so there was no point lining up, so we left the Castro after awhile and headed for the Metro. There was no line up so it was straight to the bar. My god, you'd think after the number of times I've been to the States you'd think I would be use to the free pour of spirits. I thought the margaritas were strong at El Rio the previous weekend, my first G&T at the metro stripped ten layers form my mouth and serverely scortched my throat. Again it was a drink not for the faint hearted. William and Scott left after our first drink, which in fact was probably equal to ten drinks, and I being me wanted another so Kevin and I stayed on. I ordered another G&T and my eyes burnt from the fumes. This was even stronger than the first. I took a sip and my liver writhered in pain. By the time I was half way through my kidneys were screaming. But I wasn't going to let it beat me. I was determined to finish it. Remarkably I awoke early in the morning feeling fine.