Dallas Gays Mail In Pride Parade, Must Be Saving Up for Halloween

DALLAS — A colorful celebration of gay pride had thousands lining the streets of Oak Lawn on Sunday. The theme of this year's Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade was "It only gets better." Fort Worth City Council member Joel Burns served as honorary grand marshal. His tearful speech about being bullied as a teen over his sexuality made national headlines last fall. Members of the Dallas City Council and new Mayor Mike Rawlings threw beads from a float. Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez also took part in the 28th annual event, riding a horse.

I'm not really sure if this 30-second video got any more wild because I fell asleep at the 15-second mark, and then tried again but fell alseep right after hitting play. In fact, even the article about the parade was more exciting than parade itself, because then at least I felt better about having missed video of our fat ass sheriff permanently disfuguring a horse's spine or some cry-me-a-river story about some dude who was bullied as a kid. I can only hope this was just poor coverage, because it will be a sad day when we can't use gay pride parades to make us normal people feel better about ourselves by pointing and laughing at boot-wearing brunettes, father-less, Bravo-watching sausage jockeys, and unstably-costumed trannies.