Against Me played in Toronto this week as part of World Pride and I was lucky to be there.
You all no doubt have heard of Laura Jane Grace's transition and the band's new album.
She and the band put on a great show, though I prefer my punk more in the Ramones style.
The album Transgender Dysphoria Blues has some very powerful lyrics though I think a song from her earlier career called Pretty Girls is more poignant in retospect.
It is hard enough to transition in our own little spotlight. To do so in the glare of the 21st century media boggles the mind.
That one of us can tell our story is something I am thankful for.
This year Toronto hosts World Pride, I had never been to any aspect of the pride celebration before. When I worked downtown in a previous life I would come into to work Monday morning the streets still strewn with multi-coloured confetti.
I don't really consider myself a member of the LGBTQ world but that is no excuse to join in the party.
I had a good job interview in the city the other day and was still high on the possibility of a new job in the marketing field. It was time for a little celebrating.....it is also almost a year since my surgery.
I met up with friends on Church Street for coffee then over to an alternative club called the Bovine Sex Club (calm down Cassidy)....as you can see from the photo it was really alternative....loved the white Maleficent in attendance.
The club had an open air patio on the roof where my friends and I met some amazing cis and trans girls from across the province and even from the States.
I was a little worried about my rather short dress alerting people that I was not always female. Then again it is pretty hard to pass amongst gay guys and other trans men and women in attendance.
On leaving the club we stumbled across this cool 1963 Cadillac convertible.....wish I could add it to my fleet.
Here are the Dollyrots with a mash up of the Doo Run Run and I Wanna Be Sedated
Picture is from my friend Genni's pub which now seems to feature a TARDIS....
as Inspector Space Time would say, it is not a question of where this photo was taken but when...(totally geeky Community reference sorry).
So what else have I been doing besides messing up the space/time continuum. Working, looking for a better job, restoring my Stutz Blackhawk (subject of a future post). On Sunday I traveled to my father's to pick up my Lincoln Mark IV that had been in storage since December. I had sprayed all the chrome with a light rust proofing oil to prevent corrosion. Although the car was under a cover the oil had attracted and killed a few million midges (tiny flies that are found by Lake Ontario). The chrome wheels were black with them!
After tanking up with some dino juice the next stop was a high pressure car wash.....no flies on me...
Today I had her in for an alignment and much needed replacement of the pitman arm, which was causing the steering to be very vague. Rather worrying when piloting a five thousand pound car around a highway on ramp at speed.
