SOUTH CAROLINA PRIDE PARADE: LIGHT IT UP!
Friday Night, October 20th. 7 – 11 p.m. on Main Street
Pretty will be marching with the Rainbow Light Saber Brigade led by annual head cheerleader for the gay Pride celebrations Light Brigade Captain Matt Tischler who says there are a few spots available in his regiment tonight so check with his FB page for updates and instructions on where to meet and when.
This is our first year for a nighttime Pride Parade in the almost 30-year history of Pride Parades so Light It Up, Columbia!
Tomorrow the Famously Hot South Carolina Pride Festival starts at noon and goes on until ?? Take the whole family, why don’t you?? The Harriet Hancock LGBT Center sponsors a special area for children’s entertainment.
P.S. I hope to see you tonight – I’ll be wearing my Pride beads in memory of Freddie Mullis and in honor of Dick Hubbard who loaned them to me to wear in Pride Events until they find a permanent home in the Queer Section of the Caroliniana Library at USC. Freddie and Dick wore these colorful beads, bracelets and rings in the 1993 March on Washington.
P.S.P.S. I won’t be walking with Pretty – I’ll be riding in the Business Guild automobile with the Famously Hot Mar-lah-ti-dah who ended her instructions for our meeting tonight with the words, I just love the gays. I do, too, and we party tonight in Columbia, South Carolina!!
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About Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019.
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Nana to her granddaughter Ella James born 10-01-2019. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
Ha, ha! I love your pile of Pride Parade paraphernalia! (And it’s always a treat to see my drawing in it’s home). Have a blast motoring up the route. Light up the night!!
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Your art makes its way into all of the most important places in our home! You are one of our “featured artists.” We are honored to have the pieces you made for us!
Lift a glass to us tonight!
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You move me to tears, my dear friends. I’m honored to hold such a place in your home and heart. It means the world to me!!
I’ll lift my adult beverage to your entire band in sisterly solidarity. Light up the night!!
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Hope you have a FABULOUSLY QUEER time!
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Onward!
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Whoop it up some for me tonight being I’ll be home in bed due to being sleep deprived with all of my recent travels. Happy Pride!
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Get some rest, Jenn!! You deserve it – let us know if we can do anything for you while Donna is gone! Happy Pride!
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