http://dcist.com/2009/10/about_tonight_407.php

Pop this is an epic dc experience. You’ve got to get there around 6:15 at the latest as people can be about 5 deep and arriving late means no real view. Also, no bars along the route actually offer a good view because of the previously mentioned fact that people stand 5+ deep.

It’s not as fun as it used to be when it was an unsanctioned event and the police would try to arrest the drag queens for blocking traffic. Ah the good ole days.

A premier DC event! Was once much better – one year they blocked off the street before and after and let the neighborhood have music, booths, a raffle etc. Now the DC police come in the moment the race is over and practically bulldoze the people in order to re-open 17th St. Get there early because the back and forth parade of drag queens, theme groups, gay Batman and Robin etc., “show girls” etc before the race is actually the best part. The saddest part is the lack of costumes in the audience. Everyone dresses like a Georgetown student.

Wow Pop, you finally deigned to mention something gay to do (I noticed you post picks of every little parade or event, but ignored the huge Equality March recently…)! But of course you would mention this, as most gay people don’t attend anymore. I saw my very first race way back in ’92: I was 16, and an older friend and I sneaked into JR’s… the good old days!

@DrewLove can you tell me more details about the Miss Adams Morgan Pageant?

I must echo the sentiment that it was a lot more fun before it became a drag parade for an audience comprised mostly of dumb drunk college girls.

*claps* for the calling out of PoPs failure to mention the recent Equality March. I was there…it was very gay and I was sad to see both DCist and PoP ignore it….pictures or no pictures.

now on to the drag race…I didn’t go. It was rainy and wet. Last year I nearly froze to death. yay for global warming?

I am a bit offended that if someone has a backyard barbecue or lost dog, it’s mentioned but over 1 hundred thousand gays march through the streets of DC and rally AND lady gaga crawls from whatever rainbow she’s been hiding under and it still gets no mention.

this is DC though and if you act like it never happened, it just eventually goes away, right? *cough*taxicab bribes*cough*