The overall scene at Orlando’s Pride parade was as festive as ever. This scene (in the video) was especially nice.

The election though was just two weeks and three days away. Thus, I felt a dark forboding that this could be our LAST peacetime Pride.

Many others may have sensed this, though they reacted differently. Everyone I made conversation with did NOT want to discuss politics.

Eight years minus 15 days ago, I watched the 2016 election results roll in on the big screen TV at a Gay club. One of the first results in was some rural county in the Carolinas, going over 70% for Trump. The feeling we all had was that of sitting in a Berlin Gay club in 1932, watching Hitler get elected.