The city benches at almost every bus stop in Baltimore proclaim, “Baltimore, the Most Beautiful City in the World.” Did the city planners forget about Paris, Rome, San Francisco or nearly every other major city in the world?? It’s a proclamation so bold and ridiculous that if you don’t actually think about it, you might imagine it were true. But it’s not.

Chet was a rare sexy specimen at the parade, but apparently he’s straight. He won the High Heel race again this year.

I’m thinking about this outrageous proclamation because at Baltimore Pride last weekend, a straight friend commented that he was really shocked that the guys weren’t so good looking and almost none of them were in shape, but Baltimore has never aspired to be Miami. I don’t think that it has ever aspired to be anything other than what it is and has never given much of a shit about any place else. But I do suspect that the gay community here would be a lot hotter, if the “straight” guys came out of the closet. That’s one of the problems with Baltimore Pride.

But the thing is, it doesn’t matter what you look like. You can be shaped like a gourd and be proud. The biggest problem with Baltimore Pride is that there are never enough drag queens. Every year there is only a small group of queens walking through the parade, lumped together and doing their damndest to add a little glitz to the otherwise humdrum event.

I really don’t want to sound like a hardass, because we had a blast this year. There just needs to be more sexy boys and tons more drag. How could that not improve any event??

Chet finds an errant drag queen to pose with.