On October 17, Famously Hot SC Pride hosted its annual festival in downtown Columbia SC where LGBTQ folks and our allies enjoyed a day of fun, fellowship, and family. As usual, I had a good time and brought back pictures. No one should ever accuse me of being a professional photographer, but I enjoy taking pictures of pride events.
LGBTQ people are unfortunately inundated with stories about how our Pride events are exercises in lewd behavior where we run around naked and perform graphic sex acts in front of children. I don't know anything about that, and I have yet to see anything like that in the 20+ years I have attended and helped to organize Pride events in South Carolina. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen (in other places), just I don't where any of that happens and frankly, I don't care. These pictures below represent the LGBTQ community I am a part of, love, and will fight for with every breath of my body.
Because the LGBTQ community in general (and that includes ALL of us) is WORTH fighting for.
