Amidst the rainbow flags and grey skies, anyone at North Carolina's annual Pride Festival might have missed it, but there was fame in the crowd, in the form of none other than Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart. The Durham-hating transplant wrote on his blog about the event:
more than a few times i have wished that my rotten little town of durham, NC wouldbe destroyed by a fire storm.
but today something great happened. i did not know this but the entire state of north carolina
has
held its queer pride parade in my rotten little town for the last 25 years.
...
i saw 2 men. one was white, clearly from the country, maybe 25 at most, with a man who was black, clearly from the country, maybe 50 at the youngest. the older man was shyly holding the younger man's arm so they would not be separated in the crowd as they walked along. this was on my street. it was beautiful.
Maybe the Bull City is growing on him. If not, at least he's out of town.
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