Every Kind of Float You’ll See This Year at Pride, Represented by Doggos
We’re cute and we’re ready to walk, baby.
Not that long ago, my husband and I would march with the Mercy for Animals contingent in Chicago’s Pride Parade. He created this character named Tofu Man (yes, before Justin Timberlake’s rip-off) and one year, we were taking the train to Pride and I got it in my mind that we should get some footage of him wearing his homemade Tofu Man costume on the very crowded subway platform. John is such a sport.
When the train arrived, John got swept up in the crowd and smooshed into it wearing this very ungainly costume, and I was separated from him because there was no more room in the car or any other one. Anyway, he was wearing this giant thing on himself, sandwiched in the train with no room to move, and as he tells it, a lesbian couple decided to use his boxy costume as a wall to lean on as they made out and he didn’t have an option beyond just staring at them like a creeper because he couldn’t move an inch. Anyway, we finally met up at a stop — as luck would have it, I saw him on the platform, still wearing his costume — posing for pictures. Like I said, that man is a sport.
