While not a strictly library-related post, I wanted to share the wonder that was Karen's and my visit to the Austin City Limits Music Festival--specifically, our front-row experience at the Indigo Girls show.
So, we came up for the festival with pretty much the sole goal of getting as close to the Indigo Girls show as possible. I mean, we live in a desert--literally AND figuratively when it comes to queerdom. We camped out near the front of the stage for Zap Mama, the act right before, and then joined the crush of lesbians who pushed to the front for the Indigo Girls show.
The concert itself was amazing--they knew what their audience wanted (to hear our favorite songs and get to sing along at the top of our lungs) and they delivered. But I really want to talk about the hour that existed in between Zap Mama and the Indigo Girls.
After we secured our spaces (itty bitty ones) as close to the stage as possible, we took a look around. In the words of Karen, "Look at all the lesbians!" Bonding with a few of the girls around us (especially a very cute couple who met in the Navy) we decided an interesting social experiment would be to color-code the crowd....where to the lesbians stop and the gay women start at an Indigo Girls concert, I wonder? It was like a mini-pride experience!
In a world where we have exactly two other lesbian couples to socialize with (and half of one of those couples is my boss) Karen and I often end up forgetting that we are different--special in a good way! It was nice to feel such great solidarity with others who are different. We loved it.
Yay for gay.
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