A sign you don't see many places outside of SF

The Boy with 2 Moms

Pride

These lovely...ladies were roaming Market street during the pride celebration having their photos taken left and right. I was clearly dressed all wrong-left my leopard catsuit at home...damn.

Dyke Walk

Here is the view down 16th street from Market of the dyke walk. There were a lot of interesting things going on. We accidentally forgot to bring a camera to the actual parade, but more pictures from the weekend are coming.

Five dollars....

to anyone who can venture a guess at what this store could possibly sell?

Gay Accent

I don't have much else to say other than this must go with the kit on the previous post.

Getting Used to a new city

Found this set at a mall yesterday near Union Square. It is the "grow up to be gay" gift set. Sorry the picture is so small; it was taken on my phone. I will try to see if I can get it to be enlarged. One thing that happened yesterday was while we sold a few things on craigslist. A guy called and told me that his name was Belk and that it was spelled B-E-L-K. After confirming that he wanted the item, he asked me if I had spelled his name correctly. I just said sure and he said he would be over in about 15 minutes. After waiting an hour a guy was standing at the door and it was Belk. After not understanding what he was trying to sell I sold him the item and he left. About 10 minutes later I get a call from Belk asking if I am still there and he is still interested in the items. I told him that he already bought them from me and he said that he did not and that he would be back in ten minutes. He might have been a bit confused, and we did not see him again.

Cleaning out the closet

Sorry about the iPhone quality picture, we're working on carrying our real cameras with us more often.

So today we took care of chores, mostly just busy work and finishing up the unpacking process (it may never actually end). One of the chores today was to drop off a few bags of clothes at the closest thrift shop. The name is kindof cute-tongue in cheek, but what was really notable is the FREE HIV TESTING sign. The thrift store itself is also directly attached to a pharmacy. So you decide to do a little shopping, maybe pick up a cool pair of vintage boots, and get a free test for a deadly autoimmune disease, then pick up your prescription all in the same place? Now why didn't I think of that...

Special Edition To Kick Off Gay Parade

This weekend kicks off the gay parade and dyke walk so I'm sure there will be quite a few pictures to grab. It will be hard to pick just one for the day. They have started setting up and talking about it around town. Today's picture is a newspaper cover that I saw at the corner news stand. I guess this is what it would look like if the Brady Bunch were gay.

Oil Wrestling

We were walking down Market street as we heard some voices over a megaphone and a crowd was gathered around at what looked like a new gay bar opening. We wanted to see what there was to see, so we filed over to the opening. There were about 12 men standing in just brief style underwear shouting for everyone to come over. There was a mattress that was covered in oil and then two men went over and started wrestling each other on this mattress in the middle of the market street sidewalk. As this was happening, the guy with the microphone started trying to line up the next set of men to wrestle. This was a new one to me. I didn't have my camera with me, so I had to take this picture using my phone, so sorry about the small picture. If you look past all of the people taking pictures, you can see the wrestling.

Evening walk

We've been taking walks in the evenings to explore our neighborhood and new ones.

Tonight on Castro Street, right near the Harvey Milk camera store I saw this sign and couldn't resist looking like a tourist and snapping a picture.

The Mystery Box

Yesterday we had a large crate and did not know what to do with it. We thought about putting a "free" sign on it, but we thought we would make it more interesting. We labeled it as "free mystery box" to see how people would react. After a few minutes we had people coming by and taking pictures with the mystery box. One couple came by and the guy's response was "Hey, do we need a mystery box?" A few people were afraid that someone was going pop out of the box and scare them, as if this has been a common thing nearby. Another man said "Mystery box?? I'm all over this". Nobody took it for a couple hours. At around 1 in the morning a few drunk people came through the area and decided they needed a mystery box and they carried it off. There should be some good pictures to come as this weekend is not only the gay pride parade, but the dyke walk on Saturday.

Monkey in the Window

We just had internet installed so hopefully we will get some pictures posted on the site. Eventually when everything gets put away we will try to get the Castro picture of the day, but it may be the picture of the week in the beginning. Here is picture 1.

Last Day of Work

Today was my last day of work and one of my coworkers suggested keeping a journal or blog of what it will be like living in The Castro District as a straight couple. I thought I would give it a shot and see how it goes. My girlfriend and I are leaving Tempe, AZ for San Francisco next week. I will not update until we have arrived.