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I had a question for providers and clients, but probably more on the provider side.

I've been openly gay in this area, ever since college, but there's one thing I've never done - march or appear in the Chicago Pride Parade. I belong to 2 gay groups that march there (one connected to work, the other more social), but I've turned down any invitations, citing an obsessive ex-boyfriend I'm worried about meeting.

However, although that "ex-boyfriend" exists, it's not my real reason. Of course, I'm worried about seeing providers I've worked with. I can only think of one that might cause a scene (he did cause a scene once, which was why I kicked him out of my place, and made him even angrier - he tried texting angry messages at me weeks later using someone else's cell phone), but it would only take one scene to complicate my, say, work ilfe.

For escorts and providers - have you ever had any problems at Pride Parades, with such call-outs?

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23 minutes ago, DrownedBoy said:

I had a question for providers and clients, but probably more on the provider side.

I've been openly gay in this area, ever since college, but there's one thing I've never done - march or appear in the Chicago Pride Parade. I belong to 2 gay groups that march there (one connected to work, the other more social), but I've turned down any invitations, citing an obsessive ex-boyfriend I'm worried about meeting.

However, although that "ex-boyfriend" exists, it's not my real reason. Of course, I'm worried about seeing providers I've worked with. I can only think of one that might cause a scene (he did cause a scene once, which was why I kicked him out of my place, and made him even angrier - he tried texting angry messages at me weeks later using someone else's cell phone), but it would only take one scene to complicate my, say, work ilfe.

For escorts and providers - have you ever had any problems at Pride Parades, with such call-outs?

I've only attended Gay Pride once, that was London Pride 2013. I didn't march in or watch the actual parade, but I attended the street parties afterwards in Soho (London's main gay area). The streets, the pubs and the bars of Soho were absolutely PACKED like you couldn't imagine. It took me over an hour to get served a drink at Comptons bar on Old Compton Street. I swore that I would never attend a Pride event ever again after that. 

The only good thing about it was that I attended a HustlaBall event later that night at club Electric in Brixton. One of the sleaziest but yet horniest events I've ever attended!

Now to answer your question - as I say, I've only attended Pride the once (in 2013), and I didn't encounter any of the escorts I'd been with up to that point during my time there. If I saw an escort I knew out in public, I wouldn't acknowledge them anyway. 

EDIT: I know that escorts in the big cities (such as London) tend to be extremely busy with clients on Pride nights - usually fully booked and impossible to meet unless you'd planned well in advance, due to the amount of new guys in town for the event who want to get their rocks off with a hot escort.

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I never attend Pride. But if I did, and recognised clients.. nothing would be said unless they opened up conversation. Discretion is paramount!!!
But Pride isn’t for me. I really don’t like big crowded events. I’d be fine for half hour but then all the noise, crowds and hustle would start to make me anxious and I’d need a couple of hours on my own. 

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One of my earliest participations in a gay pride parade came in 1976, when I was asked to help carry the banner at the head of the parade. To my surprise, a photo of that appeared in a newspaper, and although I was not identified in print, I decided that was more of a public record than I wanted at the time. I walked in some parades in later years, but I lost interest in the event after it became too commercialized for my taste.

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@DrownedBoy 

Your could meet ex-providers anywhere you go.  Just go with the flow and let it happen.  I think your concerns about what might happen could be keeping you from enjoying what would have happened if you attend.

I've marched in a couple of pride parades with my employer.  What great fun and a few stories we still share.

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On 9/2/2021 at 8:52 AM, Charlie said:

One of my earliest participations in a gay pride parade came in 1976, when I was asked to help carry the banner at the head of the parade. To my surprise, a photo of that appeared in a newspaper, and although I was not identified in print, I decided that was more of a public record than I wanted at the time. I walked in some parades in later years, but I lost interest in the event after it became too commercialized for my taste.

For me, I lost interest because I had seen enough. The San Francisco parades last some 5 hours. I was mainly looking for the cute guys. Yet the endless parade of churchgoers always confounded me.

But ultimately gay pride organizations increasingly went for the money, and corporate sponsorships might be nice, but they did commercialize the parade. The after-parade festivals kept increasing their admission. In San Diego it was $25 to walk a loop in a public park filled with vendors. Not worth it.

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I enjoyed going to Pride parades during the 90s and early 2000s. Attended quite a few in Montreal, Toronto, and one in NYC. They were all fun with lots of cute and hot guys on floats. At the last Pride weekend where I was in Montreal, I left town on Sunday morning as I had had 2 amazing nights with one of the hottest escorts on the international circuit. I guess I just became too jaded.

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