Susan and I encountered the same kind of disarray and poor attendance here at Madison Pride, in a town of 250,000. In general, there aren’t many resources and the ones that are out there are very poorly run. We’ll be working on some of that, of course!

There are a *lot* of gay people here… but we are fully integrated into the community, and haven’t made, or taken advantage of many spaces for ourselves. I wonder how much of that is related to the fact that there is a higher proportion of lesbians here than gay men? There is some truth, I think, to the idea that lesbians tend to blend in to communities, while gay men create their own.

Or perhaps it’s just not as necessary to create a separate community in a place as liberal as Madison. Regardless, I miss the vibrancy of the gay community in DC (though I’m glad that I appreciated it while I was there too).