Today’s Pride Parade was fantastically well attended despite the hot hot heat. The Seattle Times is estimating 400,000 attended. For those of us in the parade, it was a grueling trek down Fourth Avenue, which was lined with masses of smiling people. The heat off the pavement was intense and the street was littered with globs of melting chocolate. Attendees bearing squirt guns helped us fend off heatstroke.

^{Photos above by Evil Robot 6 via The Stranger’s Flickr Pool}

Right now PrideFest at Seattle Center is still full of happy homos, drunk drag queens, and liberal lookie-loos (sorry, too much beer brings out the alliteration). I kept hearing that the Cuff will be where it’s at this evening.

Pick up the paper Wednesday to find out who won the cash prizes for best floats.