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Confronting My Homophobia at a Gay Pride Parade: Notes from a
Straight Ally  Robert Brannon Sunday in New York City:  a
beautiful, sunny day for the annual Gay Pride March.   Thousands
of men and women are assembling in mid-Manhattan for the march
through the center of the city.   I'll be march­ing with a group
from NOMAS:  Michael Kimmel,  Jim Harrison, Karl White and Ron
Smith (who led the first M&M),  Sidney Miller, my wife Joanne,
and several other straight and gay friends.    The mood is
festive; banners, balloons, and colorful costumes blaze
everywhere.   There's a proud old man who took part in the
legendary Stonewall Rebellion, which gave birth to the Gay
Liberation move­ment.   There's a tall woman on roller skates,
wear­ing an evening gown;   someone is costumed as a spider,
with six-foot legs waving everywhere.   B