Dancing in the SF Pride Parade

Dancing in the SF Pride Parade was not the perfect experience I wanted, but it was the chaos that I needed.

During the pandemic, when I began taking in-person dance classes again for the first time after getting vaccinated, I learned that the company I attended, the ODC, used to host a group every year at the San Francisco Pride Parade. Their last parade was in 2019. That idea always stuck in my head that when they began dancing in the parade again, I would …