$20 kit can make you “Gay for a Day” for Vancouver Pride

Everyone knows that the gays throw the best parties. Vancouver Pride’s just around the corner and that means tribes of shirtless cabana boys, drag divas up and down Davie Street, and enough free samples of lube to last the year. But what’s a heterosexual to do?

Join in all the gaiety, of course! And what better way to celebrate the accomplishments of the LGBT communities than with G-Fad’s “Pride kit”, which can insta-queerify even the straightest of arrows.

For just $20 a pop, people wishing to show their support and solidarity can buy a packaged Pride experience, featuring one rainbow hand flag, a whistle with wrist coil, tasteful LED sunglasses, Mardi Gras beads, and a hot pink shirt emblazoned with “Gay for a Day” across the front. No word yet on when kits available in plaid will be released.

According to the G-Fad Web site, the idea was born as a way to “create more understanding and awareness about gay community”, which, apparently, can be achieved by buying into stereotypes. Never mind the Stonewall riots, screen-printed novelty shirts are where it’s at.

Kits can be purchased from select Bang-On T-Shirts locations, including stores on Robson and Davie streets, as well as on-line from G-Fad. Partial proceeds from the kit sales will go towards local organizations Covenant House Vancouver and the Vancouver Friends for Life Society.

The parade kicks off next Sunday (August 1), but other Pride events include tonight’s (July 23) OUTrageous fundraiser at the Roundhouse for Out on Screen’s programming, Saturday’s (July 24) family event Picnic in the Park, next weekend’s drug- and alcohol-free Youth Dance (August 1), and the annual Vancouver Dyke March and Festival happening in McSpadden Park (July 31).

More information on Pride events, as well as ways to volunteer with or donate to the Vancouver Pride Society, can be found on-line at www.vancouverpride.ca/