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Wedding Season:
- Local TV personality Rosa Rivera’s series on Bay Area weddings will end with a contest. The winners receive a lavish same-sex wedding ceremony to be broadcast live from Arts restaurant on Castro Street. Artie thinks this will be his big chance to revive his singing career...... Meanwhile, both Tim and his Aunt Ruth have misgivings about Nick and Sam pushing them to get married..... And a homeless woman in the neighborhood has everyone on edge.
Excerpt from Wedding Season:
“The gay parade in San Francisco is always the last Sunday in June, Aunt Ruth. I can’t believe this is your first one. They celebrate PRIDE in Minneapolis too, you know, but they don’t have half a million people turn out.”
Arts was always closed until the evening shift on Pride Sunday, so the two of them had scored a window table at the Cove Café for an early breakfast. A steady stream of revelers passed by their window headed to the MUNI station. Even though Ruth had lived and worked in the Castro for some time, she’d never seen it quite this festive. Muscular men were bare-chested, sparkling drag queens teetered up the sidewalk in spindly high heels, young gay couples pushed baby strollers or pulled dogs on leashes and everyone displayed at least a splash of color, even the leather boys.
“I’m amazed so many people are out this early, after the Pink Saturday festivities last night.” Ruth blew on her coffee and took a sip. “Lucky neither of us had to work. You know, Tim… the Twin Cities Pride celebration is one of the biggest in the country nowadays.”
“Really? How would you know?”
“I’ve lived in Edina all these years; that’s suburbia, not Siberia. I keep up on things.”
Tim could almost imagine his Aunt Ruth marching down Hennepin Avenue carrying a PFLAG banner. Or organizing their whole contingent. But wouldn’t she have told him? That might have been reason enough to go back for a visit, as long as he didn’t have to see his parents.