Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Monday, April 03, 2006
The Night Before Pride
Twas the night before pride and as always, certainly a good night to hit the town and party it up a little. My friend Bernard arrived from San Francisco at 5PM so we headed back to our house to relax a bit before Philip arrived from Los Angeles. Around 9 we packed Bernard, Justin, Mark and Andrea into the Xterra and headed over to the airport to pick up Philip. Once at the airport we got Philip packed into the cargo area and then headed downtown to begin the weekend festivities. We decided to start our evening at Amsterdam. It was such a beautiful evening out with the temperature hovering around 70 degrees. We parked and headed in for a few drinks. Within minutes we ran into a whole gaggle of our Phoenix friends including Darin, Chris, and Chad as well as some out of town visitors such as Kevin from Los Angeles, Chad Fox from San Francisco, and Atari Age from Massachusetts.
Andrea, Mark, Philip, Bernard and Justin
Philip, Andrea and Bernard
The party boys ... Justin, Bernard, Philip and Moi (Rich)
Chad and Plane Jayne (Chris)
We hung out at Amsterdam to down several drinks, move a few times between the Amsterdam Balcony, the Malibu Beach Bar, club Miami and back. After checking out several of the 'interesting' strippers who were dancing on the bars we decided to pack it up and head on over to Charlie's for some cheap drinks and late night dance music. We arrived at Charlie's and couldn't find any parking so I took a quick detour over to Homme for a minute. We parked, went in had a shot, used the bathrooms and then headed back to Charlie's where we were finally able to find a parking spot across the street. Man that place was packed! I gues that's why you have to love pride weekends, it brings out everyone. We headed to our usual spot in the sandbox (the back volley ball court) where we ran into the rest of the gang again and began the 2nd half of our drink fest 2006.
Darin, Chad & Chad Fox
Mark showed Darin that it was indeed a banana in his pocket while Andrea tried really hard to not pass out.
Bernard was enjoying his Kettle One on the Rock while I downscaled from my Three Olives Cherry to a Heineken
We setup the camera on the wall and set the timer to take a group photo (Bernard, Andrea, Mark, Rich, Darin, Chad, Chad Fox)
Chad Fox and I decided to head over to the bar to grab a drink before last call.
Open your eyes gurls, it's not time for bed yet. Don't mind them, they were a little drunk by this point in the evening.
We had a blast and after I downloaded my camera the next day, I realized that we took 133 photos that evening. It was quite the happening time. Here are some of the other shots from the evening condensed down. As always, click a thumbnail for a larger version.
