Bi and Bi...
Jul. 25th, 2005 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOmaha and I went to the annual Bi-Net picnic. Well, we tried to. We tried to arrive "in Ravenna Park" (which is all the instruction we had) at 3:00, but we didn't actually find the place until almost four because Ravenna is a big freaking park and "in Ravenna Park" is not a location, dammit.
But we did find them, and the kids had hot dogs and went and played with other kids who'd shown up, and let the adults alone to chat under the beautiful day with its hot sun and cool breeze.
And, y'know, we were hardly on the cutting edge of human sexuality out there. We were mostly middle-aged (and showing it), mostly comfortable if not successful, and most of us were, well, oriented more or less out of convenience; very few of us had same-sex partners at the time. One or two.
Still, I don't think there's anything in particular to draw from that. It was a mostly quiet and pleasent event with good people who have, for the most part, "Been there, done both," as George's (the organizer) t-shirt put it. Eventually, we collected up the kids and walked back through the park to the playground. On the walk, I couldn't help but remark about how odd Ravenna is. It's a small water-carved canyon in the middle of the city, big and deep enough that it's actually hard to hear the noise of the city and overgrown in a wild and untamed way, with rough paths cut through it. For all you can tell, you're hundreds of miles from the nearest civilization. It's very cool.
But we did find them, and the kids had hot dogs and went and played with other kids who'd shown up, and let the adults alone to chat under the beautiful day with its hot sun and cool breeze.
And, y'know, we were hardly on the cutting edge of human sexuality out there. We were mostly middle-aged (and showing it), mostly comfortable if not successful, and most of us were, well, oriented more or less out of convenience; very few of us had same-sex partners at the time. One or two.
Still, I don't think there's anything in particular to draw from that. It was a mostly quiet and pleasent event with good people who have, for the most part, "Been there, done both," as George's (the organizer) t-shirt put it. Eventually, we collected up the kids and walked back through the park to the playground. On the walk, I couldn't help but remark about how odd Ravenna is. It's a small water-carved canyon in the middle of the city, big and deep enough that it's actually hard to hear the noise of the city and overgrown in a wild and untamed way, with rough paths cut through it. For all you can tell, you're hundreds of miles from the nearest civilization. It's very cool.
