Following up on the Pride Parade photograph post below (if you haven't seen it yet, scroll down and check it out....I'll wait....)

Anyway, several things occurred to me....

A lot of the time, when I went down, I was taking someone to their first DC Gay Pride Parade.

1998: First for Me and Ag
1999: First for Amie and Johnnie
2000: First for Paul
2001: First for Jen
2002: no firsts
2003: didn't go
2004: no firsts
2005: no firsts
2006: First for Gar and Troy
2007: First for Andrew
2008: First for Michelle, Rich, Cara and Konrad
2009: First for StratCat
2010: no firsts
2011: First for CC
2012: First for Josh, Paul, and Travis
2013: First for Justin
2014: First for Derick
2015: no first

12 times down were firsts, 5 were not, 1 time, didn't go.

Also, I've taken a lot of straight people down with me!

1998: Str8 - Ag; Gay - the rest of us.  1-4 ratio
1999: Str8 - Ag, Amie, Johnnie; Gay - me.  3-1 ratio
2000: Str8 - Ag, Johnnie, Paul; Gay - me.  3-1 ratio
2001: Str8 - Ag, Johnnie, Jen; Gay - the rest of us.  3-4 ratio
2002: Str8 - Ag; Gay - me.  1-1 ratio
2003: didn't go
2004: Str8 - Ag; Gay - me.  1-1 ratio
2005: Str8 - Ag; Gay - me.  1-1 ratio
2006: Str8 - Ag; Gay - me, Gar, Troy.  1-3 ratio
2007: Str8 - Ag, Andrew; Gay: me.  2-1 ratio
2008: Str8 - Michelle, Rich, Cara, Konrad; Gay - me.  4-1 ratio
2009: Str8 - StratCat; Gay - me.  1-1 ratio
2010: Str8 - none; Gay - me. 0-1 ratio
2011: Str8 - StratCat, CC; Gay - me. 2-1 ratio
2012: Str8 - StratCat, CC; Gay - the rest of us.  2-4 ratio
2013: Str8 - StratCat, CC; Gay - the rest of us, 2-5 ratio
2014: Str8 - StratCat, CC; Gay - me, Josh, Derick.  2-3 ratio
2015: Str8 - StratCat, CC; Gay - me, Josh.  2-2 ratio

Added them, there have been Straight people going a total of 31 times and Gay people going a total of 35 times.  That's nearly an even number of Straight and Gay people going to a GAY Pride Parade!  Although to break it down into individuals (not times) there have been 12 Straight individuals and 13 Gay individuals, again nearly an even number of each!

So yeah...I'm not at ALL sure exactly what these random stats mean, but....well there they are!

POLT