The festival, in its 34th year, attracted over 250,000 attendees, many of whom were happily saved from travel confusion and enlightened in the ways of convenient gay travel research at the Outadvisor.com tent. We managed to snag a prime spot -- just a few meters down from the Nuwear underwear pavillion. The crowds were overflowing and the scenery couldn't be beat -- gorgeous . . . if not a little distracting! :)
Hundreds upon hundreds of attendees, including Candace Gingrich and Deacon Maccubbin (founder of iconic local DC GLBT bookstore Lambda Rising) , stopped by to be educated on the 7,000+ worldwide listings of GLBT owned or friendly hotels, B&B's, bars, clubs, restaurants, etc. at Outadvisor.com -- as well as enter into a raffle for a Southwest Airlines gift card (Congrats, Bryan!). And a heartfelt thanks to our Outadvisor Boy, Steve, who worked it all afternoon to make sure that everyone passing within a radius of 50 feet was aware of us.
DC is our hometown and we were so filled with Pride to be able to participate in the festival for the first time this year! As RuPaul (who closed out the festival) advised - you better work! We did, and we had fun at it, too - you can check out our video of the festival below!
