Organizing Pride
I barely got away from home, and I already dove head first into finding queer cultural places and events in my new city. I wanted to claim this place with all my being, especially since I was dating a girl at that time, and she really didn't want to go out in public with me. Not even to hold hands. No parties, either, only if it was Very Straight. So I wanted to find us safe spaces, and in fact, the only time we kissed outside of "the four walls", was at a party specifically organized for queer women (though straight women were also welcome, and men tolerated, if chaperoned by a woman). This resulted in me finding (but not actually visiting) the city's one gay bar. and then, later, desperate, searching for the terms "cluj pride", but mentally I was already disappointed, because I assumed we only did Pride in Bucharest. I was wrong. It was a happy accident, maybe, but my search did bring up a website (that is still up today!). At the time, in March, it o...