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Roland Burris Hiding From Feds In Gay Pride Parades

Run them over, save traditional marriage!Wonkette’s “Gay, In Chicago” Operative “ManofSteel” attended his city’s fancy Gay Pride Parade this weekend, for fun, and who did he see there but U.S. “Senator for Life” Roland Burris! Here’s our leader in some fancy rich man’s car. Didn’t he know that you can get sick at these things?


2:30 PM on Mon June 29 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. SayItWithWookies says at 2:35 pm, June 29th, 2009

    If that’s a gay pride march, why isn’t the senator in a Miata?

  2. I was standing on the sidewalk watching the parade with my husband, and this convertible rolled by with some black guy waving a queenly wave to the queens and queen-affiliated. I got to proudly point out our batshit crazy Senator both to my politically uninclined boy and some visiting bloke from Phoenix. There may or may not have been patriotic tears.

  3. ManchuCandidate says at 2:40 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Is this what he meant by “Trailblazer” on his mausoleum?

    He’s not the first person who has traveled on the Hershey Highway.

  4. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 2:42 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Did Roland parachute himself there? After all, a gay pride parade is fucking valuable thing, you don’t just give it away for nothing.

  5. frumious_bandersnatch says at 2:43 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Someone please tell me a 7-foot drag queen sidled up to Burris at some point and said ‘boo’. Or smacked him with a handbag fashioned from Blago hair.

  6. Joshua Norton says at 2:45 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Fugly car. When did everyone get together and decide that cars that looked like steam irons were the epitome of cool?

    Bring back the ‘65 Mustang!!!

  7. Senator Roland is gay? Huh.
    Well good for the event organizers for overlooking his being a douchesack and letting him in their parade. They’re a good people, the gays.

  8. Carved in his mausoleum today: “FIRST BLACK UNITED STATES SENATOR TO RIDE IN CHICAGO GAY PRIDE PARADE IN OPEN CONVERTIBLE”

  9. He’s chiseling “Martin Luther King of Gay Rights” on his mausoleum right now.

  10. Snarkalicious says at 2:49 pm, June 29th, 2009

    What, no boa? No leather chaps? What kind of homosexual is this man?

  11. freakishlystrong says at 2:53 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Was Lindsay Graham in one? And if so, picture, pleeeeeeeeeeeze?

  12. Extemporanus says at 2:54 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Roland, down the street, smokin’ endo, sippin’ on gin & juice…

  13. slappypaddy says at 2:58 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Roland the Heedless Warrior
    (Talkin’ about the man)

  14. lizard scum says at 3:02 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Volvo convertibles would be useless in Sweden, where it’s freezing 50 weeks of the year. They must have been invented for rich gay Americans.

  15. ChernobylSoup v2 says at 3:06 pm, June 29th, 2009

    AmericaBlog endorsing Burris in 3, 2, 1…

  16. ManchuCandidate: He might be the first black senator to do so, though.

  17. Extemporanus: But what is his mind on?

  18. Dreadful Gate says at 3:25 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Zadig: FIVE AND A HALF INCHES, ALAN!!!

  19. Tommmcatt says at 3:33 pm, June 29th, 2009

    “Sick” is just one of the MANY things you can get at a Gay Pride Parade…

  20. hobospacejunkie says at 3:37 pm, June 29th, 2009

    AxmxZ: I got to proudly point out our batshit crazy Senator both to my politically uninclined boy…

    I trust you ain’t learnin’ him to read & write.

  21. Humpback says at 3:37 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Why is there never a parade for the pride of my sexual orientation?

  22. Humpback: You’re welcome to start your own (whatever orientation that might be, hope it doesn’t require bloodletting or a new wardrobe). Once we get equal rights some of us might help you get yours, if you’ve misplaced them.

  23. assistant/atlas says at 3:49 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Humpback: Dude, there totally is one for us! It’s called ‘every day all the time’!

  24. assistant/atlas: Anywhere an Adam Sandler movie is playing.

  25. Sunfire says at 3:56 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Excellent alt text.

  26. GinnyRED57 says at 4:02 pm, June 29th, 2009

    He’s going to need a bigger mausoleum, the way he’s racking up accomplishments.

  27. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 4:13 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Actually, it is not a bad idea. A man who wants to hide in a closet hiding out with people who have come out of the closet.

  28. surf-by says at 4:42 pm, June 29th, 2009

    So, I guess we have to wonder about Obama and Blago too. I think every politician in Chicago history has been in that parade.

  29. hobospacejunkie: You seem to have lost a part of that sentence. Check Burris’ mausoleum.

  30. DagNabbit says at 5:06 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Sing Me a Song, Curtis Lowe, Curtis Lowe…

  31. DagNabbit says at 5:07 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Humpback: The First Annual “We Really Just Want to Bang Chicks Parade”

  32. Jukesgrrl says at 5:08 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Hey, the parade committee saw the photo of Roland’s mausoleum that some brilliant Wonketeer blingeed, and they thought he qualified. Is that so wrong?

  33. DagNabbit says at 5:09 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Humpback: We Cum in Blow Holes and You Parade?

  34. Scandalabra says at 6:07 pm, June 29th, 2009

    I heard Barry threw a fabulous brunch for teh gays this morning in the East Room. Is it safe to go back on americablog yet?

  35. Uncle Glenny says at 6:14 pm, June 29th, 2009

    Scandalabra: Wait until John takes his tranquilizers. Maybe after midnight for a few hours.

  36. What? the licese plates should say trailblazer in that swedish car of death

  37. Suds McKenzie says at 6:48 pm, June 29th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: “Was Lindsay Graham in one? And if so, picture, pleeeeeeeeeeeze?”
    Lindsay was probably chained to a radiator for the weekend.

  38. JadedDIssonance says at 7:06 pm, June 29th, 2009

    He was being a total Parade Douche too, people kept throwing beads to him and he was all STOP IT CUT IT OUT RIGHT NOW waving his hands and shit. How can you “march” in Chicago Gay Pride and not expect people to throw beads at you? He didn’t expect to be looking so beadable.

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