Fast and Fab's Wheel of Pride at the 2000 Lesbian and Gay Pride March

Lesbian and Gay Pride 2000 marked the sixth year of existence for the Fast and Fabulous Cycling Club. We'd been marching with our banner, featuring the cyclist logo by Keith Haring, but this year Rebecca Uss put her architectural skills to work and produced a rainbow bike wheel for us, with the tread made of packing foam and the spokes, rainbow-hued feather boas. The group we bring to the march is never very large, but this year we got more than our share of notice, especially once some of the women decided to enact a little drama, in which one or two of them laid down on the roadway and the others holding the bike wheel rolled over them! We marched in the Team New York contingent with lots of other queer jock groups, including Front Runners New York and Team New York Aquatics.

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Bob Nelson is in the orange cap; he later stuffed some confetti under the cap in a hirsute, celebratory mood.

Jan del Mar and Shawn Hill show off the banner.

That's Magda Teter peeking out from behind the feather boas, which demonstrably do not go with a baseball cap! (Or do they?) That's figure skater Laura Moore by the Team New York van, holding the wheel proudly aloft; by the color of the legs next to her we will assume it's Paulette Meggoe behind her.

Our Paulette, in powder-blue Oaklies and fair amount of confetti, couldn't be happier on this crazy day!

Here's Paulette in a full-frontal view, bogeying her way down Fifth Ave. As were we all!

A couple of shots of Rebecca Uss enjoying the wheel she conceived and built. How will we ever do better than this next Pride?