This time of year known for its extensive hangovers, flag dancers, horrific fashion and B-, C- and D-level celebrity Grand Marshalls kicked off two weekends ago with Miami’s big gay brouhaha, featuring Grand Marshalls Patti LaBelle and Richie Rich and a bevy of trannies both good and messy (pictured below).

The Sword looks forward to many, many more glimpses of our community’s collective Flickr-gasm of parading, and by the time the party hits San Francisco and New York at the end of June (or by the time it winds down in Palm Springs in NOVEMBER) we’re sure the photographic evidence of our peoples’ great pride will be, as always, shameful and hilarious.