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Red Dress Day Photo Essay
Karen Ocamb
Karen takes us on a tour of AIDS/LifeCycle's most festive day, "Red Dress Day".
Crossposted from lgbtpov.com:
Media Team's Ryan Herren was the star of the day, starting a breakfast (Photo by Karen Ocamb)
Red Dress Day is one of the best traditions of the AIDS LifeCycle ride. ALL participants are asked to wear a red dress so that the riders look like one long strip of red ribbon from the sky – heaven, I suppose. Now this may not be the REAL story – apparently there’s a dispute. But it’s the one I like best. Here’s a peek at Red Dress Day from someone who wore a red tee shirt instead.
Day Five, Red Dress Day on the AIDS LifeCycle, started before dawn as camp turned from a sea of blue to red.
Tent City (Photo by Karen Ocamb)
Charles Zalepeski, 32, and Phill Anderton, 53, from Key West, Florida
Patrick Shortle, 60, from San Francisco and Bob McDiarmid, 43, from Palo Alto, CA
Daniel Conti, 28, from San Francisco
The LA Gay & Lesbian Center's Alan Acosta
The Center's Jim Key (rt) and His partner Derrick Shore
WeHo Mayor John Duran with Kenny Norman - both HIV positive
Media Team member Nick Vivion from Unicornbooty.com and Queerty covering the rideout
Thoai Dang and Dustin Nguyen
Enrique Sapene of Univision interviews Alex Sotomayor, 23, HIV positive gay man
ALC riders line up for coffee bar with money going to help local kis
Gina Cavelli (Lorri Jean's wife) and Doug Reaney from Orange, CA
Fashion show
Doug Brotherhood, (left) is the only gay among these three riders, his friend Jim Wolff, Joe Sale, and German Serrano
Esmeralda Sepulveda, 61, from Dallas, Texas, a first time rider
Unsynchronized swim team
Center COO Darrell Cummings with interns from China
LA Gay & Lesbian Center CEO Lorri Jean dressed as Bo Derek
ALC Director Michael Barron was honored, as were the roadies and the medical volunteers
Sweet Harmony - Cynthia Bass, Patricia Horne, and Brenda Lee Eager were enthusiastically received
Center Board co-chair Dr. Marki Knox, also a longtime rider, brought attention to African American women with HIV, along with Sweet Harmony singer Cynthia Bass
Center CEO Lorri Jean and San Francisco AIDS Foundation Neil Giuliano at the end of Red Dress Day
