The banner above is from the
official Fantasy Fest website. All other pictures are ours.
The Christian Fundamentalists felt their top
priority should be saving these "godless" souls of Key West. They got on
a megaphone and marched up and down Duval St. telling everyone that
they were going to hell, and chanting "Sodom and Gomorrah were punished
for being sinful!" As the night got later, they got bolder and
set up camp in one of the more busy areas, so that they could yell at
the body painted women. But by 8pm they had suddenly
disappeared. The police probably made them leave for starting
fights. Considering the
friendly and happy mood of the rest of Duval, the fundies' angry
taunting
actually ended up amusing. Except for the fact that they were
picking fights with women, they almost blended in with the rest of the
crowd of freaks.
We wanted to go back down for the
big parade the next night, but were too tired to do the 4 hours (roundtrip)
of driving again. Luckily we were able to catch some of it on the
live webcast. Some of the floats looked really impressive.
We'll definitely have to try to see the parade in person next
year. When the parade pictures from this year are posted on the
official FF site they should be somewhere here: http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/fantasyfest/index.htm#