Out of the Book Closet

Sheffield Pride and I'd volunteered to do an hour on the University of Sheffield LGBT Network stall. So I dragged Leanne, Maisie, Maisie's friend and the dog into town to help me be an out and proud librarian. I had borrowed a library t-shirt to wear with pride, and negotiated to have library pencils and "I love my Librarian" beer mats to give away. 

We queued to get in, paid our money, and dashed to the portaloos whilst they were still clean. In fact I think I may have even been the first one to use the one I was in it was so clean and nice smelling.  Time to wander round aimlessly and decide if we want to buy a rainbow branded tie/belt/flag/badge/frizby/hat. We of course end up at the sweet stall and bought coconut mushrooms and fudge, that well known health snack combo. The dog liked the mushrooms.

I then needed to go talk to my public. I dutifully stood at the stall and made small talk with a whole variety of people, more interested in what free stuff they could get than applying for a degree at the University. The pink library pencils were very popular, as were the "some people are gay, get over it" stickers from stonewall. It was fun chatting to the students from the LGBT society who shared the stall and the other network members.    I finished up on the stall, a bit more wandering, listened to the really loud music emanating from several tents and meandered up out of the park back to the car. We also had a mission to go to a camping store and get sleeping bags for our imminent camping trip.  Two camp shows in one day!