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Last Friday was supposed to be the left’s reaction to the fact that the president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain opposes gay marriage. It was called a “kiss-in” and gays and their supporters were supposed to go Chick-fil-A’s and do gay stuff, presumably to anger all the fundies eating there at the time.
It seems largely to have been a bust although when I walked into the Chick-fil-A in Des Peres, Missouri last Friday evening, I saw a couple of lesbians with their arms around each other. Nobody in the place cared.
But it brings up the question. Why, when they want to protest something, is sex the default position for teh gheys? Or when they want to do pretty much anything else, why is sex the default position for teh gheys? After all, sex doesn’t define who someone is.
Does it?
What’s sad is that more than a few gay people seem to realize this. Reader and long-time commenter Steve L. sends along this story of the recent “gay pride” parade in Vancouver. As is so often the case these days, some of the comments following the story are more interesting than the story itself:
My husband and I who have backgrounds in the performing arts and as a result we have several gay and lesbian friends and have had for many years and they all have said they find the Gay Pride Parades to be embarrassing and not in the least representative of them or their lives together with their partners – most have been with their current partners for over 30 years and live lives as ordinary as anyone else. They do no take part in nor do they attend Gay Pride Parades. They find the displays of nudity and simulated sex to be offensive and promote a very negative stereotype of all LBGT human beings.
I do not attend the parade. I am gay but find little to be proud of when watching the parade. Apparently, to be half naked, or in drag, or simulate sex acts is the goal of of every gay person—or so they assume. Some of the floats have nothing to do with Pride or being gay. A pickup truck with a handpainted cardboard sign from some business is not a float. And please, the thousands of people who attend (600,000????????) are there to gawk and find it a spectacle and are not there to support the LBGT community. I am proud to be gay, along with doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, business men and women, professionals from all walks of life and ordinary everyday people. We do not aspire to go naked, dress in drag, parade down the street, etc. Perhaps that why we don’t attend. We don’t feel the need. Apparently the young feel it is their domain and need to get some kind of acknowledgment.
Very well said. I am completely pro-equal rights regardless of sexual orientation. But this parade does nothing but reinforce negative stereotypes among those who are anti-GLBT.
It seems largely to have been a bust although when I walked into the Chick-fil-A in Des Peres, Missouri last Friday evening, I saw a couple of lesbians with their arms around each other. Nobody in the place cared.
But it brings up the question. Why, when they want to protest something, is sex the default position for teh gheys? Or when they want to do pretty much anything else, why is sex the default position for teh gheys? After all, sex doesn’t define who someone is.
Does it?
What’s sad is that more than a few gay people seem to realize this. Reader and long-time commenter Steve L. sends along this story of the recent “gay pride” parade in Vancouver. As is so often the case these days, some of the comments following the story are more interesting than the story itself:
My husband and I who have backgrounds in the performing arts and as a result we have several gay and lesbian friends and have had for many years and they all have said they find the Gay Pride Parades to be embarrassing and not in the least representative of them or their lives together with their partners – most have been with their current partners for over 30 years and live lives as ordinary as anyone else. They do no take part in nor do they attend Gay Pride Parades. They find the displays of nudity and simulated sex to be offensive and promote a very negative stereotype of all LBGT human beings.
I do not attend the parade. I am gay but find little to be proud of when watching the parade. Apparently, to be half naked, or in drag, or simulate sex acts is the goal of of every gay person—or so they assume. Some of the floats have nothing to do with Pride or being gay. A pickup truck with a handpainted cardboard sign from some business is not a float. And please, the thousands of people who attend (600,000????????) are there to gawk and find it a spectacle and are not there to support the LBGT community. I am proud to be gay, along with doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, business men and women, professionals from all walks of life and ordinary everyday people. We do not aspire to go naked, dress in drag, parade down the street, etc. Perhaps that why we don’t attend. We don’t feel the need. Apparently the young feel it is their domain and need to get some kind of acknowledgment.
Very well said. I am completely pro-equal rights regardless of sexual orientation. But this parade does nothing but reinforce negative stereotypes among those who are anti-GLBT.
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