The Straight Shame Festival:
Sunday, June 24, 2007
San Francisco 'gay pride'
Somebody has to tell me why gays are proud of being gay. I'm not proud of being straight. Why would I be proud of it? No reason at all. So why do gays, especially in San Francisco, need to frollick and prance around in their Gay Pride Festival? Being gay and having such pride in it sort of implies that straights should feel ashamed. So, why not have a companion parade to gay pride?
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Who cares!!! Gay parades arnt about frollicking around showing off your sexuality, its about showing the world that its OK to be gay, Many Gay teens around the world feel lonely, and that they are being punnished, so there is a high amount of suicides of gay teens. These parades are to stop it from happening, to show equality. It's got nothing to do with heterosexuals, and if heterosexuals dont feel like having a parade to show that heterosexuals are not alone and to stop commiting suicide then Big deal.
You forgot the key word: pride. My entire post was about the peculiar idea that gays are proud of being gay.
If it was about the things you claim, it would be called Gay Awareness, or Gay Acceptance, or Gay is Okay, or something like that.
We're talking about pride, which is a very strange concept when applied to sexuality.
I guess you missed that.
gay parades are about not being ashamed of who you are. there are many hate crimes and it takes alot of courage to go through the kinds of things that gay and lesbian people go through. straight people don't have to go through the same thing. half of our country is against the legalization of gay marriage, imagine how that feels to, have your right debated. to know that half of our country is against you it is so hard to rise above all the pain that the gay people go through. to over come such great hardships the gay community should be proud of the accomplishments.
Oh, brother. Hello? Hello? Is this mic on? The victim-mentality is in full bloom!
Let's deal with "hate" crimes right away. They are thought crimes and are an affront to freedom and democracy. For example, two guys beat up a straight guy, putting him in the hospital with a concussion. The perps get six months in jail.
The same two guys beat up a gay guy. The incident is identical in every way except that the victim is gay. The perps get three years jail.
Hate crimes are thought crimes, and as such they must be stopped.
"imagine how that feels to, have your right debated"
You mean, like being told I can't smoke in my own house or car, or that I must wear a seat belt or a helmet while riding a motorcycle? How about being pulled over at a DUI/DWI checkpoint, an act that has cops pulling over citizens with no probable cause -- a clear violation of the 4th amendment.
Let's understand that the only real difference between gays (or lesbians or homos or whatever the current buzz-word is) and the rest of us is that the rest of us aren't holding "pride" parades to celebrate our victimhood.
I have no sympathy, especially for people who want to get married. That's as dumb as it gets. Ask anyone who has been married for a while how great that is.
I agree with you, to an extent. I'm a lesbian, and yes I'm "proud" as much as that might push your buttons.
I'm proud of what I've gone through as a person, that most heterosexuals will never go through. I'm proud that I've risen above the bull that society has force-fed us since we were small about how ''wrong'' homosexuality is. I'm proud of how I continually overcome ignorance, whether it be in general or from political parties. I'm especially proud, as I'm sure most homosexuals are, of how I overcame the ever-so-personal struggle to accept who I am, and come "out." No one, no matter what, should have to hide who you are from loved ones. There should be no closet. Could you imagine having to come out to your parents as ''straight'', if the rest of the world was homosexual, and being heterosexual was ''wrong''? Put it into perspective here.
There's alot to be proud of, especially when it comes to touchy subjects like homosexuality.
We're not parading the streets saying, "I'm gay. Yay me."
We're saying we're proud of who we are. And if heterosexuals have a problem with it, then let them join the rest of the country who are against everything we are.
Also, we do NOT have the same rights. Don't continue to be brainwashed. Congress just RECENTLY passed an act against gay hate crimes. You can still get fired for something as simple as being gay. And you can't forget the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. You don't see them kicking straight people out for no reason whatsoever.
Just think about it.
Good comment -- thanks for dropping by The Shaved Ape. One or two critiques, however:
1) You said, "We're not parading the streets saying, 'I'm gay. Yay me.'" Well, yes, you are. That's the whole point of my post -- Gay Pride festivals.
2) The thing about being closeted, or whatever the GLiB lingo is right now, is not something I need to think about. I don't think about sexuality at all, except to meet hot chix and hopefully do them. That's crass, but that's as far as it goes.
Homosexuals, more than anyone, understand that nearly everyone dislikes homosexuality, for a variety of reasons. People think it's unnatural, or against God, or whatever else. Bottom line, people don't like homosexuals, and all the leftwing propaganda to make them more likable has failed. Am I wrong about that?
As for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," I think it's brilliant. I live my personal life this way. I don't discriminate against homosexuals or dislike them in any way, but when it comes to their sexuality, I prefer if they don't tell me anything, and I'm certainly not going to ask. I don't need, or want, to know what goes on behind their bedroom door. This is true for straights, too. I don't care how good the sex is between my buddy and his woman, and don't want to hear anything about it (unless it involves fisting or something unusual...).
Part of my post pokes fun at how homosexuality is trying to become its own culture. How absurd. It merely defines what sex you want to stroke your genitalia.
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