Happy Pride!

[Volpina Vance]

 

[cjac7214]

You should be on a float! By yourself! Yum!

Looking forward to tomorrow!

 

[jordan]

I love pride day........

I think I will go both ways tomorrow! Enjoy tomorrow my fellow perbs. Lots of Kisses Jordan:nod:

 

[Kali.Kaos]

Happy Pride Everyone!!! I hope you all come out tomorrow and show your support like I will be! xx

 

[CorriGuy]

When will we have the Happy Straight Day? I'd like to go to THAT one.

Silly rabbit. Every day is happy straight day.

 

[CorriGuy]

But other LGBT people do not support Pride parades.

Some fault them for giving foes of the community ammunition with which to disparage the movement. They cite the often sex positive and flamboyant displays that are customarily part of the parades as enforcing the stereotype that LGBT people are silly, genderbending, sex-crazed freaks. They worry that LGBT people will never gain acceptance from the mainstream if they continue to flaunt their "otherness."

Still others do not feel connected to the LGBT community in this way or feel that Pride parades do not represent them for a variety of reasons and, therefore, they choose not to attend Pride parades.

So, where do you stand?[/I]

yeh I can agree with that. I fully support LGBT to the point where it is (or should be) a non issue. But I have stopped going to the Pride parade because it is just too over the top in enforcing stereotypes. The last time I went to one, I was thinking "what if a bunch of guys had a "I love huge knockers" parade day and flaunted their love for that. Wouldn't go over well. Or women parading on a "I love big dicks" day. Again, wouldn't go over too well.

But LGBT is unfortunately an issue with too many bigots and bible bangers and the like so I see why it still goes strong. I'd like to live in a world where it is such a non issue that a parade's reason for being is moot.

 

[uncleg]

 

[luvsdaty]

I just don't care if people are gay/lesbian/transgendered It's not hurting me in any way,if you treat me with respect, you'll get the same in return.

 

[working-man]

Went out and enjoyed my third Pride Parade! It's all about supporting your community! Everybody has different opionions, but together we all can have some fun once in a while!!!

Eat a Bavarian smokie and drink your freshly squeezed lime lemonade!!! Cheers!!!

Happy Pride Everyone!!!!

 

[uncleg]

Went out and enjoyed my third Pride Parade! It's all about supporting your community! Everybody has different opionions, but together we all can have some fun once in a while!!!

Eat a Bavarian smokie and drink your freshly squeezed lime lemonade!!! Cheers!!!

Happy Pride Everyone!!!!

...........yup........nothing like chowing down on a sausage at a pride parade..............:thumb:

 

[Holly Taylor]

It's okay to be Takei!...

I bought the shirt when it first came out

I love Star Trek, and I love Gay Pride!

 

[BenSisko]

Why can't there be a mass shooting at a gay pride rally?

 

[bcneil]

Why can't there be a mass shooting at a gay pride rally?

Wow shocking, the global warming denier is anti gay too.
hooray jesus

 

[blazejowski]

Why can't there be a mass shooting at a gay pride rally?

Are you for real???
If I was a mod, I'd ban you for life for saying something that asinine....

 

[Killdozer]

I looked at his profile, and the first thing I read was "bensisko has not made any friends yet". Oddly, I wasn't the least bit surprised.

 

[uncleg]

Why can't there be a mass shooting at a gay pride rally?

Are you for real???
If I was a mod, I'd ban you for life for saying something that asinine....

.............remember a member that kept getting banned for stupidity ?????? He also had a thing for handles relating to Star Trek....................Get the feeling he's back.............question is .......how long ?

 

[HankQuinlan]

Why can't there be a mass shooting at a gay pride rally?

I'm sorry, but that is disgusting and unsuitable for saying (or even thinking) anywhere. If I was a mod, you would be banned permanently for being such an ugly, stupid, ignorant person.

 

[Holly Taylor]

This coming from the guy infatuated with ITB and LAG.

My point was simple. Be proud of being LGBT or whatever, but I should have the right to be proud of being straight too, no? Where's my parade? Didn't think so.

Marginalized minorities require special care and attention. Heterosexuality is already privileged in our culture. It doesn't need to be celebrated - it already is celebrated every single day of the year. Straight people don't face discrimination for being straight. Straight people don't need to worry about being able to marry. Straight people don't need to worry about being assaulted for being straight. Straight people don't need to worry about being fired for being straight. Straight people don't need to worry about being shunned by their families for being straight.

In effect, every day is Straight Pride Day.

There is nothing wrong with being happy about being straight, and wanting to celebrate your straight sexuality. But straight people do not need a parade. They do not face discrimination for being straight.

Why Have A Gay Pride Parade?
by David Nava

"When do we get our parade?"

The question was asked more in fun than with envy, more in joking than with malice, but it struck a chord with me. I had casually mentioned to a couple of my straight friends that the Gay Pride Parade was coming up and I was looking forward to it.

"What about Straight Pride Day?" the female of the couple asked with a grin.

"Everyday is Straight Pride Day," I answered, also grinning. "This culture celebrates it with gay abandon." She laughed.

"When do we get our parade?" demanded her male counterpart.

"Turn the television on." I said. "There's your parade." We all laughed and went about our business but the brief exchange kept coming back to me through the week. The more I thought about it the more serious it became.

Why have a Gay Pride Parade? It's a question many straight people might be asking in the next few weeks. Gay people, I believe, inherently, intuitively know why we have a parade. We have a Gay Pride Parade because 25 years ago a bunch of drag queens at a bar called The Stonewall fought back for the first time when the police overstepped the bounds of their authority for the millionth time, thereby launching the Gay Liberation Movement. We have a Gay Pride Parade so that at least for one day in a year we can walk down the streets of where we live and show our numbers for all the world to see. We have a Gay Pride Parade to celebrate our defeat of The Closet, to have a day when we can proclaim, without reservation, who we are and who we love.

So, when do the straight people get their own parade?

When straight people are prevented from marrying the people they choose to marry, precluded from enjoying tax benefits available to married people, then they should have a parade. When straight people are barred from serving their country in the military, then they should have a parade. When straight people are routinely fired from their jobs because of who they love with or live with then they should have a parade. When straight people are blocked from holding sensitive jobs in the government merely because of their sexual orientation, then they should have a parade. When straight people are forbidden to raise their own children or to adopt others, if they so choose, then they should have a parade. When straight people are beaten, harassed and shot at for holding hands in public then I'll march in their parade.

 

[Holly Taylor]

This article is also helpful:

Why Can't We Have a Straight Pride Parade?
By Todd Schoepflin

Occasionally, when talking about sexual orientation in my Sociology courses, a student will ask “Why can’t we have a straight pride parade?”

It hasn’t happened a lot, but enough students have asked the question to make me want to offer a response. I want to point out that the question tends to come out of nowhere. It’s not as if I lecture on the history of gay pride parades, or offer a sociological analysis of gay pride parades, which might open the door to such a question. Rather, the question gets asked during general discussions of sexual behavior. The question tends to surprise me, so I haven’t yet offered a consistent response in class.

I do tend to begin by answering the question with some questions: Why? Why would you want to have a straight pride parade? What kind of parade would it be? What purpose would it serve? I ask those kinds of questions as a way of pointing out that a parade doesn’t seem necessary for a group that enjoys a privileged way of life.

Here’s a blunt way of saying it: Life is a straight pride parade. Walk through a mall holding the hand of someone of the opposite sex. Will that generate a dirty look? Bring home someone of the opposite sex to meet your family. Will there be disapproval? Do you have to “come out of the closet” to announce you’re straight? My point is that heterosexual relationships are encouraged and accepted in society. And while there is more approval for LGBT relationships than in past decades, there is still not full tolerance and acceptance for those relationships in society.

One function of a gay pride parade is to seek acceptance and understanding from society. Another purpose, it seems, is to spend a day with a group of supportive people. A man like me doesn’t need to march in a straight pride parade because I can walk in any public space with my wife and not be harassed, judged, mocked, or harmed in any way because of our sexuality. The question “Why can’t we have a straight pride parade?” suggests that straight people are being deprived of something in some way. I just don’t see how that’s the case. Heterosexuality is embraced by our society. It is not a basis for discrimination. So my answer, in sum, is that no parade is needed.

 

[CorriGuy]

I disagree with that. Straight people don't run around flaunting their straightness. Ok sure you have the odd couple kissing in public, but really for the most part it's not flaunted the same way gay people do running down a street proclaiming their gayness like it's what everybody needs to see.

You are kidding, right? I've seen crazy amounts of PDA by straight people in various scenarios where there's barely an eyelash batted, but if two gay guys were going at it in the same manner, you'd get lots of disgusted looks.

Straight people go around flaunting their straightness all the time. ALL THE TIME. Gay folks... I can tell you that in many parts of the so-called civilised world, if two dudes even walked down the street holding hands they risk a beating 100% of the time. Try going to Poland or Hungary and be openly gay. Try going to many red states in the US for that matter. They got guns there.

We're spoiled in here in Vancouver in that for the most part, people are like me when it comes to LGBT. "I don't give a shit". PDA between two guys is the exact same to me as PDA between a man and a woman. Many folks in our fine city who call themselves Vancouverites feel the same way. You can tolerate PDA or not like PDA, that's one issue, but whether it's two guys or a guy and a girl, most people don't care. In my case, if it was two smokin' hot women, well, I guess I would care, in a positive way

But Vancouver isn't the rest of the world on GLBT. Hell Vancouver isn't even the rest of Canada on GLBT. Check out TO's Mayor and his take on Gay Pride Parade.

The reality is, every day is Straight Pride day around the world. PDA all over the place, romance in the air, proposals in public, dinner dates, a kiss goodbye its all straight and all okay. Be gay and do the EXACT SAME THING? Get ready for an ass whippin' in most parts of this planet. Cuz "that's not right" as some yokel from Arkansas might say.

So, you're kidding, right?