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THIS IS EXACTLY MY VIEW ON GAY PRIDE PARADES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s
If you change the word black for gay in this video it makes perfect sense.
The only reason gay people are ridiculed is because we have parades to celebrate being gay. When is there ever parades to celebrate being straight?
If gay people just stopped talking about it, people will forget and not care.
You don't need floats going down the street with fellas in speedos dancing on them. Because guess what? That draws attention. Mostly negative attention.
If you change the word black for gay in this video it makes perfect sense.
The only reason gay people are ridiculed is because we have parades to celebrate being gay. When is there ever parades to celebrate being straight?
If gay people just stopped talking about it, people will forget and not care.
You don't need floats going down the street with fellas in speedos dancing on them. Because guess what? That draws attention. Mostly negative attention.
That is how I understood Tom's entry and I felt that you didn't see his point so far. Maybe I am wrong.
It seems you are a bit prejudices yourself putting me in a drawer labeled "typical European". By the way: The mayor of Berlin is openly gay so is the German minister for foreign affairs.
And I am not offended by your words. I understand your point of view. I just do not agree with it. But my point of view is valid, it is different than yours, but it is not wrong.
I hope this doesn't com over to frank or unkind. I am not a native speaker and so not familiar with the subtleties of your fine language.
kokswallow, I would also disagree...being gay is just not who I have sex with. It also includes my view of the world. My understanding of who I am. And frankly, hetero's shout their sexuality by assuming that everyone is like them. Hetero sexism is the world view of straight people. And I do not accept that as the given in my live.
That is my world view. I understand yours. And believe you all have the right to it. But, from my experience, the road to inclusion is not paved by fitting in. It is by being real.
Still, it's nice looking at all those hot guys in the parades LOL.
My last point...Good Taste is in the eye of the Taster. What is good taste for you, may not be for others. Personally I don't find a bar filled with leather bears to be tasteful to me...but I won't stop them from being in the parade.
Thomas
Now I will get off my soap box and find my Donna Summer 12"....Thomas