Over the last few years, I have refused to attend the annual gay pride parades here in Chicago. I used to attend a few years back.
For me, it was a day to have a few drinks, celebrate with friends, and ultimately have a good time.
Lately; however, it has changed for me. The focus of gay pride used to be the celebration of individuals who are proud to be gay and exemplify behaviors to show our fellow Americans that we – just like everyone else – are hardworking citizens who are here to stay. From the current displays of gay pride, we now see that it focuses more on the right to parade up and down the streets in chaps, various pieces of leather, and to display our rights to vulgarly make out with various individuals in the middle of the street in front of others.
Also, various straight groups into S&M, swinging, etc. are coming out more each year to use the day of gay pride to celebrate their own freakish fetishes. What do these have to do with gay pride? And is our community so pathetic that we cannot be choosy about how our day of commemeration is being exploited by other groups like this?
Other unapproved-of groups include NAMBLA and Democratic politicians.
Let one Christian show up though to talk to the community about God and let’s see who the gay elites will have the problem with.
In an article written yesterday, St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko says:
“When it comes to the protection of people’s rights and freedoms,
including those of sexual minorities, this should be within a legal
framework. Demonstrating such delicate and intimate things and staging
provocative actions seems wrong to me”
As I have said before, it is the kind of people we choose to hang out with and the way we present ourselves that are amplifying the segregation factor that already plagues us as a community.
steveflesher
Philip
Mel Maguire
Mark Ciavola
Comments
I have never and will never go to a gay pride parade because of the very displays of overt sexuality that are present.
I feel the protection of children from those types of behavior should be practiced.
For Heaven’s sake, let a kid be a kid!
There is plenty of time for them to develop an opinion of the gay community.
The “Gay Pride” issue has turned more to ‘Gay Display’ as there seems to be an effort to re-inforce the previously negative public perceptions that for many years many of us have struggled to overcome.
Even survival, let alone pride, gives way to the moment.
In Boston, while the “Gay Pride Parade” was mustering, only five blocks away a procession to the New England Islamic Center was already under-way. To bad the Priders didn’t flip their torsoes at the crowd that would have them killed as opposed to the crowd that is indifferent but for the traffic congestion.
NEIC got its property through a city agency upon which a super-gay sits. Kind of like giving them a place to build an armory.
Sometimes, like DD, I question whether certain events shouldn’t be held after the kids are asleep and the dogs have been walked.