Off line all weekend. Happy Pride, stay safe, have fun, remember the wins and the lost. Forward ever, backward never.
I see that our President is going to be dedicating a new monument at Stonewall, Inn. http://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483385747/obama-names-lgbt-landmark-as-national-monument
I can't believe shit like this still happens, but how can I forget that two weeks ago 49 people were gunned down in a gay club. http://komonews.com/news/local/seat...-report-of-transgender-attack-on-capitol-hill
As a Christian I am offended by the use of the word pride in this forum. There, now use a generic word cause I bitched about it Kidding. I find it sad we have to have special days and months for people. I think it further divides the citizens of the United States. I mean that as support.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/25/san-francisco-gay-pride-corporate-orlando-shooting Too straight, white and corporate: why some queer people are skipping SF Pride Disaffected by the annual parade, members of San Francisco’s LGBT community are choosing alternative events to celebrate identity and solidarity with Orlando San Francisco resident Katy Birnbaum is eager to gather with other queer people on Pride weekend, especially after such a violent attack against LGBT people in Orlando. But when roughly a million people pack into downtown on Sunday for one of the largest, most high-profile Pride parades in the world, Birnbaum won’t be standing in the crowd. “It just feels like a big Miller Lite tent,” said Birnbaum, 31. “With the corporate floats … it’s co-opting queer identity as a way to make money.” Instead of attending the formal SF Pride events on Sunday, Birnbaum will be going to an intimate LGBT film festival in a community space six miles south of city hall in an area known as the Bayview – one of the only remaining black neighborhoods in the city. Birnbaum, who helped organize the all-day film event, is one of many LGBT people in the Bay Area who plans to skip the mainstream Pride festivities in the northern California city known internationally as a mecca for gay people. While queer people said it’s important to come out on Pride as a way to stand up to the violence in Orlando and discriminatory laws across the country, some said the San Francisco parade has become too corporate, straight and white to feel like an appropriate setting to show LGBT solidarity.
Tl;dr we are go8ng to fight bigotry with bigotry! (No hetero) ew a straightgot get outta here straighty before we flick our wrists at you and intentionally lisp!
Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong Whether I find a place in this world or never belong I gotta be me, I've gotta be me What else can I be but what I am I want to live, not merely survive And I won't give up this dream Of life that keeps me alive I gotta be me, I gotta be me The dream that I see makes me what I am That far away prize, a world of success Is waiting for me if I heed the call I won't settle down, won't settle for less As long as there's a chance that I can have it all I'll go it alone, that's how it must be I can't be right for somebody else If I'm not right for me I gotta be free, I've gotta be free Daring to try, to do it or die I've gotta be me Songwriters WALTER MARKS Published by Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. Read more: Sammy Davis Jr. - I've Gotta Be Me Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Yeah but they say "too straight." You want acceptance but being associated with straight people repulses you? You dont see the irony here?
Wow, seems while I was away people who never went to Pride decided what is wrong with it! First - Saturday at Hillary Clinton table. Signed up a ton of potential volunteers, now all those sign in sheets have to be transcribed into computers, sigh. Met interesting people. A man told me he had campaigned for her in 2008, then joined the Air Force. Recently got out and is back in civilian life ready to campaign again. Welcome home and thank you for your service. A man said in very careful English, pointing to Hillary button, "I am from Korea. May I have one of those?" A naked man purchased a Hillary button. I did not ask him what he is pinning it to. A woman commented that the men who show up in the altogether are never the hunky ones. Obviously, hunky men can get attention without disrobing. Sunday the Parade. Other times contingents I've participated in have been near the back so we arrived at 10 AM and stood around until 12 or later waiting to join. But the Hillary for America contingent was tapped to escort Gavin Newsom and were right up front, started walking before 10:30 and arrived so early at Civic Center I wondered where everyone was! Newsom is the most popular politician in the San Francisco gay/lesbian/bi/transgender community by a mile; it's not close. He does not need to disrobe to be cheered! More security than in past years, for fairly obvious reasons. Best T-shirt: Make America Gay Again Runners up: Straight Outta the Closet; Buns Not Guns (the illustration was NOT a bakery) A big We are Orlando contingent with posters of the victims. I just read that survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing traveled to Orlando to visit survivors of the Pulse massacre. Denny, you copied/pasted an article quoting someone saying the march is too corporate which I guess means, something? I know you are not anti-corporate, so what is the point? She is wrong. I was marching before it was even called Pride. In 1971 when I was 16 there were no corporate sponsors, no gay cops, the only religious organization was the gay Metropolitan Community Church and even the most liberal politicians would not come near us. The fact that all those people are now there is a sign of our strength that they have been pulled in. We always said "we are everywhere" which was true be we were also mostly in the closet. It's a testament to our success as a movement that the Parade has become a major urban event. I agree that corporations with lousy labor and environmental records do not get a pass because they put a rainbow on their logo one week of the year, and if you are getting your head blown off it hardly matters if the cop is gay or straight. But this is not a protest march; we do those and will continue to. It's a Parade. It's our whole community. Being gay is not some priesthood to be limited to those who pass some arcane purity test. We are everywhere and everyone. MarAzul said gay equality is "appropriating", grabbing something we have no right to. You know, if you say we gays no right to equality, someone might call you a homophobe. MarAzul loves to issue pronouncements about things he knows nothing about and once again is absurdly wrong saying a Pride Parade divides us. You'd have a hard time finding a greater example of unity than Pride. People from all over the world come to SF for Pride. Every ethnicity, color, gender, sexual orientation, age. Veterans, drag queens, professionals, leather fanciers, techies, students, faith communities (I saw Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Wiccan), bikers, vegans, nudists, politicians, unions, grandparents, even Republicans. Aside from some snarky comments, all getting along for this one day. There are no fistfights at Pride. Is there any other venue where you can cram a million people into a small space, with blocked streets you can't cross, sidewalks so congested getting from Point A to Point B is an acrobatic feat, transit crammed to the seams, loud music, insufficient sanitary facilities despite the City's best efforts, and have virtually no crime and only a few minor injuries (sprained ankles, heat stroke)?
I am not "anti corporate" because it is a voluntary association, the liability protection is a must if you want to raise capital, they provide ~25% of the jobs in the country, and their success means good things for the 99%'s retirement plans. But I am against special favors by government for specific corporations. The article is what the article is. A number of gay people don't like the Pride thing because it's become commercialized. Even if corporations are involved, the whole thing is voluntary association. It's not like government brought in the corporations and passed a law including a mandate you had to go.
Actually my lady, you didn't do the appropriating. The SC did it for you. The definition of the word marriage has been a man and a woman (sometime women) for thousands of years. The four major religions all have the same understanding of marriage. The SC of the United States is supreme in judging US law. In my view, the justices did not restrain themselves and exceeded there authority when they change the meaning of the word marriage to be something else. It appears they took it upon themselves to override the teaching of all the prophets of all religions that have spoke to the subject in the last 5000 years. That would be appropriation from the followers and supporters of those religions, to change the meaning of the word, that has religious meaning and value to them. A vast majority of the people, many of whom don't mind or even care if you join to together however you wish, but it is not the same as the covenant of a man and a woman before their God. Our Constitution gives us religious liberty and the government has no place in that field, but they just stepped in (the SC), and changed the meaning of one of the institutions that has stood since ancient times. You were not deprived of equal justice in any way, unless you think you need the tax break. Well I don't really know if congress intended to give the gay the married tax break. They probably would not do it today if it came up. I think they intended to encourage the traditional family as the foundation of our society. Perhaps that could be viewed as unjust, I don't know.
