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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Allright, I'm not going to comment on the gay pride parade getting funding because I don't have all of the facts.
However, does anyone else think that gay pride parades actually do more harm than good as far as acceptance of being gay goes?
When I see any sort of coverage of a gay pride parade, all I notice are the groups of "Mr. Slave" wannabes wandering down the street half naked.
Why is it that a gay pride parade seems to be more like a weird fettish pride parade.
Isn't that exactly the stereotypes that the gay community would rather not have associated with them?
Maybe I'm way off base here, and maybe there are big gay marching bands that follow the leather clad group like in a normal parade, but that's now what the average person sees, and perception is reality. If the point of the parade is to say "Hey look at all the freaky things we do, and the majority of gay folks are into weird leather fetishes, and walking around with giant rubber fists" then that's cool have a good time.
Though in the more likely event that the parade, should convey a message of "We're just like you except we're attracted to people with the same bits as us" then maybe a format change is in order.
Sorry if this is a bit of derailment, but I think that the message the parade portrays is pretty important in deciding whether or not it gets funding. That's why I brought it up.
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It is a celebration of not having to hide your inner colours. For some people it is about celebrating sexual diversity by dressing up in leather or dessing in drag, for some others it is about marching as just your average joe.
The media prefers to air the most outlandish parts of the parade, but one thing they always miss are the marchers like PFLAG (parents and friends of lesbians and gays) when they marched by my friend starting talking to one of the parents and they ended up in tears and hugged each other over the fence between the crowd and the marchers. The parade is many different things, and one it's best aspects is that it is a way of telling people that they dont have to listen to the external or internal voices telling them that they are social deviants whom God hates. Telling them that it is ok to be free and be who they are.