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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sometimes I think that the gay pride parades actually feed the stereotypes of the anti gay crowd.
I just don't get how guys running around naked with dog collars around their neck, or with a$$less chaps helps, if anything it keeps people away from the Gay Pride parades especially those members of the next generation who are going to need to be even more accepting.
I went to the gay pride parade in Toronto because my girlfriend at the time really wanted to see it, and to be honest some of the more overt acts of sexuallity even made me uncomfortable, and not in the I'm uncomfortable and need to understand this.
More along the lines of why do you have a naked guy wearing leather straps wearing a dog mask crawling around on all fours at your feet kind of uncomfortable?
I think that there is a group of militant gays who's only goal in life is to kind of keep the stereotype alive of a pervese lifestyle because it allows them to keep fighting.
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I would tend to agree with a lot of this, though I think I understand where a lot of it comes from too.
When you are ridiculed, abused, threatened, attacked, etc. just for being who you are, the natural reaction is to defend it. And the best way to do that is to celebrate it, and to take away that which is used against you.
It's the same thing as black people taking back the word n*gger, or females empowering the word bitch.
If gay people go over the top and celebrate the craziest things that are part of gay culture and empower those things, they can't be used against them. If your ok with crawling downtown in front of people in a dog collar it pretty much takes away all their power over you when it comes to mocking you.
Now, this may have been more important in years past, now that there is more acceptance of gay lifestyle and culture, but it's hard to blame (for lack of a better word cause I know that's not exactly what you meant CC) the group that has had to fight back for their rights, safety, and place in society.