Gay Rights Backlash since Supreme Court Ruling

[Alyrium Denryle]

Perhaps the attire of their professions.

Sort of a "we are your teachers your doctors your lawyers" sort of thing.

[kojikun]

Perhaps the attire of their professions.

Sort of a "we are your teachers your doctors your lawyers" sort of thing.

yes precisely. looking like the normal people they are.

[Darth Wong]

I wonder what the general reaction would be if the next major Gay Pride parade featured nothing but gays and lesbians walking down the street in business attire, simply smiling and waving.

Everybody would think they were Mormons, and we would all run away for fear of the inevitable proselytizing.

Seriously, just try to picture a horde of people in suits walking around with big smiles plastered on their faces. I'd be more comfortable with a bunch of flamboyant weirdoes exposing themselves

[Stormbringer]

IRL my behavior is toned down... Here I am rather comfortable though, accepting atmosphere and all... I can understand the uncomfortableness(is this even a word? oh well, it is now), but still... doesnt make it any less hypocritical. Doesnt bother me when they discuss who they are attracted to

It might be hypocritical but that's how it is.

[kojikun]

Everybody would think they were Mormons, and we would all run away for fear of the inevitable proselytizing.

Seriously, just try to picture a horde of people in suits walking around with big smiles plastered on their faces. I'd be more comfortable with a bunch of flamboyant weirdoes exposing themselves

Naw we'd have to be be in just dress pants and plain white shirts to be mistaken for mormons.

[Alyrium Denryle]

(it is really funny when you can disturb the mormons so badly that they sing hymns to their god at the doorstep )


The business attire ould make us look like Jws

What we need to do is dress in the attire of our professions

[The Duchess of Zeon]

VERY interesting. This could be related to the court ruling, particularly with teh religious right nuts praying to God about the awfulness of the Supreme Court and their backing of unnatural acts. But considering that a rapidly dwindling number of states still have a sodomy law on the books, at least on the local level there SHOULD be a relaxing off attitudes towards gays.

There must be more to this trend, perhaps a response to the more militant in your face gay rights activists and TV's current spate of stereotypical gay portrayals may have something to do with this as well.

Reaction is expected.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

Everybody would think they were Mormons, and we would all run away for fear of the inevitable proselytizing.

Seriously, just try to picture a horde of people in suits walking around with big smiles plastered on their faces. I'd be more comfortable with a bunch of flamboyant weirdoes exposing themselves

...You know, that's the best argument I've heard yet for flamboyant parades.

[Bob McDob]

Everybody would think they were Mormons, and we would all run away for fear of the inevitable proselytizing.

Hehe ... Gay Mormons.

I guess we could get the Log Cabin Republicans to do it, too <G>

[The Dark]

Considering the fact that even races are still largely segregated in America, this is not surprising. How can we progress to acceptance of sexual orientation when people are still hung up on something as unimportant as skin colour?

DW, I just read a study on this. Other than the "traditional" areas (LA's Chinatown, Orlando's Little Saigon, Miami's Little Havana), most segregation is based on income. The only ethnicity that does not integrate by income is African-American, which do tend to live in different areas. Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and Caucasians all integrate with each other based upon family income. The authors were working on a follow-up looking for possible reasons for this.

To be honest the more militant ones to irritate me... I can make gay jokes about myself...

But people complain about the the "in your face" gays. I am harrssed because I am forward, upfront and casual with my sexuality. I discuss it just like any straight man. Just like anyy straight man will let their friends know if they think a girl is hot, I do the same thing... But when I do it, I am "flaunting my sexualty" Does anyone see the hypocracy in that???

Straight males typically don't want to hear about someone's sexual assessment of another male. It's similar to a straight male commenting about a women while he is the company of straight women.

Maybe I'm just weird, but when I'm chilling with my gay friends, it doesn't bug me if they say some guy's hot. I'll just respond by pointing out a girl I think is hot, and (depending on who it is), they'll either let it drop or make it into a contest of who can find more (and hotter) people of their preferred orientation. All of us (both hetero and homo) are fairly easy-going about it, and we're all working on understanding what's attractive to others in our group of friends (we shamelessly advise each other on who's datable).

[kojikun]

Maybe I'm just weird, but when I'm chilling with my gay friends, it doesn't bug me if they say some guy's hot. I'll just respond by pointing out a girl I think is hot, and (depending on who it is), they'll either let it drop or make it into a contest of who can find more (and hotter) people of their preferred orientation. All of us (both hetero and homo) are fairly easy-going about it, and we're all working on understanding what's attractive to others in our group of friends (we shamelessly advise each other on who's datable).

good man. ::huggle:: thats how it should be

[Sam Or I]

I really don't point out attractive girls, only when asked by someone else if she is hot, or in the company of close friends, but never just a random guy. Me and my girlfriend check out women together as well (she is bi, and leans more towards women than guys). I admittingly have never hung out with a male homosexual off work, then again I have no sense who is gay and who is not, I am always the last one to figure it out. I really don't care for that matter, and sexual orentaition is the last thing that goes through my mind when I meet some one, unless they try and act the "gay" sterotype, and even then I am somewhat niave.