Is anyone participating in any PRIDE events this month?
I put the PRIDE flag filter on my Facebook profile photo.
I am also running in the Pride 5 mile race in Central Park. It is always a festive morning with marriages and proposals. I usually by a Frontrunners shirt to support the LGBT running club. It is also a chance to sign any petitions and get caught up on the going ons in LGBT civil Rights movement.
I am not going to the parade though.
What about you guys?
I was planning on soccer kicking an Asian guy in the head but nothing official
Why?
They have all the rights as everyone else now. They won, I’m happy they did but the war is over, go home.
Are you going to run this race in a rainbow speedo?
No. I don’t really care about other peoples’ sexual orientation.
CaptainWoody - Why?They have all the rights as everyone else now. They won, I'm happy they did but the war is over, go home.</span></blockquote>
There are constant challenges, and lobby groups and religious groups fighting to overturn supreme court decisions.
There is a religious group fighting to uphold sodomy laws and have pressed lawsuits in states to criminally prosecute homosexuals for having sex. (Family Research Council)
To think that there isn't discrimination in the workplace towards the LGBT community is naive.
Plus the events are fun.
j-money -Are you going to run this race in a rainbow speedo?
No, I will wear my standard The North Face "Better than Naked" 3" inseam running shorts and my "Achilles Guide" Jersey as I am guiding a disabled athlete.
Nope.
When I still lived in the city, I would usually go to the parade. Mainly because the route ran at the end of my street and it was too hard to move around the neighborhood. And my gay neighbors usually threw down a wicked party.
I hate to sound like a PRIDE parade hipster or snob, but it was a lot more fun before gay people became much more accepted, around 1999-2000. Then it got way too crowded and the neighborhood started getting way more trashed.
It got way too big the last couple of years and they had to change the route and add a lot more police.
My favorite group in the parade was this gay/lesbo bar called "Big Chicks". They always had a double decker tour bus with everyone dressed in bondage gear whipping the shit out of each other while they cranked heavy metal.
Not since they banned the cops from marching in the parade.
CaptainWoody - Why?They have all the rights as everyone else now. They won, I’m happy they did but the war is over, go home.
Agreed. I’m 32 now and spent my teenage and younger adult year basically being on the ready to defend gay people who go shit talked or fucked with at bars or in public because there were people who would occasionally say or do some fucked up shit from time to time.
There’s almost zero people who do that type of thing anymore, that struggle is pretty much over. I’m still ready to step in and defend someone who can’t defend themselves, but I’m not going to go out of my way to attend events and what not. We’re all pretty damn equal now.
dhughes -"I put the PRIDE flag filter on my Facebook profile photo."
Thanks!
dhughes -"I put the PRIDE flag filter on my Facebook profile photo."
Fucking perfect
Zned -CaptainWoody - Why?They have all the rights as everyone else now. They won, I'm happy they did but the war is over, go home.</span></blockquote>
There are constant challenges, and lobby groups and religious groups fighting to overturn supreme court decisions.
There is a religious group fighting to uphold sodomy laws and have pressed lawsuits in states to criminally prosecute homosexuals for having sex. (Family Research Council)
To think that there isn't discrimination in the workplace towards the LGBT community is naive.
Plus the events are fun.
Of course, there are challenges to all kinds of non-traditional family type stuff that the religious will always keep rolling with. Nobody really cares though and none of that is getting pushed through. Let's be real.
“Plus the events are fun.”
Hanging out with half naked men dressed like women swinging huge dildos around isn’t my idea of fun…but to each their own
CaptainWoody - "Plus the events are fun."Hanging out with half naked men dressed like women swinging huge dildos around isn’t my idea of fun…but to each their own
The race isn't like that.
Just a fun 5 mile race, lots of families, lots of fun.
You get a rainbow ice pop at the finish line.
Zned -CaptainWoody - "Plus the events are fun."Hanging out with half naked men dressed like women swinging huge dildos around isn’t my idea of fun…but to each their own
The race isn't like that.
Just a fun 5 mile race, lots of families, lots of fun.
You get a rainbow ice pop at the finish line.
So every 5K ever then? lol.
I will be at Kyiv Pride on Sunday.
It is a bit different in the West. For the last two years, it has been protected by a small army of police. Mostly because a few different embassies sent delegations and the city administration can't have ambassadors get the shit kicked out of them by a gang of neo-Nazis.
So many neo-Nazis.
I am eating pancakes every sunday this month because pancakes are the preferred breakfast food of gay people.
anthonyMI -I will be at Kyiv Pride on Sunday.
It is a bit different in the West. For the last two years, it has been protected by a small army of police. Mostly because a few different embassies sent delegations and the city administration can't have ambassadors get the shit kicked out of them by a gang of neo-Nazis.
So many neo-Nazis.
Man thats crazy....
Zned -CaptainWoody - "Plus the events are fun."Hanging out with half naked men dressed like women swinging huge dildos around isn’t my idea of fun…but to each their own
The race isn't like that.
Just a fun 5 mile race, lots of families, lots of fun.
You get a rainbow ice pop at the finish line.
A rainbow ice pop? Reeeaaaally?
