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I think it's reasonable.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/gayprid…
Honestly, though, this year's Pride Parade in Seattle contained some major turn offs for me and other homos I know. Specifically, a group of men that included one that was on all fours (with wheels), wearing nothing but a jock strap and a butt plug with a tail.
This rises to the level of forcing others to participate in your play time, which is unacceptable. It isn't erasing "queer" to require actual sexual acts to not happen in the parade. It's being sensible, and respectful of the many (and I would venture a guess to say majority) of others who do not want to participate in your sex life.
So I suppose I am half (or so) agreeing with the Dallas organizers.
For those with friends that have families, with small kids, I've have many a friend tell me they'd love to come support me at Pride, but don't want their kids seeing all that wang/pussy/tits at 5 years old. Nothing to do with being gay, but all that nudity doesn't make well for families who'd come support their gay friends otherwise.
Sometimes us gays just need to chill... we can kiss, hold hands, hug, lick, poke, whatever - but must we also be completely naked and practically fucking each other in public to feel accepted?
In this case, the Dallas police have decided to crack down, and the Tavern Guild who run the parade are toadying to them, and the gay and lesbian sex-negative crowd are cheering them on.
Why "protect" children from nudity? If you think bodies and human skin are naughty, then you want to "protect" the kids, I guess - although that just causes problems in the kids heads, since they have their own bodies and skins, and have to somehow reconcile that fact with the anti-body message. It seems to me that kids are being confused and mistreated by this supposedly "family friendly" stuff, but this is Texas, so a lot of the gay and lesbian sex-negative crowd here were raised in Christian homes where they, themselves, were taught confusing and bad lessons. They're just passing them on. Too bad.
And of course Pride should remain outlandish, sex-positive, novel, burlesque. Let the mainstream prudes, gay and straight, cluck their tongues and whine "N.A.L.T." And let those who do not wish to shield their children from an outlandish, novel, burlesque, sex-positive culture attend and celebrate.
This is what it looks like to be let into the Good Ol' Boy network... so flex your new found normative-powers and start dictating what's acceptable and what's not!
Fuck marriage and fuck the right to serve in the military and the assimilationist agenda. This is the opposite of liberation.
As I stated, nudity is fine. It is when that turns into actual sex acts that a line can and should be drawn. I honestly do not think it is too much to ask folks to keep their fucking in adult venues and at home.
For little girls.
Looks like the Tea Party added a tea room.
The rallying cry of every bullying coward is "for the children."
Children thrive in a positive environment of free expression; they wither under the oppressive regime of violence and forced normalization.
Deal with your own self-hate, shame and guilt, adults, and stop spreading your joy-killing disease to yet another generation.
Tear off the door and burn those closets down. We're not going back.
Fight on, my lovelies.
Thus does Pride increasingly resemble the banality of mainstream America - not a place that celebrates diversity, but one that celebrates blandness. As Jayne Loader said, America transforms that which is threatening into commodities for sale, drained of their original meaning.
Sad but true. That is the price we will pay for equality.
It's really cheering.
Grow the fuck up, Dallas.
And with that you're proving everything rational people say about homosexuality. A sexual expression that requires public near sex acts and nudity to be 'real' is at heart sick and deviant.
FYI, wanting our children to share the self respect that keeps nudity and sexual behavior private isn't sex negative or any kind of problem. It merely emphasizes the difference in sexually healthy adults between us and, say, my dog.
Plus, have you seen straight culture? Walk into nearly any convenience store and you'll see girlie mags out in the open extolling the wonders of silicone. Think of the children!
I strongly support gay marriage even though I thought not being expected to get married was one of the benefits of being gay. And often, marriage begets children. hooray for spawns-of-gays! But the mainstreamization of queerness is dull. I thought the dude with the plug was OTT but I'd rather see him than the endless chain of unimaginative corporate ads that comprised most of the rest of Seattle Pride this year.