What you do in the privacy of your bedroom is your business (jot that down Rick Sanatorum). I support gay rights- I do not support marriages, because marriage is actually defined as a union between a man and a woman. However, I do support the Civil Unions now in place in Vermont, which states that a gay couple can live in a "common law" type marriage, get the same benfits as straight couples, etc. As far as the parade itself, I'm not sure the whole "We're Here and We're Queer" message is going to accomplish your goal. Sure, you can have your Pride Parade, but let's make it a little less arrogant. Of course, I want we straights to all accept the gay community, and I want the gays to accept the straight community. However, being gay is a sexual thing, it IS not actually a way of life. Straights go to straight bars, gays go to gay bars. They both do go to bars, however, but they do to bars that accomidate their sexual interests. However, straights have jobs, gays have jobs. Straights drive normal looking cars, gays driving normal looking cars. Get the point? "Gay Life" really is solely based on what goes on behind closed doors. The Gay Pride Parade features hundreds of gays dressed in their flashy outfits (which they normally would not wear) just to send across that message, "We're Here, and We're Queer". I would reccomend that gays treat this as what it is- a sexual thing. How about normal dressed people who are gay walking through the streets and demanding their rights? There's nothing wrong with that. However, it seems to be that the flashy outfits and other "festivities" seem to be aimed at creating a more anti-straight attitude, rather than a pro-gay attitude. Gays are human beings just like everyone else, and I suggest that be the message they send accross. Do not try to get your rights by defying straights- seek your rights by claiming that you deserve them just like anyone else. God Speed. "And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all charish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John F. Kennedy- 1963.
