Althouse: I walked down to State Street to get a cup of coffee and ran into a gay pride parade.

August 9, 2015

I walked down to State Street to get a cup of coffee and ran into a gay pride parade.

Today, in Madison, Wisconsin:

54 comments:

rhhardin said...: It puts the mad in madison.; 8/9/15, 6:32 PM
Humperdink said...: Yep, throw your sexuality in my face (and others) again and again and again. That'll win us over.; 8/9/15, 6:35 PM
Michael K said...: Were there assless chaps ? How can it be gay pride without assless chaps ?; 8/9/15, 6:39 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Who cares? Every day is a gay pride parade in San Francisco.; 8/9/15, 6:40 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: Whenever women touched anything did they clearly make it better than we do as guys?

I am Laslo.; 8/9/15, 6:45 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: PFLAG, by Initials, noticeably discludes Transvestites and Transgender.

Narrow-minded grandmas.

I am Laslo.; 8/9/15, 6:49 PM
Fernandinande said...: Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years; 8/9/15, 6:54 PM
lgv said...: Why are they proud. They say they were born that way. It's like being proud of being left handed.

One can be proud of their accomplishments, but I'm not sure that being proud of something you cannot control, like genetics, is illogical. Anyone's pride is not worthy of a parade to advertise it, either.; 8/9/15, 6:56 PM
Bob R said...: Tired of pride parades. Call me for the gluttony and sloth parades. (Yes, it's a stolen joke.); 8/9/15, 6:59 PM
JZ said...: Gay seems like the wrong word to me. I suggest Alternative Lifestyle.; 8/9/15, 7:00 PM
Bob R said...: I'm left-handed, and if I could find a hollow-body electric bass with a 34 inch scale and wide string spacing, I' be very proud.; 8/9/15, 7:04 PM
CarlF said...: Cannot believe how closed-minded PFLAG is by only referring to lesbians and gays.; 8/9/15, 7:11 PM
Quaestor said...: Pride goeth before a fall, as they say.; 8/9/15, 7:16 PM
Quaestor said...: Thanks, Fernandinande! Almost fell out of my chair.; 8/9/15, 7:21 PM
David said...: Overwhelmingly white, as usual in Smugsville. And utterly boring. I lived in Boys Town Chicago for a while in the early 1990's and their parades were quite different, shall we say.; 8/9/15, 7:50 PM
Renee said...: Honestly, it wasn't that bad.

No corporate sponsors.

Just people who come in support ina peaceful manner.

Seemed tamed, designed as a family event. Churches & kids. Some drag, but totally appropriate behavior.; 8/9/15, 7:53 PM
Renee said...: Now this is how NOT to do gay pride.

8 year old, Asia Monet Ray (formally of Dance Moms) trying to be Miley Cyrus with adult male dancers.

https://youtu.be/CR7qvWDHjBM

Creepy; 8/9/15, 7:57 PM
retail lawyer said...: In San Francisco its called the "Pride Parade". Gay is the only recognizable type of pride. Or perhaps LGBT. I may be a month or two behind the times. . . but I'm sure "Gay Pride" is either too restrictive or redundant. And if one is proud of something else, one needs a different word or a trigger warning.; 8/9/15, 7:57 PM
MadisonMan said...: What a bunch of mean-spirited commenters.

Who doesn't love a parade! (I wouldn't have taken a dog though -- kinda humid today); 8/9/15, 8:10 PM
Anonymous said...: A bunch of pedophiles and sexual deviants holding a parade to celebrate their sin. What could go wrong?; 8/9/15, 8:26 PM
dwick said...: CONGRATULATIONS! So what are you going to do for an encore?; 8/9/15, 8:39 PM
Horseball said...: passé; 8/9/15, 8:49 PM
Unknown said...: It used to be called the love that dare not say its name.
Now it's the love that won't shut up.; 8/9/15, 9:20 PM
walter said...: Call PETA, I think that dog may have been abused. By being paraded for "the cause"..nothing else.
Seems more tame than ones I've seen there. I mean..no thong wearing dude spraying the crowd with his super-soaker? No morbidly obese goth gal breathing fire?
I think they've lost their edge.; 8/9/15, 9:31 PM
CWJ said...: Why today?; 8/9/15, 9:42 PM
walter said...: I've never heard any significance given to the date they do it. But they clearly need to get the word out if Ann encountered it through happenstance.
So why not join the parade, Ann?; 8/9/15, 9:47 PM
SeanF said...: Renee: Now this is how NOT to do gay pride.

8 year old, Asia Monet Ray (formally of Dance Moms) trying to be Miley Cyrus with adult male dancers.

I wonder if "back-up dancer for eight-year-old girl" is something they put on their resumes.

Or maybe that's why they wore masks.; 8/9/15, 9:49 PM
walter said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/9/15, 9:53 PM
walter said...: Hey Bay Area Guy,
Years ago I was in SF and saw the parade there. What sticks in my memory is the "Mirth and Girth Society" float complete with fat bondage outfitted white guy strapped to a post with ball in mouth...and the Asian man with boy on his shoulders watching the float go by. Yes..everyone loves a parade...; 8/9/15, 9:54 PM
William said...: It seemed sedate and well mannered. The transvestities looked a little sheepish. A gay pride parade really needs a body builder with naked buttocks, black leather chaps, and a daffodil sticking out his ass to set the tone......I wonder what would happen if a tv dressed up as a southern belle and waved a Confrderate flag.; 8/9/15, 10:06 PM
Valentine Smith said...: Man someone pounded that march with an ugly stick. I wanna know if the person in charge of all the G & L's relegates all the ugly brothers and sisters to the podunk towns in the midwest.; 8/9/15, 10:08 PM
MAJMike said...: Rather common at Starbucks.; 8/9/15, 10:12 PM
CWJ said...: "I wonder if "back-up dancer for eight-year-old girl" is something they put on their resumes."

Sure they do. After all, somebody has the entry:

2015 - Portrayed Left Shark during Super Bowl Half Time.; 8/9/15, 10:13 PM
walter said...: BTW, "Woofs", the err..alternative watering hole, may be the longest lasting business at that address. Was a revolving door for many years..finally found its niche.
Dunno..are there "Dogs" similar to "Bears"?; 8/9/15, 11:32 PM
James Pawlak said...: I would love the smell of Napalm in the morning.; 8/10/15, 1:14 AM
Rusty said...: Isn't there one of those every week in Madison?; 8/10/15, 5:51 AM
sinz52 said...: Humperdink said: "Yep, throw your sexuality in my face (and others) again and again and again. That'll win us over."

Well, it worked for the Duggars, didn't it?

You don't think Mama Duggar had 19 kids by artificial insemination, do you?; 8/10/15, 5:57 AM
Humperdink said...: Who?; 8/10/15, 6:43 AM
Rusty said...: I wonder what the middle class pride parade would look like?
Buncha middle aged men waddling along.
Holding up banners and flags an shit.
Oh. Yeah.
It's called Veterans Day.
Much better parade.; 8/10/15, 6:55 AM
damikesc said...: Does the concept that we don't give a shit what they do in the bedroom completely miss them?; 8/10/15, 6:59 AM
Curious George said...: Hey was that justice fora day JoAnne "I won" Kloppenberg at :05? I think it was. Same "Deer in the headlight" stare. I'm guessing she got lost and decided to follow the shiny things.; 8/10/15, 7:01 AM
Chuck said...: Professor Althouse, having lived briefly in your lovely neighborhood myself, I happen to know that for you to "walk down to State Street for a cup of coffee," you'd have had to bypass three or four other pretty wonderful coffee shops.

Are you being coy about why you walked at least two miles, the better part of an hour, to the scene of the Gay Pride Parade at the very moment it was starting?; 8/10/15, 7:31 AM
MadisonMan said...: Curious George, yes. I think she's running again?; 8/10/15, 8:00 AM
Todd said...: Is that still a thing? I thought "gay pride" parades went out of style sometime before SSM became law. How retro...; 8/10/15, 8:07 AM
Curious George said...: "MadisonMan said...
Curious George, yes. I think she's running again?"

Ah, Crooks spot.

This little bit of video ought to give any sane person pause https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNpKvwQeJM; 8/10/15, 8:11 AM
Scott said...: Boy, post a picture of a gay pride parade, and look at how many ugly bigoted remarks follow.; 8/10/15, 8:40 AM
Crimso said...: "Who doesn't love a parade!"

Skokie?; 8/10/15, 8:43 AM
Humperdink said...: Commenting on in your face sin = hate, right Scott?; 8/10/15, 8:45 AM
Scott said...: You wouldn't tell that to my face if we were waiting at a bus stop together. Most Christians I know aren't that judgmental and snotty to strangers.; 8/10/15, 8:58 AM
Humperdink said...: Scott, you're beginning to sound like Geraldo. Thanks for the threat. The best part of debating liberals is they don't.

Sin is sin. That's not me talking: Leviticus 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act;

1 Corinthians 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

Please note homosexuality is not the only sin referenced here.; 8/10/15, 9:13 AM
Nichevo said...: I don't think that was a threat. I think it's more that he thinks people/you are either too kind or too timid to accost a total stranger, let alone someone you know, and harshly tell him his faults. (One unasked question is how you know he's gay.); 8/10/15, 10:53 AM
walter said...: Uh oh, Woofs.
Gay bars as inverse barometer of tolerance:
http://news.yahoo.com/london-gay-bars-wilt-tolerance-blooms-property-booms-043233690.html

"Gay bars, as they are now, are doomed. Speaking for myself, I feel just as comfortable going to a gay-friendly bar as a traditional gay bar," said Fernando Formoso

It's as if allowing equal opportunity negates need for affirmative actions....; 8/10/15, 3:18 PM
Rusty said...: damikesc said...
Does the concept that we don't give a shit what they do in the bedroom completely miss them?

Apparently.; 8/11/15, 8:14 AM
Rusty said...: Scott said...
Boy, post a picture of a gay pride parade, and look at how many ugly bigoted remarks follow.

Who you callin' 'boy', asshole?; 8/11/15, 8:15 AM