9 ઑગસ્ટ, 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 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

rhhardin કહ્યું...

It puts the mad in madison.

Humperdink કહ્યું...

Yep, throw your sexuality in my face (and others) again and again and again. That'll win us over.

Michael K કહ્યું...

Were there assless chaps ? How can it be gay pride without assless chaps ?

Bay Area Guy કહ્યું...

Who cares? Every day is a gay pride parade in San Francisco.

Laslo Spatula કહ્યું...

Whenever women touched anything did they clearly make it better than we do as guys?


I am Laslo.

Laslo Spatula કહ્યું...

PFLAG, by Initials, noticeably discludes Transvestites and Transgender.

Narrow-minded grandmas.


I am Laslo.

Fernandinande કહ્યું...

Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years

lgv કહ્યું...

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.

Bob R કહ્યું...

Tired of pride parades. Call me for the gluttony and sloth parades. (Yes, it's a stolen joke.)

JZ કહ્યું...

Gay seems like the wrong word to me. I suggest Alternative Lifestyle.

Bob R કહ્યું...

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.

CarlF કહ્યું...

Cannot believe how closed-minded PFLAG is by only referring to lesbians and gays.

Quaestor કહ્યું...

Pride goeth before a fall, as they say.

Quaestor કહ્યું...

Thanks, Fernandinande! Almost fell out of my chair.

David કહ્યું...

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.

Renee કહ્યું...

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.

Renee કહ્યું...

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

retail lawyer કહ્યું...

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.

MadisonMan કહ્યું...

What a bunch of mean-spirited commenters.

Who doesn't love a parade! (I wouldn't have taken a dog though -- kinda humid today)

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

A bunch of pedophiles and sexual deviants holding a parade to celebrate their sin. What could go wrong?

dwick કહ્યું...

CONGRATULATIONS! So what are you going to do for an encore?

Horseball કહ્યું...

passé

Unknown કહ્યું...

It used to be called the love that dare not say its name.
Now it's the love that won't shut up.

walter કહ્યું...

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.

CWJ કહ્યું...

Why today?

walter કહ્યું...

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?

SeanF કહ્યું...

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.

walter કહ્યું...
આ ટિપ્પણી લેખક દ્વારા દૂર કરવામાં આવી છે.
walter કહ્યું...

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...

William કહ્યું...

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.

Valentine Smith કહ્યું...

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.

MAJMike કહ્યું...

Rather common at Starbucks.

CWJ કહ્યું...

"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.

walter કહ્યું...

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"?

James Pawlak કહ્યું...

I would love the smell of Napalm in the morning.

Rusty કહ્યું...

Isn't there one of those every week in Madison?

sinz52 કહ્યું...

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?

Humperdink કહ્યું...

Who?

Rusty કહ્યું...

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.

damikesc કહ્યું...

Does the concept that we don't give a shit what they do in the bedroom completely miss them?

Curious George કહ્યું...

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.

Chuck કહ્યું...

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?

MadisonMan કહ્યું...

Curious George, yes. I think she's running again?

Todd કહ્યું...

Is that still a thing? I thought "gay pride" parades went out of style sometime before SSM became law. How retro...

Curious George કહ્યું...

"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




Scott કહ્યું...

Boy, post a picture of a gay pride parade, and look at how many ugly bigoted remarks follow.

Crimso કહ્યું...

"Who doesn't love a parade!"

Skokie?

Humperdink કહ્યું...

Commenting on in your face sin = hate, right Scott?

Scott કહ્યું...

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.

Humperdink કહ્યું...

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.

Nichevo કહ્યું...

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.)

walter કહ્યું...

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....

Rusty કહ્યું...

damikesc said...
Does the concept that we don't give a shit what they do in the bedroom completely miss them?


Apparently.

Rusty કહ્યું...

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?

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