pride

[seXieleXie]

it's that time of year again. what are you going to do? parades? parties? bars?

do you like pride celebrations or do you think they give gay people a bad image?

how many of you know what event pride celebrations commemorate? (hint: i mentioned it in another thread on this forum)






i'm not sure if i'm going to go this year. i'm in a city that i don't know very well. i only really know 2 people and they're both straight. my guy friend proports not to be homophobic (and he does have some queer friends other than me) but says he finds flamboyant gay men "annoying," and uber-butch women "scary". i really don't want to take him with me to any prode events, but at the same time i would feel like a loser if i went alone.

oh well, i have some time to decide yet.

 

[Queersetti]

it's that time of year again. what are you going to do? parades? parties? bars?

do you like pride celebrations or do you think they give gay people a bad image?

how many of you know what event pride celebrations commemorate? (hint: i mentioned it in another thread on this forum)






i'm not sure if i'm going to go this year. i'm in a city that i don't know very well. i only really know 2 people and they're both straight. my guy friend proports not to be homophobic (and he does have some queer friends other than me) but says he finds flamboyant gay men "annoying," and uber-butch women "scary". i really don't want to take him with me to any prode events, but at the same time i would feel like a loser if i went alone.

oh well, i have some time to decide yet.

I went to the festival for a while in the afternoon, and then to the bar that night, which proved to be, shall we say, fortuitous.

I am all for such events, but I do think we ought to try not to alienate people. There were complaints here (Portland Me.) in the past about music being too loud and that sort of thing, and I am happy to see that the organizers have gone out of their way to address complaints.

I know that the origin of Pride is in commemorating the Stonewall incident, let's see who can tell us a little more about that!

Lexie, I think you ought to go. It's a little silly to complain that you don't know anyone in town and then not go to the single event that has the greatest potential for you to make new friends, isn't it? Don't worry about going alone, people will be friendly and you'll be part of the gang in no time.

 

[lavender]

I can get you hooked up, through a friend, with a group of bisexual and lesbian women in the area if you like.

 

[seXieleXie]

i guess it is silly. i have a hard time meeting new people because i'm so shy. but you're right setti, it is a good place to meet people.



lavy: what kinda group?

 

[lavender]

i guess it is silly. i have a hard time meeting new people because i'm so shy. but you're right setti, it is a good place to meet people.



lavy: what kinda group?

One of my best friends went to a women's college there. Most of her friends are still in that area. I've met quite a few of them - they're cool. She's not there anymore, but everyone else is.

 

[glamorilla]

for the most part i maintain the same attitude as i did last year~i am feeling a little ore party oriented these days but i still want to focus on work and keeping the job i got over anything else.

I think itsjust as important supporting the homo friendly and run businesses in your communit year round.

 

[sexy-girl]

i've never been to a gay bar or a pride event

won't be this year either


part of it is because i don't feel i have anything to contribute and also that i was lucky enough to meet my gf about the right time that i was needing to reach out ... so we've been each others support


but she has told me that toronto have some very good pride events

 

[Netzach]

We shall go and I shall smile at all the happily coupled women. *sigh* while my fiance gets picked up, without a doubt, the bitch.

I went to the YW for a year on end, he went to the YM for two minutes and wound up with a very nice older closeted gent. I let them borrow my apartment. Life is so unfair. I digress.

Yes I will be going! Miss the chance to carry a giant leather flag and therefore make some corporate rainbow people from amex wish we'd disappear? Miss my chance to hear people hollering and catcalling and yelling "women in leather" as I go down the ave? (it does wonders for a girl's self esteem once a year, trust me)

I don't feel like an SUV and a good job and a lot of money is arriving. There, we whipped homophobia, someone's after my market share. The more commercial pride gets the more I wanna go. Don't worry, I don't feel the need to bare my tits or dress up like a nun or something...but I do show up, I do show up in leathers, and I do resent the propensity of travel agencies cellular companies credit cards etc. that are NOT gay owned or run, to be there trying to make me feel good out of the kindness of their hearts. Right.

 

[Etoile]

I keep missing it, to my dismay. Various things come up in June and I can't go. I went to Youth Pride some years back, and had a blast even though I'd just broken up with my girlfriend. I was sitting outside the dance crying and this nice gay boy came up to give me a hug, he ended up going with me to buy groceries, helping me carry them home, and trying on my French Maid costume! So I do have some good pride memories, even if I never make it. I have been in NYC during June as well, but Daddy lives in Chelsea already so I don't notice much difference!

 

[buggawugga]

i can't believe pride week is finally here! after missing out on last year's events, i will most definitely be checking out the street festivals happening in the village this year... toronto's pride week is notoriously fantastic and for anyone within driving range, this weekend will definitely be worth the trip....

not that they're paying me or anything but the website is here

 

[sexy-girl]

thanks for the toronto link

 

[Never]

I don't have gay pride. What's there to be proud of?

 

[seXieleXie]

I don't have gay pride. What's there to be proud of?

*shrug*
people are proud of their nationality, why can't queers be proud of their orientation?

 

[Never]

I don't go to Fourth of July parades either.

Did I say that queers can't be proud of their orientation? I'm just saying that I don't feel a great sense of accomplishment when contemplating my desire to go down on a woman.

 

[sexy-girl]

i must admit that i've never really felt any pride or that i was part of a big community

thats partly why i woudln't mind going once to something to do with gay pride ... but im worried i'd feel like i didn't really belong there or something

 

[MzChrista]

i must admit that i've never really felt any pride or that i was part of a big community

thats partly why i woudln't mind going once to something to do with gay pride ... but im worried i'd feel like i didn't really belong there or something

I dont know why you would feel like that. You see all kinds of people there and everyone is cool to each othere, at least at ones I been to.

We had a little trouble here cause the gay boys were line dancing down the side streets and pissed some of the neighbors off.

 

[Queersetti]

I dont know why you would feel like that. You see all kinds of people there and everyone is cool to each othere, at least at ones I been to.

We had a little trouble here cause the gay boys were line dancing down the side streets and pissed some of the neighbors off.

Well, when the rhythm gets a hold of you, what are you going to do?

 

[seXieleXie]

two can play at this game

Did I say that queers can't be proud of their orientation? I'm just saying that I don't feel a great sense of accomplishment when contemplating my desire to go down on a woman.

did i ever say that you said that it wasn't okay to be proud of.... oh whatever, you know what i mean.


i just like the idea that i can go to a dyke march and be around several thousand lesbians. i find something about that really empowering. *shrug*

 

[buggawugga]

it's the pride of liberating yourself against the pitted judgement of the world.

the pride of living freely despite the mocking glares and wide-eyed intolerance rampant in our society

the pride of fighting the fight to be treated like a human being regardless of sexual orientation.

the pride of knowing you're a better person because you were able to accept yourself when everything else in the world tells you that you're wrong.

the pride of having the strength of character to realize that who you are attracted to has nothing to do with your moral character

i could go on, and i might. but not now. that is all.

 

[buggawugga]

and if for no other reason than to say "I'M A FUCKING HOMOSEXUAL!!" be proud to say this with others who aren't ashamed

<insert lesbian/gay/bisexual/transexual/pansexual/omnisexual/non-labelled sexual orientation description of your choice>

 

[seXieleXie]

fucking homosexuals are my favorite kind of homosexual.

 

[buggawugga]

ahahahaha <3 <3 <3 to ^^^^

 

[Effigy]

Did I say that queers can't be proud of their orientation? I'm just saying that I don't feel a great sense of accomplishment when contemplating my desire to go down on a woman.

no, you should be proud of the achievement and what it brings.

Not that I'd call it gay pride... I'd just call it orgasm pride

 

[sexy-girl]

I dont know why you would feel like that. You see all kinds of people there and everyone is cool to each othere, at least at ones I been to.

i guess for me because i haven't felt an urge to be a part of it if i did try to be a part of it i might feel a little like i was being fasle or fake

i know that doesn't really make sense im not easy to understand

 

[glamorilla]

i think i kinda get it~sometimes i forget how young you are~might be good for you to get out for one day and just enjoy any parades that might be around...get some sun,hold your girlfriends hand and stuff.

i *might* be going to the parade on sunday~