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Gay Pride 2011 - Page 2

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gds
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Iceland1391 Posts
March 07 2011 01:29 GMT
#21
As much as i agree with almost everything here about gay people rights, i dont see how showing your anus to the crowd while dancing half naked on a float will convince narrow minded people to respect your sexuality.
In fact, i'm sure it does the opposite.
Souma
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
March 07 2011 01:30 GMT
#22
This is amazing. Thanks.
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Fumi
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
529 Posts
March 07 2011 01:52 GMT
#23
Amazing blog, OP, great thing to wake up to! Also, amazing TL sign.
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Kerotan
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
England2111 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 02:22:35
March 07 2011 02:19 GMT
#24
I love this blog so much, but you know the first thing I noticed was how much sky there is South Africa, and its so blue! and do you seriously not have a single cloud in the whole of the country?

In all seriousness, I love your TL pony banner, your pictures are lovely and this is fine example of how to post good blogs.

-edit post 1111!
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Hitokiri
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Spain306 Posts
March 07 2011 07:15 GMT
#25
On March 07 2011 11:19 Kerotan wrote:
I love this blog so much, but you know the first thing I noticed was how much sky there is South Africa, and its so blue! and do you seriously not have a single cloud in the whole of the country?

In all seriousness, I love your TL pony banner, your pictures are lovely and this is fine example of how to post good blogs.

-edit post 1111!


How much sky? Ahaha I kinda laughed at that statement. Don't mind me.

Anyways, always good to see people embracing reality and enjoying themselves.
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fabulously
Profile Joined November 2010
Norway724 Posts
March 07 2011 08:35 GMT
#26
Great blog. One of the best I have seen in a while Thanks for sharing!
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Stereotype
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States136 Posts
March 07 2011 10:25 GMT
#27
Great read & *LOVE* the pictures! Reminds me of when I used to live in a place that wasn't in the middle of nowhere, and I didn't have to drive 3 hours to participate in any decently sized pride celebration! ><
Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. -- John Lennon
gronnelg
Profile Joined December 2010
Norway354 Posts
March 07 2011 14:24 GMT
#28
Yay! Go gays! Go Kyle! :D
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Bortlett
Profile Joined October 2010
United States302 Posts
March 07 2011 23:48 GMT
#29
Wow you are hot :o. Wish I lived in South Africa.

That aside, very eloquent explanation of what gay pride means. Haven't been to one myself, hopefully I will go soon .
jarrydesque
Profile Joined November 2010
584 Posts
March 08 2011 07:06 GMT
#30
Thank you so much for the responses guys - I hope that everyone took something away from it and enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

As for the banner - I wish that I could claim it was my idea, but it was my boyfriends. He's the artistic one - just grabbed some card and oil paints and banged it together in no time. I was as impressed I assure you xD.

Arctic - Don't stay in there too long! It's not worth it!

hifriend - That banner is crazy awesome xD

garbanzo - You're right - I didn't mention it in the OP because I didn't want to complicate anything, but basically the float that I walked with was the company that I work for and it focuses heavily on conservation - specifically anti rhino poaching. The pride "theme" was "Celebrate our Diversity" and my boss decided that it should be "Celebrate our Biodiversity" so he added in the whole rhino motif.

Kerotan - Haha, well, it was an amazing day in Cape Town last Saturday - we're still in Summer here so it was really hot. All the poor trannies had to keep reapplying their makeup.

Feel free to share this anywhere you can! Spread the word! Spread the love!
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HuK
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1591 Posts
March 09 2011 16:08 GMT
#31
really good post and im a huge supporter of gay pride among other things so all the power to you.



ps: wat a sick poster ! ^.^;;
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Ayush_SCtoss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
India3051 Posts
March 09 2011 16:12 GMT
#32
Great blog! Enjoyed reading through it. I am a supporter of gay rights/prides etc so best of luck to you. And I like that poster. Is awesome.
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wingweaver415
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States66 Posts
March 09 2011 18:08 GMT
#33
Thanks! That was really encouraging and motivational!

That poster rocks....
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Masamune
Profile Joined January 2007
Canada3401 Posts
March 09 2011 18:53 GMT
#34
Great blog and great message! That poster is amazing!!

6/5 stars!!!
Mora
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada5235 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-19 22:19:48
March 19 2011 22:19 GMT
#35
Fantastic blog!

I loved it!

edit - i loved your poster!
Happiness only real when shared.
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
March 20 2011 01:11 GMT
#36
Yet another parade of hedonism and bad manners posing as a positive ideal. I should not be one to criticize, as I have been an International Student for several years past, a category of people not much more progressed in moral sanitation than gay paraders.

Of course every person today is silently conscious about the social benefits of membership to a purportedly persecuted minority, a status which amounts to knee-jerk sympathy and acclamation among all respectable society. What is so peculiar about gay pride is that its very medium, in substance not much more than a generic variation of your common nauseating platitudes about equality and tolerance, is badly suited to the category.

No normal person is proud of his sexuality. This is so whether he is an immaculate virgin, or a foot-sniffing pedophile, and for obvious reasons. Sex as a mere compulsive appetite is lonely, humiliating and dull. It is only through the sense of shame we feel about it that it has any constructive emotional purpose. That purpose is the potential of intimacy by the mutual exchange of vulnerability between two people, and any public campaign which purports to celebrate any kind of sexuality is not only false but degrading. People who propagate such slogans I will grant usually believe what they are saying, but they don't know what they are saying.

As abhorrent as "Black", "Asian" or "Feminist" pride is, at least in each case, you can at least build a positive case for each of these movements. There are unquestionably certain things that black people can do better than whites, or women can do better than men. What staple of civilization can be particularly attributed to homosexuals, I shall leave the better-informed to determine.

Behind every honest cause, there are a thousand opportunists. Behind every dishonest cause also. Would jarrydesque have fought for the cause of "gay pride" in a society in which such sentiments would have brought odium, infamy and ostracism upon himself? Of course not. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his courage equals his posture. In such an environment, he would at best assume the guise of an old-fashioned liberal; fighting for the idea that it's no man's business to mind his neighbour's.

In an intellectually challenging environment, he would actually be obliged to have well-considered arguments.
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
March 20 2011 01:21 GMT
#37
P.S. I recall marching in a gay pride parade back when I was 10 or so, when I didn't understand what gay pride was. I do recall one fellow I chatted with, whose range of conversation seemed limited to variations of a single sentence:

"I don't want you to agree with what I am, I want you to respect it."

It's was difficult for a any person, even my ten-year old self to take such slogans seriously, but most people received it well. I suppose it's a kind of catechism for all who understand whatever that's supposed to mean.
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
March 20 2011 01:48 GMT
#38
Yes, I know, it's not about sexuality, it's about equality of rights. It's not a call to convert me to your lifestyle, but a call for your lifestyle to be tolerated. Who cares. I could play the persecution card as well as anyone, as I am sure I have as many native and acquired abnormalities intolerable to the public. All I would have to do is give up any sense of honour, duty, self-restraint, knowing the limitations of my behaviour, or looking to myself to improve my circumstances. As I said, who cares. It may be as virtuous to suffer in silence, but it doesn't make you as popular.
matjlav
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany2435 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-20 03:16:44
March 20 2011 03:14 GMT
#39
On March 20 2011 10:11 MoltkeWarding wrote:
Yet another parade of hedonism and bad manners posing as a positive ideal. I should not be one to criticize, as I have been an International Student for several years past, a category of people not much more progressed in moral sanitation than gay paraders.

Of course every person today is silently conscious about the social benefits of membership to a purportedly persecuted minority, a status which amounts to knee-jerk sympathy and acclamation among all respectable society. What is so peculiar about gay pride is that its very medium, in substance not much more than a generic variation of your common nauseating platitudes about equality and tolerance, is badly suited to the category.

No normal person is proud of his sexuality. This is so whether he is an immaculate virgin, or a foot-sniffing pedophile, and for obvious reasons. Sex as a mere compulsive appetite is lonely, humiliating and dull. It is only through the sense of shame we feel about it that it has any constructive emotional purpose. That purpose is the potential of intimacy by the mutual exchange of vulnerability between two people, and any public campaign which purports to celebrate any kind of sexuality is not only false but degrading. People who propagate such slogans I will grant usually believe what they are saying, but they don't know what they are saying.


? Because you think of sex and desires as an evil, shameful thing, that must mean that everyone else that disagrees is lying to themselves? Lol.

On March 20 2011 10:11 MoltkeWarding wrote:
As abhorrent as "Black", "Asian" or "Feminist" pride is, at least in each case, you can at least build a positive case for each of these movements. There are unquestionably certain things that black people can do better than whites, or women can do better than men. What staple of civilization can be particularly attributed to homosexuals, I shall leave the better-informed to determine.


Uhh, what's your point? Because homosexuals are not inherently superior to heterosexuals in any way, they shouldn't have pride in who they are?

I think you misunderstand "pride" movements. "Pride" in this context (at least per my interpretation) does not mean that you consider yourself superior to others; it just means that you have the pride in yourself as a human being that everyone should have.

The rest of your posts don't make much sense at all so I'll just leave you to try and better express your opinions. I don't know if English is a second language for you or what, because I simply cannot figure out what your point is.

To be fair though, I do generally find the "half-naked-men-dancing-on-floats" aspects of Gay Pride parades to be pretty stupid. They only reinforce all of the negative stereotypes people have of homosexuals...
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
March 20 2011 04:51 GMT
#40
Why anyone would be surprised that a conservative Christian would view sexuality, in any form, to be something to be ashamed of is beyond me.
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