Big Gay Al’s Big Gay March
There are many in the gay community who are neither left wing nor progressives. And there are many that are. And like Big Gay Al, there are many that just want to be left alone with their animals.
That’s cool.
But the problem – at least from this heterosexuals standpoint – is that the visible leadership of the gay community (and the community’s most outwardly visible members) are largely seen as being in lock step with the looney left.
Case in point. I had no idea there was a massive march going on this weekend in DC and so I decided to take my 7 year old and my 2 1/2 year old to the Air and Space Museum (really, is there any place cooler than a building full of fighter planes and rocket ships???). It was a heck of a crowd, while not as big as the Tea Party protest, the march was pretty impressive and had maybe 75% of the people the tea part did. For a single issue, that impacts 10% of the population, thats astounding and very impressive.
My office is basically at the Corner of 1st and Constitution. We parked in my garage and began walking over – sometime around 3:30pm.
As a father of two young children, I was shocked as I made it to the reflecting pool that the speaker started saying Fuck This and Fuck That and Fuck Fuck Fuck. I heard the F Bomb dropped no less than 7 times in the course of 2 or 3 minutes – at which point I stopped crossing the mall and decided to get as far away as possible. Mature, married people with children don’t haphazardly – especially over a loudspeaker – drop the F bomb repeatedly while within earshot of lots of children on the mall. It was very disheartening to hear (I’m not a prude – I’ve got a filthy mouth, just not in front of kids).
This though paled in comparison to the speaker I heard as we walked back (about 5:15 pm) who was shouting about standing arm in arm with the fellow members of the progressive cause. She then spent about 5 minutes reciting every fruity left wing group out there – from ANSWER and MOVE ON to La Cosa something or other, the labor movement, Cesear Chavez and the farm workers, the environmentalist movement, PETA and the animal rights movement, the anti war movement, the hippy movement, the peace movement, etc etc etc. She capped it off by singing the praises of the NAACP (which ironically, last time I checked, represented a membership that is far far far more hostile to gay rights than any other group in America).
In any case, it was very disturbing because it painted – to any one who heard it for just the 5 minutes I was on the mall – the gay community as being nothing more than toady liberals for the Democratic party.
This is a major gay problem. I don’t know who organized the march – but the organizers should have done (based only on the two examples I heard) a much better job of ensuring the speakers stayed on a non partisan, family friendly message. That’s what its about, right?? Gays could be normal just like you and me and make fine parents and have as stable (or more stable) relationships as anyone else. Yet to non gays who didn’t attend the rally but just overheard a few minutes of the speakers while enjoying a gorgeous day on the mall – that wasn’t the message projected.
What I was left with was the clear impression that GAY = Vulgar Foul Mouthed Angry Left Wing Crack Pot Lefty Democrat partisan kooks. Which was very disappointing.
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I don’t think they can help themselves. When they see a microphone the Lefty-magnetic alignment seizes them and the standard Liberal vocabulary takes over and comes out. Or maybe they were all from San Francisco.
Comment by DirtCrashr — October 15, 2009 @ 10:45 am
I’m not sure it’s so much ‘hey we’re normal’ as ‘give us our fucking civil rights’. Perhaps they were vulgar, but I can’t blame them for it.
Also, have you been to the Udvar-Hazy annex thing? That’s even cooler than the main Air and Space museum.
Comment by Phoronus — October 15, 2009 @ 11:36 am
I don blame them for being mad. And if it’s folks in the audience cursing, that’s fine. But the speakers shouldn’t be. It doesn’t advance the cause – and stands a greater chance of making them an easily dismissed/ignores group.
As for Udar Hazy, yes. Been there dozens of times. Had an annual parking pass when it first opened. Was actually there the weekend before.
As to which is better – udvar hazy is great cause it’s got all the cool planes. But the maim branch has much more in the way of info and opprtunity for learning.
Comment by Countertop — October 15, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
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I never visited the Mall without checking if a Gay Pride march was on. These Gays love to march and use vulgar dress and language to shock and intimidate straights. It is not a demand to accept their sexuality but a bullying show that their sexuality is better. So they deliberately demean family values since that is an outcome of hetero sex practices.
Homosexual sex does procreate without artificial help
Male homosexuals call mother breeders is a very sneering tone.
No confrontational gays tend to like their more confrontational brethren because they feel more empowereed with bullies protecting them.
The Tea Parties and OC marchs are much more respectful and polite than the Gay Marches.
Mostly people ignore these marches by gays who try shock tactics to get attention.
OC at town meetings and council meetings are not the same at all, despite Sebastian’s fears.
Comment by RAH — October 16, 2009 @ 9:10 am
Oop, I meant homosexuals do not procreate without artificial help.
Comment by RAH — October 16, 2009 @ 9:11 am
The foul language is a reflection of lack of coherent thought. My father was a Merchant Marine in WWII, and while I am sure he heard and likely used enough foul language in those years to put any of these speakers to shame, I never heard one four letter word pass his lips.
He did once tell me, as an analogy about making an important decision, to check the wind direction before jumping off one side or the other of a torpedoed oil tanker, as the burning slick would spread downwind. Something to remember, indeed.
Comment by Mikee — October 16, 2009 @ 9:59 am
On a barely related note, did you know that they have a satellite museum, connected to the Air & Space Museum, out near Dulles Airport.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/
It’s basically an enormous hangar, which includes the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Comment by Laughingdog — October 18, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Gah. Posted the comment after your post, but before reading the other comments.
Comment by Laughingdog — October 18, 2009 @ 11:59 pm
cooler even than the space shuttle (or the Enola Gay) is the SR-71 Blackbird
Comment by Countertop — October 19, 2009 @ 3:40 pm