NYC Pride March

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

20 hours ago, José Soplanucas said:

Please, forgive me. Have sympathy. I did not have the privilege of Superior White Parenting.

Yikes!  My parents are of mixed ethnic backgrounds, so you could say my parents were just average.  Nonetheless, I tend to avoid pride parades.

 My first pride parade was in Toronto 2015, and it happened to be the weekend I vacationed there.  The parade was okay, but it lost support from the spectators and participants when a group of protestors invited to participate in the parade hijacked the parade and forced it to a standstill for nearly an hour.

My second pride experience was when I happened to be in New York City during pride 2018 and was trying to get to the airport but traffic was at a standstill.

Now, I make sure to know when pride is and travel a week earlier.

Edited June 28, 2023 by Vegas_Millennial

[pubic_assistance]

59 minutes ago, marylander1940 said:

A few misbehaved during the event

It's more than a few..and it's more than innocent partying. Most everyone in my neighborhood dreads the event and wishes it would go away. ( And we are talking about GREENWICH VILLAGE !  ) The birthplace of Stonewall.

[Thelatin]

100% - And I appreciate your support!

 

[+ José Soplanucas]

5 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

The entirety of my comment is that AFTER the parade. All the decent joyful people move uptown to celebrate and we are left with all  the troublemakers / trash.

If you had stayed on the landscape after the parade, your intolerant comments would be more understandable. However, it is not the case.

5 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

am old enough to remember the parade when it was a fun event. We'd go an check out all the cute boys, watch the floats and go to parties.  It's now too big / too political and too full of monsters.  If your "diversity" is about embracing angry, desctructive and lewd behavior, then we are very much different types of people.  Community for me is everyone getting along and respecting each other. That's not what happens here after the parade every year.

You keep mixing it up. You are expressing your disgust for the after-party and the party/protest itself. It looks like you only welcome a parade with cute boys you can enjoy and not too much politics or anything that bothers you. You know, those monsters. Your tolerance is very short-living and short-sighting. 

 

5 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

I stand by my opinion and I will ask that you stop insinuating that I am some racist because I expect people to behave like human beings.

I am glad you stand by your opinion. I never asked you not to speak your mind. Au contraire, mon amour. I also stand by my opinion. I did not insinuate you are a Racist. I am trying to avoid ad-hominems, although I often fail. But I did not fail this time. I explicitly pointed out that you have often shared Racist tropes. That is my opinion, and I stand by it.

You can try to silence me. I will never try to silence you. Feel free to speak your mind about me or my opinions. I will never report you or ask you to stop.

Edited to add:

By the way, I understand some posters' confusion about my reference to White Parenting. It was a snark not directly related to this thread's topic. So I do apologize for that, for bringing an unrelated topic to this thread. I should have known that you would not understand the reference if you were not an active participant in the deceased Politics Forum. I am sorry for that.

Edited June 29, 2023 by José Soplanucas

[marylander1940]

14 hours ago, Xavitv said:

This made me think of  the “is this place a community?” question. After reading this thread I would answer with a “hell, no”. 

My homophobic uncle would be happy to be among some of the fine gentlemen who frequently post in this forum. 

Edited June 29, 2023 by marylander1940
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[+ augustus]

On 6/27/2023 at 4:25 PM, José Soplanucas said:

. I am right now reading a book that you may find interesting: Donde está el peligro. Eséticas de la disidencia sexual (Where the danger is. Esthetics of sexual dissidence).

Sounds interesting...NOT.

[+ augustus]

Anyone see the group of drags in NYC a few days ago chanting "we're queer, we're here and we're coming for your children"?   Weirdos and mentally Ill people making threats against parents regarding their children.  This is not going to end well.

[mike carey]

19 minutes ago, augustus said:

Anyone see the group of drags in NYC a few days ago chanting "we're queer, we're here and we're coming for your children"?   Weirdos and mentally Ill people making threats against parents regarding their children.  This is not going to end well.

It was theatre. Satirising homophobic tropes. Trolling. Pure and simple.

[+ FrankR]

Good lord!  Ya’ll sound like what my father would call “a bunch of old farts bellyaching on the porch”.  

[+ José Soplanucas]

2 hours ago, augustus said:

Sounds interesting...NOT.

Your need to make that comment moved me to tears. Do not worry. I would never recommend to you a reading over your head, Bright One.

You cannot even understand the sarcasm behind We are Queer, We are Here, We come for your Children. 

[+ Italiano]

On 6/26/2023 at 12:41 PM, pubic_assistance said:

Sadly all the attractive people seem to head elsewhere after the parade on Christopher Street.

We arrived home at 10:00pm last night and I have to say I've never seen so many ugly people in one place. The Christopher Street area ( West Village ) was populated by hundreds of the most hideous, obese Lesbians you could imagine. (It's as if they relish in making themselves ugly as possible). It's like a nightmare scene in a horror movie. I feel bad for my children that they have to witness this kind of stuff. It's hard to convince them this is a "Pride" march when you witness so much disrespectful, and frankly disgusting behavior on the streets of your neighborhood. ☹️

I guess next year they should only allow hot muscle gay men and slender lesbians walking through the Village.

[+ José Soplanucas]

4 minutes ago, Italiano said:

I guess next year they should only allow hot muscle gay men and slender lesbians walking through the Village.

And do not forget to clean up afterward! Neighbors are very delicate!

[marylander1940]

2 hours ago, augustus said:

Anyone see the group of drags in NYC a few days ago chanting "we're queer, we're here and we're coming for your children"?   Weirdos and mentally Ill people making threats against parents regarding their children.  This is not going to end well.

It was a joke, they were making fun of stereotypes from the news outlet you follow. Unfortunately some don't get it!

Even in this forum (of all places) some insinuate gay men are groomers....

[pubic_assistance]

23 minutes ago, José Soplanucas said:

And do not forget to clean up afterward! Neighbors are very delicate!

I suppose you would just live with the garbage @José Soplanucassince you're SO intent on the rights of people to misbehave.

[pubic_assistance]

29 minutes ago, Italiano said:

 next year they should only allow hot muscle gay men and slender lesbians walking through the Village

That would be amazing.🎉

 

[pubic_assistance]

3 hours ago, augustus said:

Sounds interesting...NOT.

Definitey not.

100 years of Latin literature calling for Civil disobedience and revolution gets tiresome quickly.

It's always the same result. The revolution "of the people" claims victory and within a year the money people are back in office. They never learn.

The gays are seemingly being lead by the same kind of radicals instead of intellectuals. They mimic the same failed strategies for their social justice movement instead of garnering support from members of legitimate authority and securing their goals. They end up with a lot of placating and slogans and eventual pushback from the people in power.

Edited June 29, 2023 by pubic_assistance
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[marylander1940]

1 hour ago, Italiano said:

I guess next year they should only allow hot muscle gay men and slender lesbians walking through the Village.

 

30 minutes ago, pubic_assistance said:

That would be amazing.🎉

 

Who's going to judge who's hot enough to be shirtless in the parade or not? 

@Thelatin ?

[Luv2play]

1 hour ago, Italiano said:

I guess next year they should only allow hot muscle gay men and slender lesbians walking through the Village.

That's the way it was when I attended parades back in the 90's. 😉

[pubic_assistance]

10 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

That's the way it was when I attended parades back in the 90's. 😉

Well...yeah. I remember sitting on my stoop back in the 90s with some of the neighborhood gays watching all the hot boys walk by. It used to be a fun event.

Now all the hotties head uptown and the monster lesbians take over the Village along with an array of other angry destructive outcasts.

 

Edited June 29, 2023 by pubic_assistance
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[+ José Soplanucas]

1 hour ago, pubic_assistance said:

 

I will report you for posting my picture in public. I do appreciate you picked my best side.

Edited June 29, 2023 by José Soplanucas

[+ José Soplanucas]

I loooove this picture.

[marylander1940]

No cult of victimhood comment yet...

[+ augustus]

On 6/28/2023 at 1:32 PM, SouthOfTheBorder said:

if you want to have sex with others watching or you watching others - go to a sex club or other appropriate venue: not in a public street for a "parade"

don't get confused that somehow pride opens the door for whatever (sex) you want to do in public spaces just because you just want to do it 

Exactly.  Wearing a preference on the sleeve and making it the end all and do all of existence is a shallow existence. Of course, there's anxiety, sadness and fear.  

[Luv2play]

Maybe some gays have confused Pride parades with the SF Folsom St. Fair.