Gay Marches

[the real slim shady]

The following quote is from the 'Last one to post wins... GAME' thread.

people should calm down and take care of their own lifes and let the others in peace.

So, why do they march the streets saying "I`m gay!!!"?

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...Im proud of being straight. I dont march around telling people.
They are gay and proud of it. They dont need to march around telling everybody about it.

To me, it makes no difference if someone is gay or not, however i feel that it is strange that gay people do all the marches and stuff, it will just attract attention to them... nothing good will happen because it, if anything happens therefore it wil be a negative reaction.

Lets say we were at an athletic event, and i won gold in the 100m race. There is a room full of people that won gold medals in other races or events. I go into the room, and i tell everyone that i got gold in the 100m. They dont really give a shit, its something to do with me, its something im proud of but its not something i need to go up and tell all of them. A gay pride march is the same thing. They are going and telling everyone that they are gay... Great, so what? how does it affect me? Why do you feel the need to tell me something like that? I can understand that it might make them feel better being able to tell people that, as before they came out as being gay it might have been difficult to keep it secret, so maybe they feel good for saying it, but that doesnt mean everyone has to know. I dont walk into a room full of gay people and tell them im straight*, so they dont need to do the same to me.

*If i did do that, coincidentally, i would get in trouble and i would be called homophobic or something, regardless of my intetions or reasons for saying it. Does that seem fair.... no. So if the whole homosexuality issue is about equality for people, lets make it equal and just be who we are, without having to tell everyone. Which leads onto emma's point:

people should calm down and take care of their own lifes and let the others in peace.

We all should, but having a march and forcing everyone to listen to you about your sexuality isnt a way of doing that.
If you think about it.

Im curious now, what do the rest of you guys think of gay marches? i dont find it offensive or anything, but the general idea from that quote ^ is that i find it unnecessary, verging on annoying. I dont have a problem with gay people (despite being an em fan, most people seem to think that is impossible but most of us here are evidence to the contrary), however i find the 'in-your-face' (not literally) attitude of homosexual people to be unnecessary.

Ideas/Opinions?

[limea]

...Im proud of being straight. I dont march around telling people.
They are gay and proud of it. They dont need to march around telling everybody about it.

You don't "march around telling people" because you don't have to, people automatically assume you're straight because a majority of people are.

To me, it makes no difference if someone is gay or not, however i feel that it is strange that gay people do all the marches and stuff, it will just attract attention to them... nothing good will happen because it, if anything happens therefore it wil be a negative reaction.

Gay pride parades can raise awareness to gay rights issues. That's positive.

Lets say we were at an athletic event, and i won gold in the 100m race. There is a room full of people that won gold medals in other races or events. I go into the room, and i tell everyone that i got gold in the 100m. They dont really give a shit, its something to do with me, its something im proud of but its not something i need to go up and tell all of them. A gay pride march is the same thing. They are going and telling everyone that they are gay... Great, so what? how does it affect me? Why do you feel the need to tell me something like that?Main reason I can understand that it might make them feel better being able to tell people that, as before they came out as being gay it might have been difficult to keep it secret, so maybe they feel good for saying it, but that doesnt mean everyone has to know. I dont walk into a room full of gay people and tell them im straight*, so they dont need to do the same to me

It's not all about just saying "hey guys, I'm gay", it's a parade, so the purpose is to raise awareness to gay rights issues while in turn being a time in which members of the LGBT community can have fun, dance, see floats and converse without fear of homophobic people.

*If i did do that, coincidentally, i would get in trouble and i would be called homophobic or something, regardless of my intetions or reasons for saying it.

If someone says you're homophobic when you're not, just defend yourself. Simple as that.

We all should, but having a march and forcing everyone to listen to you about your sexuality isnt a way of doing that.
If you think about it.

No one "forces" you to watch gay parades.

I find it gross, why the fuck would I want to see a bunch of people making out and push it in my face.

But they're not in your face, because you don't attend them.

[the real slim shady]

See, i want to argue my point but my OP kinda says all the stuff i need to say, so no.

[EG.]

Men feel so threatened by gays, its funny

[BigBoss]

Honestly I don't care for gays, if they wanna do that them ok that's cool and all, just don't fuckibg flaunt it around. I don't need to know you're gay, if you wanna hold your bf's hand in front of me or kiss him, cool but don't make a big deal out of it.


Untill gay marriage is legalized people will continue to use the bible as their weapon towards gay marriage, except the bible itself is a complete fucked up set of rules. That's why atheism is the best way, in my opinion.

[the real slim shady]

Men feel so threatened by gays, its funny

thats an interesting assumption

[CrashBand]

lol at Hage. Your ignorance on the topic amuses me. Your scenario is fucking irrelevant if being gay isn't the problem. But if being gay is the problem (which is likely the case seeing as you seem like a homophobic idiot) than those sort of opinions warrant the need for gay marches. What if black people felt like they couldn't do things in public because of discrimination. (which is still the case in many places I just feel discrimination towards gay people is far worse in the current time we live in)

@ the OP. I find it necessary, as I said being gay is severely discriminated against.

And as limea said, it raises awareness about this and about gay rights issues. If any single person is being oppressed for bullshit, deluded reasons then morally we should do things about this. Gay rights marches are a way of combating the discrimination towards gay people. It's not that hard to figure out the reason for them.

Then again, you guys may have a point, if I could go back in time I would probably tell Martin Luther-King (politely of course) that although I'm all good with him I find his marches and speeches unnecessary and fucking annoying. I'm not telling everyone I'm white so could he go bothering us by telling us he's black.

Not that I'm a racist or anything

[AbramIsaac]

Fuck you @limea and @Crashband.

Limea said everything I was going to, and as soon as I thought about the black civil rights march comparison, I see the Bandicoot already said it.

[CrashBand]

lol. I already said if being gay isn't the problem then it is an irrelevant scenario.

@ you being a homophobe. Yeah my bad I was just assuming there. I still reckon you most likely are a homophobe who is waiting to come out of the closet seeing as you have this deep fear of gay people plotting together to 'bother' you.

But yeah, my bad for assuming.

[BigBoss]

Hage isn't being homophobic. lol.

[CrashBand]

Debatable. But yeah okay for sake of argument, I just assumed he probably is a homophobe.

I'll just wait for that Elton John performance eh?

[Kill You]

I actually kinda agree with you that gays shouldn't march around announcing their gay...of course I don't really have a problem with it either. I kinda understand why they're marching so as long as they're just doing marches that's fine. But walking into a room full of people announcing or acting like you're gay and shit like that...I think it's just for attention. I don't see why gay men and women feel the need to act like the other gender as well, while we're on the subject...I think it would be far more accepted if gay people acted normal...gay men kind of annoy me when they act like girls lol.

I'm not a homophobe or anything it's just that shit gets on my nerves and I can see why people wouldn't like gay people for it.

[UofLCard]

Straight people don't get persecuted like gay people (and I might as well include women and minorities). You're going to have difficulties if you're not a white, straight male in some parts of the world. Because of these facts, minority group feel the need to speak out.

This is coming from a white, straight female if it makes any difference.

[the real slim shady]

it does make a difference, i honestly didnt know you werent a guy
I understand that, but it is considered homophobic if you disagree with them doing the marches... they get persecuted for things but so does everyone else now.

[Guess_Who]

@Crashband, @limea I totally agree with you both.

I said my point of view in the other thread, but anyway.

Gay marches have sense, because gays have been discriminated for a long time,and still are. And the gay march is also a way to claim their rights, like gay marriage, what do you guys think about gay marriage?

If people let them do their march, it will not be a big deal. But often there are homophobic people trying to stop them and things end badly.


People complain because they stop the traffic and all that, and yeah maybe they should do it in a way It didn't affect the rest of the people. But how many retarded parties and local celebrations stop the traffic too and noone complains.