There Will be Blood: Boston's Straight Pride Parade.

[TragicMonkey]

Atlanta (which for some reason has their Pride festival/parade in October) usually has lots of people who aren't gay themselves waving flags. It's a show of support, not trying to co-opt an identity, I think.

Perhaps Atlanta holds its pride parade in October to avoid the heat of summer. I've been in Atlanta in June when it was 102 degrees. Celsius.

 

[Darat]

I didn't think Ghettos were supposed to be cripplingly expensive.

It's a very bijou ghetto.

With no parking.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

The organizers behind Boston’s Straight Pride Parade should concern you
Some of the organizers are close to neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.

Maybe they'll follow Chapman's lead and be too busy dealing with felony charges to follow through on the plan.

 

[halleyscomet]

Gay couple beaten up for refusing to kiss for men’s entertainment

This horrifying picture shows a flight attendant and her girlfriend covered in blood after a gang of men attacked them when they refused to kiss for them. The apparently homophobic attack happened on a London bus as the couple returned home from an evening out last month.

When was the last time a straight couple was beaten and robbed for refusing to make out to entertain strangers?

 

[wareyin]

Perhaps Atlanta holds its pride parade in October to avoid the heat of summer. I've been in Atlanta in June when it was 102 degrees. Celsius.

You have clearly been to Atlanta!
But, if they don't host them while it's hot, how can people purposely go see all the hot, sweaty, provocatively dressed performers in order to have an attack of the vapors?

Of course, it's still in the 80s in October, so nobody is in a parka...

 

[pgwenthold]

Perhaps Atlanta holds its pride parade in October to avoid the heat of summer. I've been in Atlanta in June when it was 102 degrees. Celsius.

It's not the heat, it's the humidity

 

[TragicMonkey]

It's not the heat, it's the humidity

I used to live in Macon. It stops being humidity and counts as underwater once snakes can start swimming in the air.

 

[halleyscomet]

I used to live in Macon. It stops being humidity and counts as underwater once snakes can start swimming in the air.

You talking about reptiles, or televangelists in private jets?

 

[Hellbound]

You talking about reptiles, or televangelists in private jets?

To-may-to, to-mah-to

 

[sadhatter]

I think that's their plan. They WANT to start a riot. That's why they're having it on a day when thousands of college students are moving into their dorms.

And all they have to do is act like reasonable mature adults and the odors don't get what they want.

Has no one read the art of war? Simple stuff really.

 

[IsThisTheLife]

I think that's their plan. They WANT to start a riot. That's why they're having it on a day when thousands of college students are moving into their dorms.

It's diabolical.

 

[dudalb]

No. Pointing and laughing would be better.

Agreed. I don't like the idea of using violence to surpress speech...even that of Alpha Hotels.
Which is why I don't like Antifa very much, they go over the line to try to shut their opponents down.

 

[dudalb]

Please feel free to make that incredibly stupid mistake if you (or the people doing the "handling" you speak of) wish to.

Don't be deterred by the fact that Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to allow gay marriages, without weaselly half measures like "civil unions." That efforts to reverse that step (which was originally a state supreme court action) were opposed by a strong and vocal majority of the population. That the most recent polls on record indicate 75% to 80% support for gay marriage. (Not including the significant percentage of "no opinion" which is support by default, because tolerance doesn't have to mean active approval, just unwillingness to actively oppose.) That a recent statewide ballot initiative to roll back recently established trans rights was rejected by huge margins of the voting public. And that those statewide figures underestimate the level of support for LGBQ+ rights in Boston, which like most large urban centers is considerably more progressive than the state overall.

If you wanted to send the message that these protestors are Nazis and do not enjoy popular support in Boston, then you'd do nothing and let their action, if it happens at all, be pathetically minor and mocked by the Boston general public that happens to be around.

But if you want to send the message that straight people have no right to pride or identity, and that tolerance for different views only flows one way, by all means, "handle" it as you will. Everyone loves a good riot.

Boston: a history of standing up for liberty going back to the 1770's...

 

[Myriad]

Boston: a history of standing up for liberty going back to the 1770's...

Well, it goes back that far, but of course there are some unfortunate gaps in that history too; a decade or two here, a century there...

 

[Travis]

Gay couple beaten up for refusing to kiss for men’s entertainment



When was the last time a straight couple was beaten and robbed for refusing to make out to entertain strangers?

I've heard of guys that harass lesbians in bars trying to get them to make out for their own edification but this is just another step down into the sewer of awful.

 

[cullennz]

Gay couple beaten up for refusing to kiss for men’s entertainment



When was the last time a straight couple was beaten and robbed for refusing to make out to entertain strangers?

When was the last time a gay couple were?

It is a horrible act by a bunch of teenage thugs, but it is extremely rare if you are going by your criteria

 

[Foolmewunz]

When was the last time a gay couple were?

It is a horrible act by a bunch of teenage thugs, but it is extremely rare if you are going by your criteria

How on earth would YOU know what's rare and not rare? Argument from assertion.

Meanwhile, after getting threatened with a lawsuit by Brad Pitt for using his image as the quintessential "straight guy", they've taken on the straightest spokesperson they could locate, Despicable Milo.

Let there be no doubt, this is a trolling operation.

 

[Seismosaurus]

Yer don't say? Duh, I never woulda thunk it. Jeenius!

FFS, that's implicitly understood by everyone who can tie their own shoelaces, has been for decades.

No, it isn't.

What they are (pride marches) is a bunch of weirdos

'Weird' is pretty subjective. I've seen plenty of weirdness in pride parades (in photos, never actually been to one since, straight), but then plenty of weirdness outside of them, too.

who now enjoy the complete protection of the state and law enforcement as they get in people's faces with extremely revealing and provocative clothing while simulating sex (once called 'obscene') acts in organised public events, which people can criticise or object to at their peril.

Lol, such terrible peril.

They are a demonstration of political power.

All parades are.

 

[cullennz]

How on earth would YOU know what's rare and not rare? Argument from assertion.
Meanwhile, after getting threatened with a lawsuit by Brad Pitt for using his image as the quintessential "straight guy", they've taken on the straightest spokesperson they could locate, Despicable Milo.

Let there be no doubt, this is a trolling operation.

What?



How on earth does the other poster know no straight people have had it?

Or does your point only apply to me?

 

[Checkmite]

Reportedly, Milo has been chosen to be the marshal of the straight-pride parade, effectively confirming that it is just an alt-right parade pretending to be something else.