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April 27, 2004
nice quiet homos
My high school buddy Trav sent me this story from my hometown online newspaper regarding a protest at my former high school. While the anti-gay slant of the protest is sad, it's funny because I never percieved my high school as remarkably gay friendly, although apparently it is being percieved as such by this group. After a little research, I found out that these protesters are from a small town just across the border from Rockford, Illinois, a well-known stronghold for a Midwest KKK organization. This group in particular is being led by a 'priest' of a Christian church that is "dedicated to educating people about the sinfulness of homosexuality". Imagine, an entire church dedicated to homosexuals. Isn't that ironic? Don't they have other petty issues to deal with, like Michael Jackson, carbs, or the final episode of Friends? (Note: I heretofore declare that the words 'Michael Jackson', 'carbs' and 'Friends' [as a proper pronoun] are banned for the remainder of 2004. i just don't want to hear them uttered again, please.)
Anyhow, apparently this group found my high school listed on a website dedicated to a 'day of silence' for gay/lez/bi/trans/whatever support, so they showed up to state their disdain at a high school. I'm not sure what effect it may have had on me when I was in high school, as I was pretty clueless about sexuality in general at that time. I didn't have sex until I was 20, so it wouldn't have been an issue.
Then this weekend I read this editorial in the Washington Blade. The communications/marketing/educator in me supports this guy's idea that we should work on awareness and knowledge-base building for middle America regarding gay marriage. I have seen this approach work firsthand, and clearly, most straight people don't understand why we want these rights (puh-leez: it's not about the wedding, sweeties, it's about the bennies...and the registry too.). On the other hand, pushing the issue to the forefront makes people think about the issue, albeit aggressively rather than passively. It's a 6 of 1, 1/2 dozen of the other sort of issue. However, I also get the impression that he's a proponent of the "let's be good quiet queers and not bother the straight folks" sort of spineless wimp whom I despise.
The moral of the story is, if you are a good, quiet, down-low, in the closet type of homo, everyone is happy. But if you state your support for homos, talk about your partner, flame out, have a public display of affection, or speak up in some manner, people freak out. I will choose to continue to freak people out.
Posted by jimbo at April 27, 2004 10:13 AM
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Oh Jimbo, I'm thinking we should register at Target for that darling toaster!
Posted by: homer at April 27, 2004 11:03 AM
Damn, so much for my comment about how I was busy counting carbs with a real life Friends' star when we saw Michael Jackson crossing the street wearing a fedora.
Posted by: Ed at April 27, 2004 4:22 PM
We, too, in Holmen, couldn't figure why they picked on us. Incidentally, I had to turn off my spamblocker to access these comments. Can't figure that out either.
Posted by: first mom at April 27, 2004 4:38 PM
Good for you!
You give freaks a good name. ::grin::
Posted by: Gene Cowan at April 29, 2004 7:12 PM
...and of course, since the age of 20, has been having sex consistently. As a matter of fact, any typos in this blog can be directly related to a sexual moment of such intensity, that typing on the weblog was momentarily relegated to second most attention-getting pasttime, if only for a moment.
Posted by: beenhexed at April 30, 2004 12:53 PM
...and of course, since the age of 20, has been having sex consistently. As a matter of fact, any typos in this blog can be directly related to a sexual moment of such intensity, that typing on the weblog was momentarily relegated to second most attention-getting pasttime, if only for a moment.
Posted by: beenhexed at April 30, 2004 12:54 PM