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Is There Still A Need For This Expensive And Disruptive Exercise, In This Country?
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Perhaps in those countries that are not so acceptive to homosexuality, but surely there is now no longer need here?
Perhaps in those countries that are not so acceptive to homosexuality, but surely there is now no longer need here?
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“…wander to somewhere along the route of the march. You'll both be very welcome and have an excellent time. :o)” Two or three years ago I was unfortunate enough to be “somewhere along the route of the march”, not wandering but trying to go about my business. I’m not sure whether or not I was welcome (I would like to hope I was not). This was because my...
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Looks like a bloody good party attended by a diverse range of folk, I once heard a whisper that a straight person had attended! Fortunately my identity wasn't revealed due to there being a D Notice in place.
London faces disruption, crowds and road closures for a myriad of reasons on a frequent basis.
As a PP said these people don't all bring a flask and Tupperware box with their jam butty inside. They contribute to the economy and I am quite sure organisers are required to contribute to the cost of additional policing.
There have been some eye opening posts on this thread, to all of them in a good way.
London faces disruption, crowds and road closures for a myriad of reasons on a frequent basis.
As a PP said these people don't all bring a flask and Tupperware box with their jam butty inside. They contribute to the economy and I am quite sure organisers are required to contribute to the cost of additional policing.
There have been some eye opening posts on this thread, to all of them in a good way.
THECORBYLOON
/// ANOTHEOLDGIT, is your nationality not British? ///
No true English through and through, although these days it seems missing from most official forms and the media.
One generally reads "British man found guilty of such and such crime".
Mind you that can cover a multitude of persons, perhaps that is the reason?
/// ANOTHEOLDGIT, is your nationality not British? ///
No true English through and through, although these days it seems missing from most official forms and the media.
One generally reads "British man found guilty of such and such crime".
Mind you that can cover a multitude of persons, perhaps that is the reason?
As usual po-faced anti-fun campaigners make a point of deriding Pride and sneering about "creeps and weirdos" (as if there's anything wrong with being weird if you're just outside having fun) then experience an attack of the vapours when anybody criticises their ideas.
Let's round up the main objections to Pride:
1.Pride is a bit inconvenient for people going out to lunch.
This is the flimsiest pretext I've heard in a long while for whinging about things the poster clearly just a personal distaste for. All public marches and festivals are an inconvenience to some degree or another, and the only way to avoid this is to abolish all cultural life and ban all public festivals across the land. Which is rather Victorian, not to say miserable and self-centred.
2. The people who march in Pride are somehow objectionable.
This is not a valid opinion because all kinds of people go to Pride. People who say this do not know what they are talking about. More often than not another flimsy pretext for being anti-gay.
3. There is nothing to celebrate.
Only works if you think the UK's extension of basic rights to its LGBT citizens is not worth celebrating. Which, unless you have a problem with LGBT people, it patently is.
4. Being gay is wrong/unnatural/a "flaw"
This is, fundamentally, what usually motivates people objecting to Pride. It's nonsense. because a) being gay it is not provably morally wrong b) homosexual/bisexual behaviour occurs in the natural world quite frequently c) it's only a flaw if you assume the only possible purpose in life is to breed. If you want to not breed (as I don't), being gay is a positive asset!
5. It's expensive
Everything worth doing is expensive.
Let's round up the main objections to Pride:
1.Pride is a bit inconvenient for people going out to lunch.
This is the flimsiest pretext I've heard in a long while for whinging about things the poster clearly just a personal distaste for. All public marches and festivals are an inconvenience to some degree or another, and the only way to avoid this is to abolish all cultural life and ban all public festivals across the land. Which is rather Victorian, not to say miserable and self-centred.
2. The people who march in Pride are somehow objectionable.
This is not a valid opinion because all kinds of people go to Pride. People who say this do not know what they are talking about. More often than not another flimsy pretext for being anti-gay.
3. There is nothing to celebrate.
Only works if you think the UK's extension of basic rights to its LGBT citizens is not worth celebrating. Which, unless you have a problem with LGBT people, it patently is.
4. Being gay is wrong/unnatural/a "flaw"
This is, fundamentally, what usually motivates people objecting to Pride. It's nonsense. because a) being gay it is not provably morally wrong b) homosexual/bisexual behaviour occurs in the natural world quite frequently c) it's only a flaw if you assume the only possible purpose in life is to breed. If you want to not breed (as I don't), being gay is a positive asset!
5. It's expensive
Everything worth doing is expensive.
naomi24
/// The Editorial team must be sick and tired of all this pathetic, petulant, reporting. ///
Not quite, they are prepared to remove a none name calling thread of mine, yet allows another to call me a prig and get away with it.
/// That's all I have to say on this dozy thread. ///
Well we have to be thankful for that at least.
/// The Editorial team must be sick and tired of all this pathetic, petulant, reporting. ///
Not quite, they are prepared to remove a none name calling thread of mine, yet allows another to call me a prig and get away with it.
/// That's all I have to say on this dozy thread. ///
Well we have to be thankful for that at least.
I would just like to point out that The Wonderful Services we have ( Police, Fire , Ambulance Nursing Medical etc) all contain so called GAY & LGBT inclined people ( both male & female), & although I have been inclined in the past to be against the promotion of Homosexuality & other differing humans I must say I am extremely proud of them all for showing me the error of my ways. Good luck to them all & may the Pride festival be as successful as it always has been.
It's okay I'm here to brighten your day AOG, and you know how I love all those 'creeps' and 'weirdos' and how much I like to inconvenience all the right wingers trying to go about their lawful activities for a couple of hours. Seriously, it's a nice thing, it doesn't harm anyone so WHY all of the vitriol, usually accompanied by mass denials of being homophobic?
//yet allows another to call me a prig and get away with it. //
Goodness, AOG, someone called you a prig on the internet. How horrible that must be for you...
I can't imagine how well you'd cope with, say, having abuse shouted at you from cars if you dared to hold hands with your partner while walking in the street.
Goodness, AOG, someone called you a prig on the internet. How horrible that must be for you...
I can't imagine how well you'd cope with, say, having abuse shouted at you from cars if you dared to hold hands with your partner while walking in the street.
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