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Gai Pride
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A nearby town has a 'gai pride'(it is in France) march today. What's to be proud of? if the gais had acheived gaidom after a lifetime of effort then it would be understandable but they claim to be born that way. Perhaps I should start a 5' 10" pride march or a shoe size 9 pride march. But what to wear? there's the problem.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.While I am not gay myself I am old enough to remember the era in the past of people going out at night "gay bashing" (or queer bashing as it was then). Finding places where gays meet up and beating them up for the "fun" of it.
I have also read in the past of gay people being blackmailed by ex lovers.
Also the way we treated people like Alan Turing (who worked at Bletchley Park during WW2 on the enigma code and almost invented the programmable computer himself).
He was gay, and when this was found out he was forced to take tablets to reduce his sex drive (and shrivel up his testicles). If he had not taken the tablets he would have gone to prison and not been allowed to work on these secret missions anymore. Eventually he committed suicide.
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Alan_T uring
So these people at gay pride marches are proud of the fact they can now shout out that they are gay without the risk of being beaten up, sent to prison, or being blackmailed.
I have also read in the past of gay people being blackmailed by ex lovers.
Also the way we treated people like Alan Turing (who worked at Bletchley Park during WW2 on the enigma code and almost invented the programmable computer himself).
He was gay, and when this was found out he was forced to take tablets to reduce his sex drive (and shrivel up his testicles). If he had not taken the tablets he would have gone to prison and not been allowed to work on these secret missions anymore. Eventually he committed suicide.
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So these people at gay pride marches are proud of the fact they can now shout out that they are gay without the risk of being beaten up, sent to prison, or being blackmailed.
Why should they care about "acceptance" into society? I am not gay btw but can to a degree understand the issue and i bet many other women can as I was (am) a childless by choice married woman in the seventies. It wasn't illegal but the social pressure was immense. It was lucky for me that my family viewed it as entirely my and my DH's decision, as did my MIL.
I really think that Baldric and jomifli are (deliberately) missing the point
I really think that Baldric and jomifli are (deliberately) missing the point
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