07/16/2007
Telluride "Straight Pride" Parade Marchers No Joke, Say Some
Telluride, Colorado's 4th of July parade had an unusual entry — a group of marchers dressed as the "Straight Pride Brigade." Participants explain that it was meant as "a satire of the over-the-top gay pride parades in cities like New York or San Francisco."
The Telluride Daily Planet reports: "On July 4, a dozen Telluride residents suffered into polyester pants and scratchy sweaters, combed their hair flat and slipped on loafers and pumps to become the Straight Pride marchers. They whooped and waved and kissed in the middle of main street (girls kissing boys, naturally). But it was the group’s signs that most rankled some on the sidelines. Some seemed innocent enough (one said, simply, 'I like boys') but others were less gentle, saying 'I’m Over the Rainbow' or 'Not in my Backdoor.'"
Some residents of the Colorado town, which hosts a gay ski week every year, were not amused.
Said Boulder resident Gretchen Norham: "They were clearly nothing more than an anti-gay hate group. Shame on this group. Shame on the judges. I expected better from people in Telluride."
Another observer said : "It was intended to be funny, biting humor, but some of the signs were not funny. But there was just something about it. Some of the signage was anti-gay."
Another resident, real estate agent Matt Hintenmeister, along with some who wrote letters to the Daily Planet, wants an apology: "They don’t really understand what their float was about. They say that it was all just a joke. Even if it was, they should have realized that it was in really poor taste, and come out publicly and apologized."
Ethan Hale, who marched with the group, defended the idea: "I thought it was going to be a funny idea, so I was up for it. A lot of people are misconstruing it. It was, first and foremost, a joke. It was not homophobic."
The "Straight Pride" marchers took second place in the parade competition's humor category.
Paraders wanted only laughs [telluride daily planet]
Avoid Telluride until town apologizes for “Straight Pride” float [telluride daily planet - letters]
Celebrating in Style [plum tv]
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Comments
While I'm one for a good laugh, this was certainly in poor taste. Marching with signs "Not in my backyard" is inarguably homophobic. If this had been a "White Parade" there would be hell to pay, but once again homosexuals end up the "butt" of jokes (sorry, couldn't resist at least one tongue in cheek innuendo).
Making light of any civil rights movement is in poor taste, and the fact they ranked in second place (or any place) in a humor competition speaks volumes on the citizens of Telluride, Colorado (who should be ashamed). While I agree that gay pride parades have become a bit over the top (I'm sorry, but men in assless leather chaps being pursued by Dykes on Bikes while drag queens throw penis shaped candy at crowds of skinny, tweaked out circuit queens with visions of ecstasy dancing in their heads in front of thousands doesn't exactly make me proud - sorry if that bothers readers), a "Straight Pride Parade" is in extremely poor taste.
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 5:46:47 PM
Were there only two entries in the humor category?
While I support their right to march if they choose to, I do think their display is counter-productive to their stated goal. They showed themselves to be no better than Fred Phelps and I've always said the best way to end homophobia in the general populace is to, on a daily basis, cover the anti-gay/hate activities of Fred Phelps, his clan and his Westboro Baptist Church on the front page of every newspaper and news website with full color photos of their signs because if you want to be anti-gay, you should become aquainted with the teachings/rants of your Messiah.
Posted by: Craig | Jul 16, 2007 5:54:05 PM
Mildly amusing, though many str8's like to use their backdoors too.
Posted by: anon (gmail.com) | Jul 16, 2007 5:55:10 PM
I think it's hilarious. Too many homos are grim and humorless, an unfortunate trait passed on from our lesbian sisters. Personally I would have laughed my ass off at this.
Posted by: Shane | Jul 16, 2007 6:15:49 PM
Andy,
Quick question...why is there an ad for Ann Coulter's column at the bottom of this page?
Posted by: Silverskreen | Jul 16, 2007 6:33:19 PM
Those two white bitches in the pic, in their summer dresses, definately like it int he back door.
Posted by: venice_local | Jul 16, 2007 6:52:10 PM
Very poor taste, and quite frankly absurd. The only "point" of the group was to ridicule gay pride events directly, and indirectly the entire gay civil rights movement. Perhaps not everyone in the group is homophobic, but their "performance" certainly is in my book. Would anyone mock the civil rights movement of women or African-Americans in a similar way?
Look, I can take a joke. I can laugh at homophobic humor the likes of "In Living Color," etc., but this in my eyes is no joke. It is an insult.
I could care less if they apologize or not. I can only hope that this is the one and only time they do it and that perhaps they understand why it offended many people.
Posted by: Jonathon | Jul 16, 2007 6:56:27 PM
I just looked at the photo again. What's the deal with the "I'm just French" guy? That seems to me to be more of the "I'm not gay" message and not the "I'm proud to be straight" sort of parody the organizers claim it was. What's up with that?
Posted by: Jonathon | Jul 16, 2007 6:59:04 PM
Shane, coming from someone who posts (and I quote):
"Allegedly I called my grandmother Sunday morning after being up all night drinking vodka and shortly after taking an Ambien. Allegedly I told her she was a bad grandmother, dissed the presents she has given me over the years, discussed graphic details of mine and my boyfriend's sex life and generally acted like a complete and total asshole while on the phone with her."
...and...
"Since Rupert Everett isn't an American, Rufus Wainwright was occupied 'getting foot massages from [his] German boyfriend, and Doogie Howser was busy picking up on humpy stagehands HRC moved down the list, and who better to question the Democratic candidates on our behalf than a husky-voiced dyke who's almost as well known for picking up Lou Diamond's sloppy seconds as singing 'Come to my window?' "
I find your comments extremely ironic and amusing that you refer to the "homo's" (I assume you mean the gay community, a member I believe you claim to be a part of, but from your self-deprecating and homophobic comments on your blog I am a bit baffled) as "grim and humorless". Me thinks you need to look up the definition of humor as it is sadly lacking from your own blog.
Merriam-Webster:
Humor
Main Entry: hu·mor
Pronunciation: 'hyü-m&r, 'yü-
Function: noun
3 a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing
Posted by: Reality Check | Jul 16, 2007 7:00:21 PM
I know I'll be slammed for saying this, but....Some of the stuff I've seen at gay pride marches is pretty offensive and downright embarrassing. We look at it as being all in fun, and some of it is meant to be "in-you-face." If we're willing to accept this from members of our own community, we need to be willing to at least accept the idea that these people--no matter how ignorant they are-- can express themselves as well. I know, I know, I'm a horrible person and ashamed of my sexuality and wrestle with internal homophobia...Blah, blah.....
Posted by: David | Jul 16, 2007 7:06:48 PM
That's weird; I always thought gay pride parades themselves were offensive, not to mention backwards in progressing rights.
A straight pride parade? Hilarious. Offensive? Hell no.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2007 7:10:14 PM
So am I the only one that finds this disgustingly offensive? It is tantamount to "White Pride" like someone mentioned in the comments. This could only have been dreamed up and consumed by ignorant straight white wealthy people who have no idea the history of or the purpose of a pride parade. I'll be the first to criticize pride parades, but first of all, im gay, so the context is completely different coming from LGBTQ people. Second of all, I wouldn't do it in such a blatantly mean spirited manner and then try to cover my ass by labeling it humor.
Im sorry, but a bunch of straight people don't have the right to "satarize" LGBTQ people because they have no idea what they are dealing with.
Posted by: Branflakes | Jul 16, 2007 7:10:30 PM
Looks like a Wal-Mart fashion show.
I especially love the c%ck broom and Eagle bar costume on the "I'm Just French" guy. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Posted by: RP | Jul 16, 2007 7:14:20 PM
Joe: based on the I.Q. level (or lack there of) in your previous posts, I take your opinions with a grain of salt (that means I don't).
David: While I agree that gay pride parades are out of control these days, it does not give heterosexual people carte blanche to ridicule and make fun of the gay community. Keep in mind, some of the "signs" used were extremely homophobic in nature (i.e. "Not in my backyard), so this clearly wasn't a "tongue in cheek" repartee as the people claim.
Seriously ask yourself what is humorous about a group of heterosexual people, who have NO idea about the struggles of the homosexual community, making fun of "Gay Pride" parades? NOTHING.
Again, had this been a "White Pride" parade (which would technically be a KKK parade), would people be laughing?
Posted by: Sad | Jul 16, 2007 7:15:42 PM
The main thing that gets me about this is how clueless these people are. If you are shocked by large, relatively tame and mainstream events then you probably should avoid trying to come up with anything resembling satire.
Posted by: michael | Jul 16, 2007 7:18:35 PM
Tell Telluride what you think:
Town of Telluride
P.O. Bo 397
Telluride, Colorado 81435
Phone: (970) 728-3071
FAX: (970) 728-3078
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 7:25:58 PM
"That's weird; I always thought gay pride parades themselves were offensive, not to mention backwards in progressing rights.
A straight pride parade? Hilarious. Offensive? Hell no."
I agree. How on earth do half naked men and/or buttless chaps show the world that we aren't the sex-obsessed people they think we are? I propose that the next Pride parade, everyone wears what they wear to work; lawyers go as lawyers, policemen go as policemen, that way they'll see that we're just like them, that we are live and work and love just like they do. That would go further towards equality than parading around in a cockring or harness. Sure, it wouldn't attract a crowd quite the way it does now, but at least when that time comes around that we do make the news en masse, we're represented by who we are than by what we do. We've made ourselves the butt of the joke.
Posted by: Arron | Jul 16, 2007 7:26:08 PM
Sad: I'd respect gay pride parades a lot more if they did anything worthwhile, so when you say:
While I agree that gay pride parades are out of control these days, it does not give heterosexual people carte blanche to ridicule and make fun of the gay community."
I'm going to have to disagree with you here; I believe it does. Not the black community, not the Hispanic community, not any historically oppressed group of people have had the antics of the gay community and gay pride parades.
"Seriously ask yourself what is humorous about a group of heterosexual people, who have NO idea about the struggles of the homosexual community, making fun of "Gay Pride" parades?"
But gay pride parades DON'T GIVE A SHIT about gay rights - they're called gay pride parades, not gay rights parades; meanwhile, people who actually care about giving everyone equal rights are marching on Washington, not the streets of San Francisco.
Call me stupid if you want to, but do realize that giving into the gay thought police only empowers the enemy.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2007 7:26:08 PM
Sad: I'd respect gay pride parades a lot more if they did anything worthwhile, so when you say:
While I agree that gay pride parades are out of control these days, it does not give heterosexual people carte blanche to ridicule and make fun of the gay community."
I'm going to have to disagree with you here; I believe it does. Not the black community, not the Hispanic community, not any historically oppressed group of people have had the antics of the gay community and gay pride parades.
"Seriously ask yourself what is humorous about a group of heterosexual people, who have NO idea about the struggles of the homosexual community, making fun of "Gay Pride" parades?"
But gay pride parades DON'T GIVE A SHIT about gay rights - they're called gay pride parades, not gay rights parades; meanwhile, people who actually care about giving everyone equal rights are marching on Washington, not the streets of San Francisco.
Call me stupid if you want to, but do realize that giving into the gay thought police only empowers the enemy.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2007 7:27:37 PM
Just when you think it can't get any worse, there is a website selling Telluride "Straight Pride" wear:
http://www.cafepress.com/telluride/538865
"Straight in Telluride" printed on shirts and stickers. Nice eh.
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 7:30:39 PM
We embark into dangerous territory when we confuse "satire" with "hate."
And vice versa.
Posted by: Bill | Jul 16, 2007 7:33:53 PM
Joe, you're wrong about gay pride not contributing anything. In fact, gay pride in NYC contributes much of its money to HIV awareness and other charitable causes in Manhattan. It also raises awareness, as Mayor Bloomberg and other political figures and celebrities have marched in Pride parades, giving speeches on human rights issues while using their time to raise awareness to important causes. While I certainly agree with you 100% that the parades are over the top (see my commentary about re: gay pride parades), it DOES NOT give a bunch of straight people the right to ridicule the gay community, which is essentially what they are doing. Hell, there are web sites SELLING "Straight Pride in Telluride" gear. I do not find the deaths of Andrew Anthos, Matthew Shephard, and countless other victims, to be made in vain so a bunch of ignorant country folk from Telluride can poke fun at us. Yes, having a sense of humor is essential in life, but to what extent? Not at the price of me, not at the price of you, not at the price of US.
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 7:35:57 PM
If anyone cares: The contact address for the Telluride Gay Ski Week is
info@telluridegayskiweek.com
Posted by: RP | Jul 16, 2007 7:37:47 PM
I would think that a straight pride parade would have at least one float with a couple of straights dressed as rabbits and hundreds of babby bunnies hopping around....of course the title of the float would read "breeders".
Or to coin a David Rabe line from "streamers", there could be a male psychiatrist with a woman patient and the title of the float would be "The rapist (therapist)"
Or if cooly elegant simplicity is your thing, how about just a single straight guy dressed as President Bush, killing thousands of people?
To me, all of the above are hilarious stereotypes of straight people.
Posted by: woodroad34 | Jul 16, 2007 7:38:32 PM
babby = baby and the line was from "Boom Boom Room" not "Streamers" if anyone desperately cares.
No? I didn't think so.
Posted by: woodroad34 | Jul 16, 2007 7:42:29 PM
Shane -
Grim and humorless, like our lesbian sisters? You mean like Kate Clinton, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen Degeneres, Lea Delaria, Lily Tomlin, and Agnes Moorehead?
Posted by: JOE 2 | Jul 16, 2007 7:43:42 PM
If they really wanted to have a "Straight Pride" parade, they'd have Guilliani in the front with his three wives, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan showing off their fish tacos, Pamela Anderson taking it in the rear for Tommy, the countless advertisers who publish heterosexual advertisements, numerous famous straight couples, ETC ETC ETC.
A lot of the commentators seem to be too young to understand why gay pride parades started in the first place. After the Stonewall incident in N.Y.C., pride parades were initially enacted to counteract intolerance. As the years passed, it became an "Outfest", intentionally vulgar and in your face in order to counter act the heterosexual mass media. Pride parades were the one day in the year that the gay community could put gay sex in the face of the straight community, as heterosexual sex was/is everyone. In movies, TV, advertisements. Gay Pride was a backlash to that, and still is as the gay community has a long way to go.
Posted by: Gay Pride Parades | Jul 16, 2007 7:45:05 PM
Having to go all the way to the minor actions of a few people in an insignificant Colorado mountain town for the "daily offense" shows that we actually may be getting somewhere in the quest for equal rights.
Posted by: Rick | Jul 16, 2007 7:48:30 PM
Gay Pride Parades --
Might I add that most of the "offensive" parades take place in cities that already accept (pretty much, at least) gays. Try having a tiny little in-offensive parade in someplace like Simi Valley in California or a small town in Kansas.....oooo-ooo, or how about Moscow or Israel where you can be beaten to a pulp by police or blown up by religious neanderthals. Israel and Moscow, that's what I call straight pride.
Posted by: woodroad34 | Jul 16, 2007 7:52:06 PM
As someone else commented, straight people do not have the right to deem what is humorous about the gay community and what is not based on gay pride. This is dangerous territory indeed. Nothing about a "Straight Pride Parade" is humorous. How many heterosexual people have been murdered or victimized for being straight?
Regardless of whether of not gay pride parades are extreme, it is no excuse for heterosexual people to ridicule a minority group.
As for someone who said gay pride parades contribute nothing to society: That has got to be the most ignorant comment I have read in a long time. Gay pride (not just the parades) raise awareness and money for many important causes. Do not let the extreme aspects of the pride parades over shadow the positive effects that gay pride parades do have for their respective cities. That would be ignorant.
Posted by: Qwerty | Jul 16, 2007 7:53:05 PM
"That would be ignorant."
I disagree; there's no reason for gay pride parades to be the way they are - there's no place such behavior comes from, and because NO ONE can question the gay community, it has gone on unchecked.
This is ridiculous.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2007 8:05:12 PM
It seems Joe is another self loathing homosexual. Joe, sweets, I think you need to buy a clue. Really. Just because you don't like gay pride parades or because you weren't picked for dodgeball in grade school doesn't mean that "there's no reason for gay pride parades to be the way they are". Who died and made you the guru on gay pride history? ... and please, tell that line about gay pride parades not doing anything good to the young homeless homosexuals who receive clothing and shelter from gay pride donations as their family's have rejected them for being gay, or the individuals who have receive financial legal support for being hate crime victims, or the hate crime bills and other anti-hate legislation that gets signatures and approvals from gay pride parades and the floats that sponsor them. Your commentary is pure ignorance, plain and simple.
Posted by: Voice of Reason | Jul 16, 2007 8:13:32 PM
In the words of many a gay man - "Girl's get over it!"
It's no worse than drag humor, Margaret Cho making fun of straight people or Kathy Griffin's D-List. It was good natured satire even if some of the signs were stupid. I don't think they meant any harm. Laugh...it's flattering in some strange way...
Posted by: Pugzz | Jul 16, 2007 8:15:53 PM
I think the phrase everyone is looking for is "mean-spirited" which is what a lot of "conservative humor" is. And they have a every right to do it and i'll defend that right.
As for our "wonderful" pride events (ours is 3 days) - they have become a means onto themselves. They are highly commercialized events that contain a lot of things that are offensive to many people. There are so many other ways to raise awareness and to raise funds for causes so that is just a weak excuse for a few days in july of drinking and debauchery. Not that there isn't anything wrong with that. :)
Posted by: yoshi | Jul 16, 2007 8:18:19 PM
Pugzz, I'll get over it as soon as they get over us.
Joe, I should have known, you're only 18, just a babe from Milwaukee, that explains so much.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=144503887
Posted by: Jake | Jul 16, 2007 8:21:07 PM
I think that we are becoming a bit hypersensitive. If we keep crying about every little thing that we deem offensive and homophobic, we'll lose credibility for those offenses that are truly damaging.
I agree with the majority of you who thought this was ridiculous, but I don't think it warrants outrage. If I'm at all offended, it's by the ignorance of those individuals who obviously don't realize why there are Pride parades to begin with.
Let's lighten up folks. Life shouldn't be this heavy. Does it suck...yes! Is it fair...no! But, is it worth all of this aggravation...absolutely NOT!
Posted by: Keith | Jul 16, 2007 8:25:36 PM
the thing that strikes me about this isn't that it's offensive, it just isn't that funny though humor was supposedly what they were trying to achieve. "I'm just french"? huh? how about "I'm just english" which makes more sense.
we've seen gay related humor on south park which can be funny because it's so toungue in cheek. this was like a third rate road show with bad actors. don't just get politically correct, get some sense of comedy and then maybe we'd believe you.
Posted by: hughman | Jul 16, 2007 8:28:43 PM
oh lighten up girls, damn. it was meant to be funny, and it pretty much was funny. and the signs said "not in my backdoor" not, "not in my backyard." don't lose your reading skills along with your sense of humor. you can tell from the costumes, and the signs that its tongue in cheek, and they're more making fun of "straight stereotypes" than gay ones. but even if they were, so what. theres a lot of funny things about gay stereotypes, and lets face it, a lot of gay people hew pretty damn close to those stereotypes. and we gay people make fun of them along with everybody else...admit it, you do. you know you do. and that doesn't make you a hater. and god, what is it with all the anti gay pride. it is what its always been, and everyone goes from liking it, and even needing it, to growing up and away from it. just because you're over it, doesn't mean somebody else doesn't get a charge out of it. let 'em. so, enough from me. except for the lesbian hater. fuck you you mysogynist asshole. there, so the point is, let humor be humor, don't suck the life out of it by demanding that any edge be removed from it. and quit on the "eating our own" shit. seriously.
Posted by: dan | Jul 16, 2007 8:31:44 PM
I think the main issue isn't whether or not gay parades are over the top, it is about a group of people who are using the excuse of humor to cover up homophobia. Articles have stated some of the signs used said "Not in my backyard", "It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve", and "I'm over the rainbow". These are clearly not gay friendly signs and certainly portray a sense of intolerance. I can laugh at gay stereotypes like anybody, but in this instance I have to agree that this is in bad taste. Am I getting my panties in a bunch? No, there are bigger fish to fry. However, I would hate to see a trend start, and by being silent, we are in essence saying that it's ok. It isn't.
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 8:35:51 PM
Dan, some articles state "Not in my backdoor" and some "not in my backyard". Either way, tomato, tomatah, they aren't very gay friendly.
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 8:43:34 PM
Wasn't sure what I thought until I read some of the comments (if you go with your gut reaction with an item like this then you're thinking with your gut and not your brain).
Anyway I agree with Keith's comment,"Does it suck...yes! Is it fair...no! But, is it worth all of this aggravation...absolutely NOT!"
If you don't understand the power of the Parade then you don't understand the historical context. Do I like EVERY SINGLE FLOAT in the PARADE? Well fuck no. Likely cause they don't all REPRESENT ME!
Get over yourselves. Not every fag with a boa or buttless chaps is causing anti-gay laws to pass in your country. Talk about blaming the victim!
In Toronto we have police and ambulance drivers march in the parade. Do we have people in the Military service? No. Not YET. But we will. And when we do we will see it as a sign of progress. We'll laugh at the Nude Men group and scowl at the moving circuit-party-meets-booze-ad but we'll still cheer at the PFLAG group and the politicans who MUST march if they want to win the next election. It wasn't always this way and THAT'S THE POINT.
As for you bitter 'mos who hate the parade - well - go start your own tradition. I'm 'over' the parades too but it doesn't mean I don't understand why they're important.
Anyway too many of you have left your buttplugs in.
Posted by: Justin... | Jul 16, 2007 9:00:10 PM
Ok, I read the article, the commentary and other related bits of information on this issue. I took a shower, thought about it, weighed both sides of the debate, and my thoughts are this:
1. A group of heterosexual people in a small town in Colorado marched in a Fourth of July parade (nothing to do with gay pride) as "Straight Pride" people.
2. Some of them held signs that read "Not in my backdoor" (or yard, depending on which article you read, seems they got it wrong), "It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" (a very popular anti-gay statement) and "I'm over the rainbow".
3. There is a website making a profit off of gear from this group, with items stating "Straight Pride in Telluride" (who is making money off of this?).
4. This group came in second place in a humor contest for the parade.
Ok, now, a few people state that the gay community should get a sense of humor, and that gay pride parades are over the top and deserve to be ridiculed.
If those statements are from gay people, I am baffled. Either there are some self loathing gay men on here or Telluride has some excellent P.R. people doing damage control.
First, these people are not our friends. Sure, have a sense of humor, laughing at yourself is important in life. However, these people are making fun of us, and not in a tongue in cheek way. They are using humor as a way of covering up homophobia. Period.
Second, they are selling gear, as Cory pointed out, at this website:
http://www.cafepress.com/telluride/538865
This does not indicate a "one time", tongue in cheek joke. They are perpetuating this stereotype and joke by selling clothing. If I came across someone wearing a "Straight Pride" t-shirt I can guarantee that I would not be thrilled nor would I find it funny.
Third, we have not come this far to be the butt of some heterosexuals joke.
This whole situation wreaks of intolerance, shrouded in humor. Nothing about this is funny. Nothing.
Posted by: Theo | Jul 16, 2007 9:10:24 PM
Thanks Justin, you definitely bring in perspective and reason into this discussion. Thanks =).
Posted by: Cory | Jul 16, 2007 9:12:02 PM
"I think the main issue isn't whether or not gay parades are over the top, it is about a group of people who are using the excuse of humor to cover up homophobia"
I think that's a valid concern, but it's almost as if they're mocking the Fred Phelps of the world, and in doing so - are they actually being homophobic? With the previous history of the parade - flag burning, etc., as the article mentions, isn't this a satire? I mean, the person holding the Adam and Steve nonsense - do we have a context for that?
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2007 9:13:38 PM
Besides - wouldn't the most ardent homophobes conjour a 'straight pride parade' in utter seriousness?
Are they really mocking gay pride parades?
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2007 9:15:34 PM
I say we get back at them by holding a genuine, bona fide, Telluride Gay Pride Parade. Import all the drag queens, muscle men, femme lesbians, leather daddies, dykes on bikes, and trannies from cities all across Amerikkka to Telluride, CO for a looooooooooooooooooong weekend of GLBT Pride. That should show 'em not to make fun of us queers.
Posted by: peterparker | Jul 16, 2007 9:53:15 PM
I have lived in Atlanta for many years and have attended (and marched in) many parades during the gay pride festival. Many years ago, the parade was VERY rowdy and coarse. The atmosphere was very sexualized. Lots of nudity, lots of exhibitionism.
(In fact, one of my favorite memories of my first few pride festivals was of an old, bearded man running around in an antebellum hoop skirt - who then flashed everyone by lifting up his dress to reveal the biggest and most vulgar dildo I've ever seen!)
Nowadays, the pride event has become much more mainstream and "family" oriented. I see less and less of the overt sexualized displays and more and more of "just plain folks". Mind you, there are still those out there who exercise their personal rights to the fullest - and that is OK with me - and go "too far" in some people's view.
At least in Atlanta, the media is doing a better job of not focusing on the "freaks" and instead covering the "regular people" who make up 98% of the group. There will always be the obligatory drag queens and butch dykes, but increasingly the faces seen at these events are just like those people see every day at work and even at the grocery store!
That being said... we should ALL keep in mind that many of those "freaks" who some find embarassing are actually those who worked to make it possible for the rest of us to come out and show up at pride events. Without the hard work and the risks taken by those who pioneered pride events all over the country, we'd not be as free as we are today to be honest and open about our lives.
Posted by: Jonathon | Jul 16, 2007 9:54:19 PM
It never fails to amaze me how some people can create a reason to be offended about anything that satirizes them even mildly --- enough to press their mental "I'm being attacked" button.
A few years ago there was a float in a Gay Pride Parade --- I think it was in L.A. --- titled "Gays Against Brunch!" And believe it or not, some people didn't realize that it was tongue-in-cheek, that they weren't actually attacking the "guppies" that go to upscale political brunches usually held at the fancy downtown hotels. Some took it seriously, saying "Oh, this is the poor welfare gays attacking the callousness of the well-moneyed, upper-middle-class gays!" Wrong, Quasimodo! They were just making a clever and somewhat subtle joke!
I think if the straights in the "Straight Pride" contingent wanted to be homophobic, they have smarts enough to make that intention clear. And if Telluride didn't think our money was good enough, they wouldn't invite us there for a fun weekend of skiing every year. Lighten up, dudes!
Posted by: Sebastian V | Jul 16, 2007 9:58:43 PM
Maybe NBC or Universal can pick up the rights to this and offer the lead to Isaiah Washington.
Posted by: GE | Jul 16, 2007 10:02:58 PM
I'm sorry, but I think if I had seen this I would have laughed my ass off. To those offended I say lighten up and recognize a good joke! And that, I'm sorry, was a good joke. I have many straight friends that nudge my gay sensibilities every now and again (as I nudge their straight sensibilities every now and again). And it seems to me that our collective inability to laugh is spiraling out of control and it seems that we are looking for ways to be offended.
Posted by: Joe H. | Jul 16, 2007 10:17:52 PM
Some people just don't get it. Sebastian and Joe H., I'll laugh when it's funny.
Sebastian, comparing a "Gays against brunch" to homophonic twats in Colorado holding anti-gay signs and having a "Straight Pride Parade" AND selling "Straight Pride in Telluride" clothing online is backwards and illogical.
They are laughing AT you not WITH you. Chuckle away, nuckleheads, chuckle away.
Posted by: Jake | Jul 16, 2007 10:23:59 PM
Astonishing, that in the face of the logical arguments that this is not funny some gays still think we should all have a good laugh at our expense. This is not a matter of simply lightening up, people, this is homophobia.
Maybe it's denial, maybe it's ignorance, maybe it's both, but I'm astonished that any one who is gay would support these people and find this funny. Self loathing? Maybe. Ignorant? Definitely. Clueless? Without a doubt.
This isn't a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, joke, These are people that find you and your sexuality fodder for their own entertainment.
If this was a "White Pride" parade, poking fun at the Panther movement or other extreme ends of the African-American civil rights movement, there would be a HUGE backlash.
Yet there are a couple of fools in the King's Court that think because they can laugh at this they're accepted and "cool", but guess what, the joke's on them.
Posted by: Astonished | Jul 16, 2007 10:30:21 PM
LOL at the people who think this is funny. LOL @ all of you.
Posted by: wtf | Jul 16, 2007 10:38:10 PM
SEBASTIAN V.: No one is creating a reason to be offended, it's already there. You'd be a total idiot to think that any one is raising a stink over nothing. Then again...
Posted by: Hell NO! | Jul 16, 2007 10:40:30 PM
Seems to me like a vaguely humorous concept that got out of hand.
Interesting to note that one of the items for sale on cafepress.com says "Only Losers Get Baked--I Got Straight in Telluride." So apparently whomever is selling stuff on their behalf is actually playing with more than one definition of "straight."
Posted by: Feral | Jul 16, 2007 10:42:46 PM
Bah. That's not over the top. Now, if they'd dressed up in 1950s June Cleaver drag, had twenty people dressed up as screaming children, signs saying "Breeder Pride," some women dressed as drag queens and some guys dressed as leather daddies, but kissing each other, now that would have been funny.
Posted by: Gitai | Jul 16, 2007 10:44:09 PM
Only a few people pointed out the obvious, that these are a bunch of young, str8 kids who don't know what it means to be gay and/or who don't know/understand the history of gay pride and gay pride parades. It seems the young gay guys don't know enough either, and aren't seeing this for what it truly is....
If people take offense to this, there is usually good reason, and perhaps people should take pause and listen to/read those reasons before simply dismissing them as over-reactionary. Those who simply dismiss this as light humor are missing the point, and seem to be a bit too fool hardy to understand and see the bigger picture.
Posted by: Think before you dismiss | Jul 16, 2007 10:45:23 PM
IS COLORADO PART OF THE UNITED STATES? I think Colorado was a province of Canada.
Canada doesn't have a constitution. The government can outlaw anything it wants.
Posted by: Tony the Tiger | Jul 16, 2007 10:47:42 PM
There certainly are a lot of self-loathing homo's one here eh.
Posted by: Tommy | Jul 16, 2007 10:51:38 PM
Soooo, ummm, basically, we have a bunch of gay people, saying it's ok, for ummmm, a bunch of straight people to, well, make fun of them.
WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE! WAKE UP! WAKE THE FUCK UP!
That's all.
Posted by: Jon Stewart | Jul 16, 2007 11:10:13 PM
Maybe if a straight person commits a hate crime as part of their parole they should be required to read this blog for an hour each day. That would be great EXCEPT it would be "cruel and unusual punishment" to have to read these incredibly boring and poorly written posts. Eck.
Posted by: Tony the Tiger | Jul 16, 2007 11:24:45 PM
Even as a gay man and friend of Gilbert Baker's, I too am so "over the Rainbow..."
How do we know these people are actually straight? Young people are so into that whole "sexuality is fluid" thing.
How about before anyone dismisses others as "fool hardy" or plays the "victim" card we reach out and build some bridges. None of those kids look like they're there to hate. They do look like they need some help with their humor. There are much funnier ways to display "Straight Pride" with even deeper, more penetrating digs to be made at how odd the human condition really is for all who love and fuck.
Also, don't dismiss the State of Colorado. There are a lot of really great people that live there - in my opinion, better than most New Yorkers (which is where I live now) - and they do understand irony.
Posted by: Brian | Jul 16, 2007 11:26:02 PM
So, um, Brian, by that logic, these, "people", who may or may not be homophobic, should be, well, given a chance, cause you know, holding signs that say "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" and "not in my backdoor" are, well, on the fence on where they stand with homosexuality. Oh, and they could be gay too, apparently, cause I know, gay people love to dress up as straight people and mock themselves, iiin, well, a homophobic sort of irony, cause these are intellectuals who, reeeally know how to be ironic in a small, sleepy town in Coloradooooo.
WHAT?! (bangs head on desk)
Posted by: Jon Stewart | Jul 16, 2007 11:35:54 PM
This is not tantamount to a "white pride". Sexuality is not race. This is freedom of speech. If it is not funny to you, don't laugh and do not buy their products. There was once a time in America when we believed it was wrong to punish thought, expression, or speech. As a non self-loathing gay person I believe it is very important to let this one go. Choose your battles carefully. This one is not worth it.
Posted by: Sam | Jul 16, 2007 11:52:41 PM
gay pride parades exist to make the point that gay is ok (along the lines of "we're here, we're queer, ...."). they don't exist to say we're better than straights or that straights are bad. this is where the difference is. a sign that says "not in my backdoor" or "i'm over the rainbow" is a completely different, homophobic, sentiment.
Posted by: michael k | Jul 16, 2007 11:57:50 PM
Maybe they're Scientologists? Tom Cruise has a house in Telluride. Maybe they're making sure we all know it's a REALLY butch town.
Posted by: Daniel | Jul 17, 2007 12:26:09 AM
So Sam, in that same vein, it's, well, ok for say, the Phelps clan to picket the funerals of slain soldiers and gay men cause, well, it's freedom of speech. Going a step fuuuurther, it's ok for hate speech, cause, well, freedom of speech is protected and all, even when that hate speech incites violence against people. Hmmmmm. So pick our battles, pick our battles.... hmmmmm, let's say we ignore the little battles, and after a while, like the .1% of bacteria that isn't killed by anti-bacterial soaps and antibiotics, let's correctly assume that the .1% (the same gay battles we're, well, ignoring) become resistant and grow, becoming, well, infectious. Just like the .1% of bacteria that grows resistant to medical intervention, should the gay community, just "let this go" cause it's a "small battle"? MMMM, maybe not, after all it was only two men that killed Matthew Shephard.
Point is Sam, even the small battles can grow out of control if unchecked. Not sweating, well, means we our silence condones it.
(I didn't realize simple logic is such a rare quality these days)
Posted by: Jon Stewart | Jul 17, 2007 12:30:39 AM
Oh, and one more thing, civil rights movements are similar (after all, it is, well, "equal rights" we're after). Stating that, "straight pride" isn't tantamount to "white pride" is, well, THE MOST FUCKING STUPID THING I HAVE EVER READ. Yes, of course sexuality is not race, you'd have to be a fucking moron not to know that. However, they are CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS.
arrrggghhh - is it any wonder why our school system is failing (bangs head on desk)
Posted by: Jon Stewart | Jul 17, 2007 12:34:51 AM
Sam, gay rights and racial equality are both civil rights movements. Basically, what you just wrote doesn't make sense. It's like saying oranges are different than apples therefore oranges are not fruits. They are both fruits, different types of fruits, but fruits. Sexual orientation and racial equality are both civil rights movements, basic logic 101. So a "Straight Pride" parade would be similar to a "White Pride" parade, basic SAT logic.
Just when I thought the stupidity level couldn't get any lower on in this section, the bar is set higher. In the end, the lack of logic and severe apathy from the supporters of the "Straight Pride" parade side makes me feel that much more confident that they're wrong, so very wrong.
Posted by: Anthony | Jul 17, 2007 12:42:47 AM
I'm number 70!
Many of my str8 friends are rather humorless about their dating lives (or lack thereof), which makes it hard for me to make fun of them, in a toying kind-of-way of course. They think gay men can have sex any time they want and don't fret over committment issues, etc. Envy! It's a joy killer. When I mention I was out with a guy over the weekend they usually roll their eyes like I'm rubbing it in their face. Oh well...
Anyway, a str8 pride parade as satire would presumably not make mention of things gay, but rather push str8 stereotypes to the limit. If they had failed in anything, it was to adhere to this concept. So, the intention was harmless, but the execution was sloppy. If they were mocking homophobia, I imagine they might have done a fire-and-brimstone preacher skit, though it would have been hard to distinguish from the real thing. If they were mocking gay pride (again, this would be a challenge), they would have probably needed to go the self-loathing and disease route, which they didn't do. No smiling AIDS victims here with KS or guys carrying colostomy bags. I think they were simply not the best comedians around.
Posted by: anon (gmail.com) | Jul 17, 2007 2:19:07 AM
I am not amused.
Posted by: SC | Jul 17, 2007 3:26:47 AM
I’m a straight guy who has lived—intermittently—in Telluride for years. A friend of mine linked me this post. I can understand the offense.
As I read the post, I was shocked: not at the expression of homophobia, which I know to expect when sharing a state with the Church of New Life and its meth-addled pastor (those of you above accusing others of being self-hating homos, please remember the example of Ted Haggard), but because some group would come all the way to Telluride just to sour an otherwise charming parade. Then I looked harder at the picture.
Look at the man on the left. I have never, ever seen anyone dress like that in Telluride. People will dress nicely, sure, but not with that much starch, and especially not on what is often a sweltering 4th of July—numerous floats are equipped with squirt guns to help cool off the crowd. He’s wearing the straight equivalent of assless chaps, at least for Telluride, and although I can’t speak for the ladies, the guy in the black tank top and the I-love-leather mustache is pretty clearly not serious. Either they’re not from Telluride, and they actually drove all the way into a fairly difficult to access canyon just to march in a local parade in a town of 2,100 people, or they’re being ironic.
Now, we get jerks in Telluride, all the more because of a ridiculously expensive ski resort. I’ve passed people wearing Prada on the slopes making the kind of mincing little turns which are only possible when one’s asshole is as rigid as one’s mind, and I know that plenty of GOP types fly in from the coasts to present their puckered assholes to the snow, gripe about liberals, and (true, heard it from a friend who caters for them) talk about who last saw Paris Hilton. I don’t know why they don’t go to Utah, personally. Too middlebrow, maybe?
That said, we’re talking about a town which, as an earlier poster mentioned, tolerates flag burning in the freaking Fourth of July parade. Brokeback Mountain premiered in the Telluride Film Festival, as did The Crying Game and Kinsey, both of which I have a hard time squaring with the image of angry homophobes wielding bullhorns. While we’ve never had any pride parades that I can recall, the Gay Ski Week does raise money to fight AIDS, and hey, it does it without all the drama around the parades which I read above. Add that to the fact that Telluride is a town of only a couple thousand, and it becomes pretty clear that they were making a joke amongst like-minded people. People who pretty obviously got it: that they were satirizing the kind of homophobic puckered assholes who would think that a slogan like “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” is really fucking clever.
Of course, I could be wrong. I hope I’m not, but I’m stuck in New York this summer and I wasn’t there to see the parade. Even if I’m not, maybe this will inspire similar, painfully sincere straight pride marches. Marches which may then, like too many people do, hide genuine bigotry behind the veneer of humor. Hopefully it won’t, but even if it does, it’s hard to fault a few marchers for taking life lightly when there are deadly serious people like Phelps around. And for the record, I would have been a bit more over the top (throw on some cheesy GOP gear at least, or frat boy outfits and have them paddling each other). Their current getups are, sadly, all too easy to believe, especially to someone who doesn’t know the town.
Still think they weren’t being ironic? Fair enough—after all, as the ironically named Jon Stewart helpfully points out above, we Coloradans do have a doozy of a time wrapping our skulls around the concept (something to do with metal, right?). So come on out for Gay Ski Week. We have some really great terrain, a fucking gorgeous landscape, and you can get a good core workout and help fight AIDS at the same time. Just watch out for puckered assholes who can’t ski.
Posted by: Kicks | Jul 17, 2007 3:57:01 AM
I can just imagine how they were planning this...
"So, what's up?"
"Nothing much.. say, what are you doing on July 4?"
"Just going to barbecue..."
"How about this... let's enter into that parade, you know the one in Telluride... and our theme should be this... now listen here... a STRAIGHT PRIDE PARADE! We need to show those gay people who's boss!"
"Ok!"
Idiots.
Posted by: Nate | Jul 17, 2007 4:24:49 AM
Yes ,"John Stewart", Fred Phelps and what he does is OK. Well maybe not OK, howabout "legal and protected".
Yes, please do forget about that .1 % of bacteria. Bacteria is good for you actually. I hope you do not really use anti bacterial soaps. they are bad for you.
Hate speech is protected as well, as long as it is not used for the purpose of knowingly and willfully enciting a riot.
I stand by my statement that Straight Pride is not tantamount to White Pride. ESPECIALLY in this instance. What happened here was an attempt at politically incorrect humor. Something your namesake knows alot about I would guess. So you didnt find it funny. Oh well. Humor is subjective. They came in second place. So, many other people in Telluride must have not found it funny (or funniest) either.
I have lived in Wyoming and have visited many towns in the west. I have been to Telluride, CO. Like many of these ski towns, it is rich, white, educated, crunchy and granola wrapped up into a nice lil progressive mountain town. I really think our efforts would be wasted boycotting their gay ski week. There are other battles in our civil rights war that deserve our attention. I guess my point is: Let's not get too dramatic. A sternly worded letter from GLAAD will probably suffice.
Posted by: Sam | Jul 17, 2007 5:03:54 AM
Based on what I have read in these posts (ahem, SAM), I can see how we keep getting screwed when it comes to seeking equal rights. Just because you roll over in the bedroom doesn't mean you should do it with your (or my) entire life.
We're the one remaining group that it's acceptable to discriminate against (even if some of you think it's just a lil' ol' harmless "straight parade"). That doesn't make this behavior right and it doesn't mean it should tolerated.
Posted by: Shane | Jul 17, 2007 7:51:43 AM
ooh! There are two Shane's on here: one who is a stupid a$$hole who agrees with Joe and Sam that making fun of a minority group is acceptable "humor", and the other one is me. :o)
Posted by: Shane | Jul 17, 2007 8:01:29 AM
I can't believe this is getting more comments than the post about that boob O'Donnell.
Posted by: Peter | Jul 17, 2007 8:43:25 AM
Just to let you all you know it was a joke and happened to be funny, if you knew the partcipants, especially knowing many people in the "float" are gay. It was to make fun of the homophobic nation. Problem was people thought they serious. Telluride is one of most repspectfull places of all people, don't be fooled. come to paradise and see for yourself...
Posted by: scott | Jul 17, 2007 10:07:45 AM
There is a man in the photo carrying a sign that says, "I'm just French." That is funny to me. I understand how people could misunderstand and get offended by these people, but it really seems more like a parody of both gay pride parades and gay bashing fundamentalists than an actual attack on gay rights. I think we should save our strength for the people who do this stuff but really aren't joking.
Posted by: R | Jul 17, 2007 10:45:00 AM
The straight pride marchers should be ashamed of themselves in this day and age. There are similar discriminatory groups that march in parades of course, like the KKK. There is no humor in either case.
This is especially disturbing in a town that reaps millions from gay ski week every year. I would urge the local gay and lesbian groups to identify the marchers and post on the web what shops or restaurants they own, so gays and lesbians can avoid or protest their establishments this coming winter. Their float and signs went beyond simply humor, so perhaps they should practice what they preach, and see how their lives go without any gay men or women in their lives decorating their houses, doing their hair, planting their landscape, selling them their cars, keeping them safe at 30,000 feet, designing their clothes, selling them shoes, etc. I can only wonder what tragedy will befall one of their own young children that might be gay when they see mom and dad and their country club friends marching against them.
My partner and I certainly won't be coming to Telluride for gay ski week or any other time until they apologize.
Posted by: Paul | Jul 17, 2007 11:09:49 AM
Will they laugh when one of their gay closeted children kills themselves because mom and dad are marching and proud to be straight?
Posted by: Eric | Jul 17, 2007 11:20:46 AM
I visit Telluride every winter because the skiing is awesome. Never had a prob with homophobia.
Maybe this is a good excuse to skip Telluride and take a second trip to my other favorite ski area - Jackson Hole
Posted by: Fred | Jul 17, 2007 12:02:38 PM
Sorry, but Sam you're an 18 year old idiot
and
Scott, how do you know? You know them personally? I'm calling you on your bullshit.
PEACE
Posted by: Mary, Please | Jul 17, 2007 12:31:56 PM
I think it's hilarious and that's it's a sign of the times and growing acceptance. and for the people that say it's absurd and tantamount to "white pride" your defeating your own arguments. People should be proud of themselves and their past, yes even if they are white, it's no more ridiculous than black pride, homo pride, or any of those, regardless of the KKK.
Posted by: Tim | Jul 17, 2007 12:40:03 PM
If anything, this post has shown that a person is smart, people are dumb. Joe, Time, Scott, etc., those that say this is "funny", well, you're dumb. Plain and simple. Dumb as shit. Keep laughing, 'cause as someone else wrote, they are laughing AT you, not WITH you. (dumba$$es).
Posted by: Person | Jul 17, 2007 1:09:50 PM
I was indeed disgusted with this float appearing in our parade here in Telluride. But what concerned me more was a letter that appeared in our paper in response to mine (and was not included in the coverage above). So I have included it below for you all to read. Even more upsetting was the amount of people who told me they agreed with this hateful woman...
"Walking the straight line"
Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:56 PM CDT
Telluride Daily Planet
Dear Editor,
I want to question all of those who have concern over the Straight Pride Float. Though I was not part of the creation or participation, I thought that it was a great idea (joke or not).
In a town such as Telluride, where (and I quote Mr. Hintermeister) “Telluride is perceived by many to be a haven for understanding, giving, and foresight,” why is celebrating “the norm” looked down upon?
My heterosexuality is not celebrated everyday of the year, it is only expected. Mr. Hintermeister called the float a “distasteful display,” where is the foresight in that? Where is the understanding that we are all equal, regardless of who we may lie in bed with? Why should it be acceptable for a minority float and not a majority float?
It makes no sense that I, along with every other heterosexual, should not be allowed to show pride in my lifestyle. Do we now live in a town where only minorities are allowed to celebrate their beliefs? On a day in which we are celebrating our freedom to be who we want and believe in what we want, being straight (and promoting it) is a “hurtful and disgusting” act.
Seriously, get over it.
I am “over the rainbow.” I do not think that anyone should receive preferential treatment because they are a minority. Work hard, pay your taxes, earn the respect of the community, and live as a decent person. Gay, bi, trani, or straight — in this town there are very few that are persecuted for there beliefs, until now.
Let it be known, it is not OK to be a straight male or female in Telluride (“the haven for understanding, giving, and foresight”) and be proud to show it. You are only understood if you are a minority and do not fit inside the box of what the majority of Americans are.
Let it be known that this town claims to be accepting, but only when it is convenient or looks good on a political poster. Telluride and some of its residents biggest concerns are how the community looks to an outsider (note the outsiders gave very little to the Valley Floor) and working on becoming the poster child for acceptance and tolerance.
I never thought that this would be made into such a big deal and I am shocked that members of this tolerant and accepting town have turned their backs on the community that has populated it year after year.
Whitney Chapman
Posted by: Matt | Jul 17, 2007 3:36:56 PM
I can't believe how many hits I got from my post.
Listen kids, humor is humor and it's quite subjective. Because this parade may have hit a wrong note for some of you doesn't mean the marchers were wrong to attempt an off-beat brand of humor. Part of the problem with the movement to be politically correct is the idea that people have a right to have their "feelings" protected - they don't, no one does.
I guess having the mirror turned around on us hits a little too close to some.
Posted by: Shane | Jul 17, 2007 6:03:21 PM
JONATHON says:
"Look, I can take a joke. I..."
Wait! Stop right there. Correction: No, you clearly cannot.
Alright. Proceed.
"...I can laugh at homophobic humor the likes of "In Living Color"..."
Stop!
Really? Because that was very homophobic humor.
Are you sure you don't mean to say instead that you've replaced whatever identity you were born into with a set of external social doctrines which dictate for to you when you can be human and when you must not be, the upshot being that you hang yourself from a heirarchy in which you must not tollerate gay jokes from these people, while you must laugh along nervously with gay jokes from these other people, because they're black and part of the deal is that "racist" trumps "homophobic"?
Oddly enough that's just what I figured.
Posted by: Jummy | Jul 17, 2007 8:01:39 PM
"It was intended to be funny, biting humor..." -- sure, let's have a "white pride" parade -- just as a joke ofcourse.
Posted by: markthomas212 | Jul 17, 2007 8:37:01 PM
Just based on the article and photo, I dont see this as an attack. Its a parody and looks pretty funny. As though its emphasizing the point of gay pride by showing the redundancy of straight pride. Its like having a support group for rich, white men. They wouldn't need one so the idea is laughable. This is just comedy.
Posted by: Dave | Jul 17, 2007 9:20:31 PM
I think everyone needs to read Matt's comment (and letter posted) five comments above. It is a letter by a heterosexual woman in Telluride who supports the "Straight Pride" parade and references the many residents of the town comments about their support of her opinion.
This wasn't meant to be a joke, and if you don't understand that fact now, than you never will. They were/are laughing at us everyone, not WITH us.
(so sad)
Posted by: Cory | Jul 17, 2007 9:52:29 PM
Amen Cory, amen...
Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Jul 17, 2007 10:33:21 PM
Matt, you need to have Andy post that letter as its own section. People need to see the truth about this, as more than a few commentators on Towleroad think this is all a joke and shouldn't be taken seriously. That letter is VERY revealing as to the true actions of Telluride's residents (that and the fact it won second place in a Fourth of July parade). How can anyone argue with that...
Amen Cory and Robert and Matt, Amen...
Posted by: Jase | Jul 17, 2007 11:40:41 PM
Buncha prissy queens. Pride parades over the top? Were you AT the last SF pride? Oh my god yawn. So much political crap (supes trying to look good for the voters), not enough assless chaps. Or is that assful? I like chaps on a nice full ass.
"that way they'll see that we're just like them, that we are live and work and love just like they do."
Eww. I am NOT "just like" them, I don't live and work like most of them, and I certainly do not love "just like" they do.
Most straight people in this country are fairly sex negative. Their problem isn't just that we're gay, it's with any human that doesn't tow that line.
Hmm, sounds like some people here really do live and love "just like" that. And of course have a problem with those who won't.
Posted by: Josh | Jul 22, 2007 5:39:25 AM
It's satire and satire happens to be offensive. It wasn't pointed at an individual person and nobody was personally harmed or defamed.
Posted by: Slushy | Jul 8, 2008 1:45:33 AM
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