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Most cities have a "Dyke March" where the women who love women take to the streets and demand equality and visibility, which they often get by going bare-chested. While the standard Pride parade is a lot of fun in any city in that it brings out charities, civil rights organizations, gay volunteer organizations, and every social group – from the gay water polo team to the lesbian quilting bee – I personally prefer something with a little bit of edge. Pride comes in many forms, and they're all contagious. If they can come to see that he's not ashamed to be himself in public, maybe they won't be ashamed of him either.
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It's easy to accept attractive, affluent, normal couples in their matching sweater vests (which seem to be a hit with both square gay men and lesbians) but it's another thing to accept a 50-year-old man who is choosing to let his rear end hang out of his leather chaps. I think those are exactly the people that the rest of mainstream culture needs to see. These are the ones that always turn up in newspaper photos and on the nightly news as some sort of condemnation of our "lifestyle choice" in the red states and just as pretty pictures on the coasts.Īctivists are always upset these party-mad zealots will turn off the straight people with their outrageousness and keep us from achieving equality. You know the ones – fleets of drag queens, dykes on bikes, and twinks gyrating in boas and glitter. The milquetoast gay activists are worried about the "front lines of the Gay Pride parade".