Posted on 10/22/2005 11:46:53 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
Hurricane postpones another homosexual party Theme for Florida Keys Fantasy Fest: 'Freaks, Geeks, and Goddesses'
Wild costumes and plenty of exposed skin are common at the annual Fantasy Fest in Key West, Fla.
For the second time this year, an Atlantic hurricane is forcing the postponement of a popular homosexual event filled with "unthinkable debauchery."
The annual Fantasy Fest in Key West, Fla., had been slated to kick off today, but the threat of Hurricane Wilma is putting a damper on the festivities, delaying events until after the storm passes.
"We've never had a hurricane interfere with Fantasy Fest, at least as long as I've been here," Harold Wheeler, director of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council for the past 10 years told the Key West Citizen. "In fact, it's just the opposite – Fantasy Fest has always been there to open up our season."
Participant at 2000 Fantasy Fest in Key West, Fla.
According to its official website, "The 27th Fantasy Fest 'Freaks, Geeks & Goddesses' offers another nutcake romp through the realms of the ridiculous and will not back down in the face of a hurricane. ... Well, maybe we'll have to push it back a few days, but fear not! Fantasy Fest events will still rock the island, just packed into six days instead of 10."
For those not familiar with the perennial party in the week leading up to Halloween, the Associated Press describes it this way:
Fantasy Fest, which began in 1979 as a small food fair and parade, is a huge event in the nation's gay community (not that there aren't plenty of straights who also come for the debauchery). There are AIDS fundraisers, drag queen beauty contests, costume parties, lots of drinking and women wearing nothing but paint from the waist up. The Miami New Times calls it a "time for parades, beads, wild costumes, and unthinkable debauchery ... packed with plenty of scary, silly, and downright naughty parties."
As WorldNetDaily previously reported, another homosexual festival, Southern Decadence, was postponed in August as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans.
Robert Baxter pushes Grand Marshal Robert Doucet Sept. 7 during the Southern Decadence Parade in Exile in Lafayette, La. (courtesy: The Daily Advertiser)
But the catastrophic damage left by Katrina did not stop homosexuals from partying, as less than a week after the disaster, while thousands of citizens were suffering from homelessness, hunger and looting in their flooded city, a group of "gays" marched down Bourbon Street in the Big Easy. A few days later, other homosexuals gathered in Lafayette, La., to hold what they called the Southern Decadence Parade in Exile.
At least one state senator has attributed this year's hurricane devastation to the hand of God punishing the U.S. for its national breaking of biblical laws.
"America has been moving away from God," said Alabama Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo. "The Lord is sending appeals to us. As harsh as it may sound, those hurricanes do say that God is real, and we have to realize sin has consequences."
Fantasy Fest is the biggest money maker for the Florida Keys, drawing up to 60,000 people who spend millions of dollars.
"People who have been poor for months wait for this week," Barbara Anderson, a local real-estate broker told AP.
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fantasy fest is not a homosexual event....i'm sure they have some parties, but the saturday nite party is absolutely a hetero type party....but there is lots of nudity, body painting, drinking, fun....lots of fun...even republicans attended....
just want you guys to be educated....
In northern latitudes, people get naked with their spouses and keep each other warm under walrus skin blankets.
fantasy fest is not a homosexual event....i'm sure they have some parties, but the saturday nite party is absolutely a hetero type party....but there is lots of nudity, body painting, drinking, fun....lots of fun...even republicans attended....
just want you guys to be educated....
when i was a child i acted as a child-when i became a man i acted like a man-even perverts grow up whether they choose to change only they can change themselves-why would anyone want to wallow in misery when they can be free
It's all Bush's fault!
He refused to pass Kyoto because Ashcroft hates fags, or something like that.
"We've never had a hurricane interfere with Fantasy Fest"
Hmmmmm?? Wasn't that pretty similar to what the people told Noah ..??
Actually, that is one of the most incredible absuridities of the lunatic fringe religious hucksters. The bible states just the opposite: That there will be wars, earthquakes, storms, etc., and they will not mean that the end is near. The end will come like a "thief in the night"; just when everyone is saying "peace." The signs will not be catyclisms, but the presence of a great abomination in the new temple of Israel (if that passage is to be taken literally, and not as a reminder of the time of the fall to the Babylonians.)
According to its official website, "The 27th Fantasy Fest 'Freaks, Geeks & Goddesses' offers another nutcake romp through the realms of the ridiculous and will not back down in the face of a hurricane. ... Well, maybe we'll have to push it back a few days, but fear not! Fantasy Fest events will still rock the island, just packed into six days instead of 10."
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I love the line, or is it the lie, "it's nobodies business what two adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom", that they used to justify to the courts their behavior.
Oh, darn! And the kids were so looking forward to it!
And I hear forest fires aren't a problem up there either.
That's just what some friends of mine said, when they arrived in Key West a day or two early of the annual Parrot Head Convention a few years ago.
That said, the freaks/geeks/goddesses (homosexuals) hold a "pride" like event. They have to make their presence known! they refuse to be ignored..
That,s sums it up
LOL
It should read:
Nature cancels another sodomy party
Key West fags are going to get blow of their lives.
You have never been on Key West at sundown...
BTTT
NC seashore and Great Smoky Mountains, SC seashore, GA seashore (Savannah after an evening thunderstorm), FL coast (Various cities on east and west coast),Biloxi, Pascagula, New Orleans, Moab (Utah), Extreme southwest Texas, Top of Pikes Peak (CO), Carlsbad Caverns when hundreds of bats rise into the pink, salmon skyline, Arches National Park, Grand Canyon (north end) and on the Navajo Reservation where the ground turns the the clouds red. I've seen the sunset in the dessert and felt the presence of God in colors that sprang forth, I've even watched the sun, looking so enormous that I remembered my prayers that evening, set in the Bahamas.
But, you have me there, I've never been on Key West when the sun went down.
Now, if you were talking of the human nightlife that stirs with the setting sun, my imagination is probably woefully inadequate :D. If you are talking of the natural beauty, I've enjoyed my recitation down memory lane and will set my sights for Key West someday.
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