Posted on 12/12/2013 5:59:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Southern California city granted a private group a permit Wednesday night to hold a Vietnamese new year’s parade, despite objections over its exclusion of the community’s gay and lesbian residents.
Members of a gay and lesbian group pleaded with the Westminster City Council to deny the permit to the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California at a meeting, but the vote to grant it was unanimous. …
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So, the Gay Vietnamese are upset because they can’t come out and make spectacles of themselves, so they want the city to deny the permit... and here the council is all upset because it “makes it look like we discriminate”.
Wow... Gay Tet Offensive.
In all fairness, homosexuals should not get a free pass to impose themselves on other people’s events. That is, a parade about Vietnamese is *about* the Vietnamese, not homosexuals.
It is in no way “homophobic” to do things that have nothing to do with homosexuality, without giving homosexuals an opportunity to use your event to tout their homosexuality.
When I hear about Vietnamese New Year, I think of many things, from the 1968 Tet Offensive to shopping in a Vietnamese store on a holiday (to get special ingredients for my Filipino wife’s cooking). Queers are not on the list of things I think about.
Homophobic is a pretend tag. I don’t give a cr** what they do. Just don’t make me a participant in your agenda. You’re a bunch of perverts AND YOU KNOW IT.
When I think of Vietnamese “folks”, I think nail salons. They own quite a few that I have been to over the years, and they are owned by men. Great service too-but funny English: “No checks taken-thank you for your cooperations”. “Ask us about specials we give to you!”...
Also, a lot of Vietnamese in my former area (CT/MA) are Catholics with a nod to Buddha; they wear crucifixes but have a Buddha statue in their salon which has fruit offerings around it.
So homo-gay-queer-queens is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of them-it isn’t even on the list.
It wasn’t clear that the “community” was part of the Vietnamese community or part of the “LGBT community.”
“So homo-gay-queer-queens is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of them-it isn’t even on the list.”
Same here. I’m not sure but isn’t Buddhism against homosexuality as well?
How would the homosexuals like it, if straight people tried to force their way into the homosexual pride parades??? It sounds so bizarre to me, that an event which has nothing to do with homosexuality or sex orientation was targeted by these activists.
Quite right, I forgot about the nail salons and my wife goes to them all the time. But even there Vietnamese homosexuals do not come to mind.
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