Posted on 05/25/2005 1:57:48 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A Yellowknife city councillor calls plans to hold a Heterosexual Day as well as Gay Pride Day an embarrassment to the city.
Councillors learned at Tuesday night's council meeting that the mayor had proclaimed June 10 as Gay Pride Day.
The mayor then proclaimed June 9 Heterosexual Day, following a proposal from Coun. Alan Woytuik.
Coun. Kevin O'Reilly called the move an embarrassment to the city and a mockery of a legitimate request.
Woytuik defended the proclamation, saying the community should recognize heterosexuals and homosexuals.
"I feel that recognizing the contributions of heterosexuals is just as legitimate as recognizing the contributions of gay and lesbian communities, so I don't feel there's any reason for anyone to object to this particular proclamation."
Gay and lesbian groups will celebrate
"We thought every day was heterosexual day," said Don Babey of OutNorth, a group that represents Yellowknife gays and lesbians and that made the initial request for Gay Pride Day."
"Will the city partner Black History Month in February with White Heritage Month later in the year?" Babey asked.
"Will the days and weeks marking physical ailments, such as heart disease and strokes, be paired with an equal number of days that will celebrate good health?"
Babey says his group will celebrate Gay Pride Day by passing out cake in front of Yellowknife's post office.
"Tell us where Heterosexual Day will be celebrated, and we'll be there," he said.
Actually, I thought Yellowknife was more of the "Bestialist Day" type.
Holy cow. A queer activist equating homosexual behavior with disease?
Isn't that some kind of miracle?
I think the pedophiles are going to be offended at their prejudicial exclusion. :)
Will that be fruit-cake?
Yellowknife seems like the type of place that simply wants to celebrate, whatever the case may be. Homosexual Day, Heterosexual Day, hey why not Bisexual Day and cover all the bases? You could even go one further and have a Nonsexual Day for the people who have no sex drive.
"I think the pedophiles are going to be offended at their prejudicial exclusion. :)"
What about bi-sexual pride day? Or Necrophilia pride day? Or how bout bestiality pride day? Hell why don't we have a pride day for any perverted whim?
[Yeah, I know it's junk science but what the hey. . . ]
(Why a week? They need extra time to figure out the "details.")
“We’ll do anything to keep warm up here, eh?”
Out in the middle of Canada someplace not too far from the Arctic Circle, and they're debating this stuff. Sheesh.
Devil's food I imagine.
Exactly. Try to remember the coldest place you've ever been in your life, and then realize that Yellowknife is at least 1,000 miles north of there.
OMG, that's the line my parents used when, in the midst of Mother's Day and Father's Day, I asked them, "so when is children's day?"
"Every day is Children's Day," they always said.
Canada ping... :)
"Coun. Kevin O'Reilly called the move an embarrassment to the city and a mockery"
He's right on both ideas.
Haha! That's funny. I remember in the early 70's, my father asking me as a little girl what I thought of "women's lib". I told him I planned start "kids' lib" because we needed rights too. I don't remember him responding, though, just sitting there trying not to laugh.
Great! I am going to go there and march in Hetrosexual Pride Day!
Say it once, say it loud - "I'm straight and I'm Proud!"
How about "Shut the hell up about your sex life pride day?"
LOL! You were a prophet. :)
We must be around the same age because I remember talking to my dad about "women's lib" and the Equal Rights Amendment.
At first I was for it, but then he told me it would lead to co-ed bathrooms. I was a young teenager, and that convinced me. :)
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