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GAY GAMES VENUE DISPUTE
Sydney Star Observer ^
| 4-5-2006
| Ian Gould
Posted on 04/05/2006 2:40:02 PM PDT by toddlintown
Weeks after rejecting accusations their event posed an HIV risk, Chicago Gay Games organisers are facing fresh criticism from conservatives – this time over the staging of a rowing event.
Gay Games officials want to hold their rowing competition in Crystal Lake, a small community about 80 kilometres from Chicago.
But some Crystal Lake residents – who call their area a “G-rated place” with a “family-values kind of atmosphere” – have other ideas.
(Excerpt) Read more at ssonet.com.au ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 42yearlifeexpectancy; chicago; gayolympics; homosexuals
OK. Start with the pole-vaulting jokes.
To: toddlintown
Ah, I remember these guys. I believe the javelin jokes (limp wrists) were pretty funny, too.
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:41:20 PM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: toddlintown
You should see the wheelbarrow race.
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posted on
04/05/2006 3:39:00 PM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: toddlintown
Or the 100 meter Swish! Olympic Hairstyling?
To: toddlintown
I would, but I don't feel very pretty today.
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posted on
04/05/2006 4:16:51 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: Reaganesque
I've heard that the Women's Diving and Breaststroke competitions are really something else.
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posted on
04/05/2006 4:29:03 PM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: toddlintown
In case no one has noticed, Chicago's Eastern boundary is Lake Michigan. The 5th largest fresh water lake in the world. if you can't have a boat race in Chicago you aren't trying. Chicago also has an abundance of rivers and parks that support water sports. Methinks that the GP'ers may feel a bit intimidated by the God fearing citizens of Chicago.
"HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders." (Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916.)
Hence, they will try to impose their life style on the less fearsome denizens who live away from the City of their convention.
Crystal Lake is over 50 miles away from Downtown Chicago. If the GP'ers truly believe in their cause they will take it to the streets and parks and lakes in Chicago, and see how brave they are.
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posted on
04/05/2006 4:55:16 PM PDT
by
joem15
(If less is more, then what is plenty?)
To: joem15
"Methinks that the GP'ers may feel a bit intimidated by the God fearing citizens of Chicago."
Chicago holds one of the biggest Gay Pride parades in the country every year. Local politicians all make appearances in the parade, including the mayor. It's held in the so-called "Boystown" on north Halsted where gay clubs abound.
The Chicago you're thinking of disappeared at least 50 years ago.
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posted on
04/05/2006 5:25:30 PM PDT
by
toddlintown
(Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
To: RightWingAtheist; potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; Grampa Dave; Interesting Times; dixiechick2000; ..
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posted on
04/05/2006 11:00:28 PM PDT
by
devolve
( upload to free imagehosts Photobucket & Imagecave)
To: devolve
To: devolve
One belies the other, huh?
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posted on
04/06/2006 3:40:59 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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