Posted on 07/25/2006 7:51:01 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Athletically speaking, Gay Games VII was a joke. Everybody knows true competition shouldn't include hefty figure skaters, any kind of line dancing or games best played with a beer in your hand. More than winning medals and breaking records, Gay Games participants talked of the importance of participating, having fun, being "out and proud," making strides toward a more accepting America and all that jazz.
All around Chicagoland, guys kissed guys in the on-deck circle. Girls kissed girls between billiard matches. They didn't feel afraid or scared or judged.
And in those eight days of reprieve -- something special happened to a couple of guys from a tiny farm town in central Indiana.
During the opening ceremonies, Lee and Joe -- volunteer firefighters from a town of 600 -- hugged each other on the wide concourse behind the Soldier Field seats.
For Joe, it was this special moment or never. He gathered together all his courage and asked Lee, "Will you marry me?"
He slid a ring off his delicate ring finger, squeezed it on Lee's giant pinky, cutting off all circulation. They looked at each other and cried, big happy tears. Lee said, "Yes."
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perverse young love at that.
Where is the barf alert?
Once, it was "the love that dare not speak its name." Now, its "the love that won't shut the hell up."
"guys kissed guys in the on-deck circle. Girls kissed girls between billiard matches. They didn't feel afraid or scared or judged."
Where do you start with this type of stupidity?
You know what? At my ripe old age I don't even like to see two heteros making out in public. I have gay relatives but they don't make out or even hold hands in front of us.
...and they moved to New England and ate Johnny Cakes every morning.
This is where AIDS comes from. Used to be called GRID. Gay Related Immune Disorder
This is disgusting.
Why does one feel the need to be "out and proud" about aberrant behavior. After all, homosexuals comprise only about 2% of the population. Isn't that, by definition, abnormal behavior? To me, this is like saying, "By God, I'm proud to be an arsonist!"
Viva Heteros!
You can keep your coney islands, we like ours Chicago style.
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You are SO right!
Awwwwwww. "Fisting Firemen" meets "Care Bears."
And in those eight days of reprieve -- something special happened to a couple of guys from a tiny farm town in central Indiana.
And in that prison in Turkey, something magical happened between Billy Hayes and his cellmate ...
During the opening ceremonies, Lee and Joe -- volunteer firefighters from a town of 600 -- hugged each other on the wide concourse behind the Soldier Field seats.
For Joe, it was this special moment or never. He gathered together all his courage and asked Lee, "Will you marry me?" He slid a ring off his delicate ring finger, squeezed it on Lee's giant pinky, cutting off all circulation. They looked at each other and cried, big happy tears. Lee said, "Yes."
I'm sorry. I'm speechless. I can't lampoon something this treacly sentimental. This is a pardoy of itself, and nothing I can add will make it any more hilarious.
This writer should be rushed to the hospital and treated for an overdose of bathos.
"Personally what these folks do behind closed doors is their business not mine."
Like 50sDad pointed out, that USED to be what they wanted. "Keeper your nose out of our bedroom!". Fair enough.
Then they wanted "tolerance". "We are just like everybody else!"
Then it started getting sinister. Forced acceptance of their behaviors as normal. "If you don't like what I do with my willie you are a homophobe!" (made-up word) "You are the one who has the problem!"
Now we are acutally supposed to embrace them and their sick sex fetishes that are thrown in our faces at every turn. They demand special priviledge and militantly attack those who disagree with them.
I wish they would get the hell back in the closet.
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