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.
It wasn’t clear that the “community” was part of the Vietnamese community or part of the “LGBT community.”
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.