They don’t want to support veterans like my father and uncle,..He had a queer father AND A QUEER UNCLE? How the Hell does that family continue?
>>But MassEquality, the gay advocacy group that was offered a chance to march under its banner, felt that wasn’t good enough; instead it demanded that its delegation could declare its sexuality on banners and T-shirts. Hey folks, who you love, who you sleep with, who you want to spend your life with: Who cares? You say it’s no one’s business, then insist on making it everyone’s business by, to borrow a chant from Queer Nation, telling a captive audience, “We’re here! We’re queer! Get used to it!”
>>Remember?
>> Perhaps you also remember how Act Up, a kindred spirit to Queer Nation, expressed its sentiments by throwing condoms at newly ordained priests and their families outside Holy Cross Cathedral. We should get used to that? Please. Those condom-tossing reprobates who claimed they were representing homosexuality were not unlike the hooligans who believe the way to represent being Irish is to vomit in Andrew Square.
An old adage tells us we don’t have to go to every fight we’re invited to, but that’s what MassEquality was itching to do, spoiling for a fight, intentionally making itself the skunk at the lawn party.
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>>There’s a letter in the files here from a reader named Richard, then 47, who sent it in the aftermath of the 1997 Gay Pride Parade, which featured a man on stilts wearing a loin cloth that he kept lifting to show he was wearing nothing else, and another man garbed in only a net body stocking.
“My parents always knew I was gay,” he wrote, “but it’s taken me years to let the rest of the family know, including two aunts we knew would be very upset. Well, I was sitting with them the night of the parade, watching TV coverage of it, when one of them asked, ‘Are these your new friends, Richard?’
“That hurt. Those marchers did not represent my homosexuality, my pride, or my friends’ pride.”
No, no, no. This article must be very badly written. Every other post on here has misunderstood it.
A. Veterans are the parade organizers.
B. The parade organizers do not want contentious political issues in the parade; hence, no gay-rights groups are allowed to march. If a veteran or anyone else is gay, they can march -- just not under a banner of supporting gay rights.
C. Sam Adams Beer (Boston Beer Company) pulled its financial sponsorship because the veterans would not allow gay-rights marchers.
D. The bar owner, whose father and uncle are veterans (and presumably are not gay), said they would no longer carry Sam Adams Beer because the Sam Adams brewery is refusing to support a parade organized by veterans.