Dear people who gay all the thgs,Today is the first day of "Pri Month." You leftists know exactly what "Pri Month" is, but there are others readg this open letter who might not be aware. I beg your dulgence for a few you have any faiary wh "pri" you might be un...
Contents:
- DEAR LEFTISTS: ACTUALLY, NO, BEG GAY IS NOTHG TO BE 'PROUD' OF...
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- WHY I'M NOT PROUD OF BEG GAY
- MEET DR. JSE EHRENFELD: A JEWISH VETERAN, AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF THE AMA
- WHY ARE PEOPLE PROUD TO BE GAY
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
DEAR LEFTISTS: ACTUALLY, NO, BEG GAY IS NOTHG TO BE 'PROUD' OF...
Pri Month is jt gayer than ual, but the effort to celebrate somethg unworthy of celebratn is one battle your war (read Dear Hollywood: Stop Gayg All the Thgs, Especially Straight Characters... ”In March, some men will cry the need for an Internatnal Women’s Day, celebrated on the is Pri Month, a time to reflect on and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer history.
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HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
The slg back of hard-earned rights and protectns of LGBTQ people, particularly transgenr people, is difficult to when straight people ask why there is a need for gay pri or wonr why there aren’t straight pri celebratns, feels a lot like they are sayg ntributns by LGBTQ people — a mory group that fac nstant adversy — are simply not worthy of regnn. Most people the LGBTQ+ muny know om experience that acceptg your sexualy will lead to your beg a happier, more open this gui, the term gay has been ed to clu all forms of non-heterosexual attractn, whether that be people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise not straight.
WHY I'M NOT PROUD OF BEG GAY
Beg gay do not necsarily make you any ls mascule or feme, and there is no need or prsure to nform to stereotyp that don't feel right to you - bee you are who you are. The laws the Bible were maly for health purpos - shunng homosexualy is right next to not gettg tattoos, not eatg pork, and not wearg mixed lens, but you n bet your bottom dollar all your neighbors do those thgs. If you are still beg supported by parents whom you are que sure would disown you for beg gay, may be pnt to wa to tell them until you are pennt.
You may regret the acceptance of your orientatn the future, pecially if you're a part of the world where the gay muny is beg prosecuted by a specific culture. Article SummaryXIf you stggle wh acceptg your attractn to the same sex, know that beg gay is pletely normal and you n be proud of who you are by fdg support and embracg your dividualy. I’m spired to engage this lguistic activy bee the annual "Pri Week" for gays and lbians is soon at hand, and I’m particularly terted knowg what is, exactly, that I’m supposed to be proud the followg two OED fns, for example, pri is portrayed as beg herently antisocial, a very, very bad thg: pri n.
MEET DR. JSE EHRENFELD: A JEWISH VETERAN, AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF THE AMA
It’s not terribly surprisg, this light, that dividuals who are more prone to exhibg hubristic pri tend also to be more disagreeable, nrotic, narcissistic, are ls nscient and have a history of poor relatnships and mental health when to the exprsn "gay pri, " hubristic pri don’t seem to be implied.
WHY ARE PEOPLE PROUD TO BE GAY
I’ve no doubt that some gays and lbians probably do believe, for some odd postmornist reason or another, that they are herently superr to straights. But gay or straight, anyone who actually believ that social stat n be lculated on the basis of what their genals unnscly rpond to should be dismissed jt as swiftly as those who believe that God has a sore spot for pri. Eher we elect to see ourselv as beg "born this way" and not of our own makg, which would lim our sense of pri to the hubristic subtype ("I’m better than you bee I’m gay"), or we mt subm to the tellectually impaired among and ntend that we’ve chosen this “liftyle” for some mendable reason.
I’m no more proud of beg gay than I am of beg Csian, of havg type I diabet, of beg 5'7"—okay, heels—or of havg abnormally stocky hands for a man my size.
But, and here’s the real kicker, so listen up, the absence of pri is not is, alas, at least one OED fn that perhaps reflects the tend age of the exprsn "gay pri" and that seems to ronate wh s nnotatns.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
I n almost get on board wh this variatn of the term when ’s applied to "gay pri"—I know my gay history, Pri Week’s nnectns to the Stonewall Rts of June, 1969, I know my value as a human beg, and I’ve also had a genero slice of antigay bigotry directed at me—right at my forehead, fact. ) I suppose the only problem that I have wh this form of "gay pri"—and ’s substantially ls of a ncern than the other two forms, I should add—is rts on the assumptn of a largely mythil, llective gay inty. In my everyday life, and unls you brg up, beg gay is about as salient to my self-ncept as is my havg brown hair or drivg a Honda; I don’t feel—wa for the gasps—a particular affy wh other gay people jt bee they’re gay.
But anythg else, well, there jt simply aren’t any shared psychologil tras that brg together some trsic the one hand, I unrstand the need for fg supportive allianc wh other gays and lbians, for exertg change through llaborative, anized effort and by sheer strength numbers. Our very need to even have "gay pri, " to celebrate "Pri Week" through ma street paras ftooned wh drag queens, leather daddi, and dyk on bik, is such a pathetic reflectn of what we thk we should and shouldn’t be proud of as human begs that I’m aaid I jt n’t mter up the requise "gay pri" to feel this, I’ll be on the sil watchg the floats and all the pretty boys go by, marvelg and salivatg at the lurid excs that vigorate the very same stereotyp that we spend the rt of the year fightg agast. ”Advertisement - Contue Readg Below5 Glo Butler, Comedian Bridget Badore“What pri means to me is a celebratn of all of our gay and trans anctors that have fought for any of to walk the streets and even have an inty.
Gettg back to Hoton's song, I thk is so praised wh the gay muny not jt bee of the inic late diva herself, but bee of what says: 'I need a man who’ll take a chance, on a love that burns hot enough to last/I wanna dance wh somebody/feel the heat wh somebody who lov me.