Pride 2013

[Pix]

For people who are into that sort of thing, fine, but why does gay have to come with that baggage? Why does the fact that I like men and love my partner mean I have to be ok with being constantly bombarded with events and areas that emphasis and enforce sexually charged behavior?

Nothing wrong with being bothered by those elements, however dismissing it as simply everyone there making a spectacle of themselves sounds like buying into the lies about it. There are many elements and reasons for gay pride, and the reasons you cite are just one of many, and those elements are present in other parades and marches as well. Be it a gay pride parade or Mardi Gras I'd just shrug off the parts I don't like (so therefore wouldn't be baggage to me). I would never feel compelled to take part in what I feel uncomfortable with (and I tend to have a sense of humor about it), and by that it means I focus on what I like, ignore what I don't, which means I could ignore at least most of those being a freak and still have a good time focusing on everyone else.

And if Mardi Gras offends you for all the people letting their freak flag fly then by all means stay away, but don't say everyone who goes is simply there as part of some symbolic (literal?) orgy or whatever as that's false.

[Hikari]

I would like to go to one some day
But I think I will be too busy this year . . .