Pride Flags... what are your thoughts?

[princealbertofb]

Go, go, go, my dear Wadino.... mile:

[Zet]

The only thing I dislike about the pride flag, is that it's almost a copy of the Incan Wiphala (Inca flag)


That's a Wiphala


Is a pride flag

You can easily mistake that the city of Cusco is incredibly gay friendly, when they are just waving it's own flag
("The biggest differences is that the gay flag was created in 1972 in San Francisco, U.S. with 6 colors, while the Andean flag is thousands of years old and includes 7 colors." - Wiki)

[princealbertofb]

I've this friend, who is one of the very few straight male friends that I have. When I came out, I lost a lot of friends and he doesn't support gay rights and he doesn't really accept homosexuality either, but he still stayed by my side and I think he's trying to understand. One time we happened to talk about gay parades and his point was that gay people may think that with these pride parades they are making straights to accept and to think about equality, but actually we're just angering them. He was like "when you know perfectly well that most straights will not accept it and you're still going around flaunting over the whole town how much you want to be accepted, then don't cry when you're bullied or beaten up, because that is of your own doing."

Even as a gay man I can see a sense in his words.

How insecure this man must be to think that it's ok to bully people for being gay or anything else... I think our societies are trying to clean up their act about bullying and treating people differently because of perceived differences. This is just about as acceptable a way of thinking as those men who justify RAPE because ''that girl / boy was asking for it, wearing too short a skirt / behaving too effeminately" or whatever.

Bullying, like rape is NOT ACCEPTABLE, period! And any man thinking that way needs to review his sense of civility ad knowledge of the law.

[princealbertofb]

I understand this completely and would never judge or criticize someone on such a decision. I am fortunate that my environment is relatively accepting. I live in little college town in the middle of a big a rednecky countryside, so it's a really strange mix; it's like a tight knit little freckle of a progressive community sitting on a giant ass cheek of bigotry and ignorance. Good thing for me, I don't wander outside of the freckle all that often. So that being said, as previously stated, I have no room to criticize or judge others who are in worse or dangerous situations.

Sometimes the so-called rednecks and hicks can surprise us... See The Doctor's Wife (2011) to see how being open about being gay can make a difference.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1921113/

[PenguinPecker]

My thoughts on the pride flag?
It's colourful! I like it!

[Ekwarph]

I'm proud to be white, I descend from Aryans. I doubt people would be too happy if I waved my pride at being Aryan and White all over the place, or wore my armband to announce to other National Socialists my leanings which would make it far, far easier for me in this world of people who for some odd reason don't like National Socialism.





Are you offended or would you be offended to have Nazism rubbed in your face when you yourself most likely disagree with the tenants of a Master White Race that must rule the world by force if necessary?

If yes, then consider that there are people who are terrified that the Homosexual Agenda is seeking to convert their innocent/helpless children to homosexuality and that all homosexuals go to Hell and they don't want their babies going to hell.

Both LGBT and Nazis have dark connotations for people. While in the case of National Socialists there is a real history of influences which are slightly negative, Fortunately there is no history to demonstrate that there is a Gay Agenda..... Oops... perhaps there is.... Gay pride, gays demanding more and more rights, special privileges in the the form of hate crime bills... There is just enough 'slightly off' that there is good reason to fear the Rainbow Flag and the potentials it carries.



This is a symbol of:

1. Slavery

2. Freedom from a Federal Union http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/FLAG/co...teflag.htm

Flags are symbols, the USA flag is a symbol of tyranny, hatred and bombed out buildings and murdered babies... In the Middle East. Other places its a symbol of Liberty and Freedom...

While the Rainbow flag symbolizes one thing to you, it symbolized other things to other people.

Like it or not their ideals and philosophies are as valid as yours. Yes I know, you don't like that, but they don't like yours either.

Yeah, sure it's about the same...when you do anal sex, you kill at least 6 million spermatozoids that would not become a human