Your weekend assignment, because it is a long one,
and
HAPPYPRIDE!!
Rainbows busting out all over the US and world as the glbt's take to the street in vast numbers. Not here in Rochester or anything, cause the powers that be figure that any committed queens will be going over to Toronto or down to NYC, ours is later in the Summer .
Toronto city hall, where Neil and I were married ,
and the ESB, all rainbowie
SO, this is a lesson for you breeder readers, or any passing young gays who do not know their own history.
First let's set the scene. Things seem good now, well, better now..... What with the POTUS coming out in favor of Marriage Equality, BUT - just in the past blink of an eye, in my life time - things were MUCH different.
First watching assignment :
First aired by CBS - actual broadcast television , March 7, 1967 - with the venerable Mike Wallace. This bad boy is a CHORE to get through, seriously, even as high camp it is a bit much. So, if you need to skip parts of just skim, that is fine.
OK - you made it through that AND you think much less of me , fine.
Or so you would think from the size of the headline over at Mattydrudge.
GAY ACTIVISTS INVITED TO THE WH " FLIP OFF " REAGAN
here is the photo that is exploding all over the right wing interwebs
No mention of the the guy and George Bush - and he seems to be giving the thumbs up....
Backstory: From " The Philly Post " [ no idea ]
Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception. There, they danced to the sounds of a Marine Corps band; they dined on crab cakes and canapés; they hand-delivered letters from concerned citizens like this 18-year old who has had four people close to him gunned down, and noted rhyming raconteur CA Conrad; and some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Ronald Reagan the middle finger. “It’s not a gesture that I would use in the White House when representing our city and our community,” opines Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal (center), who opted for a sarcastic thumbs-up pose in front of the portrait of George W. Bush over the more vulgar one demonstrated by his Reagan-loathing peers, Matthew “Matty” Hart (left), the national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress, and self-taught photographer turned toast-of-the-town Zoe Strauss (right). ( the rest )
OK, so two people invited to the White House during Gay Pride week , give Ronnie the flying salute.... two people, who then posted on Facebook, etc, what people do now, and it is HORRIBLE, END OF HE WORLD HORRIBLE!
Why o why o why are we on the left so bad at this???
Do you know this little story, the one about the Montana GOP Outhouse ?
"At Saturday’s convention in Missoula, Montana, a few convention-goers set up outside with an outhouse labeled “Obama’s Presidential Library.” But that wasn’t the most outrageous part. According to the Missoulian, the outhouse was also decorated in sexism, birtherism, and implicit threats:
The outhouse was painted to look as though it had been riddled by bullets.
Inside, a fake birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama made reference to the disproven controversy over the president’s origins. It was stamped “Bull––.” A graffito advised “For a Good Time call 800-Michelle (crossed out), Hillary (crossed out) and Pelosi (circled in red.)”
This was only a couple of weeks ago, don't you remember the full throttle outrage coming from the left leaning main stream media ???
Or this gem that was sent out by many more than two elected GOP officials
or this , VERY respectfully of the President photograph that was seen at COUNTLESS tea party rallies....
You must remember how outraged everyone was about that.....
