Gay Pride Parades are being held worldwide this weekend.
Racine has already had rallies for "rights" for people who enter the US illegally, and marches for peace, and candlelight vigils, but no visible support for our gay and lesbian community.
Why not?
I would think that this cause would fit in perfectly with the mayor's agenda to attract artists and other bohemian types to save us from ourselves.
How can we expect to have two major art districts and a vigorous connecting corridor without a nod toward the alternative lifestyles that will help support these ventures?
Maybe if we hurry, we can tack on an addition to the 4th Fest parade. How about a float with a big, symbolic closet on it, with people coming out of it and waving to the crowd?
Ya have to admit, those guys are beautiful! What difference does it make? Let'em have a parade.
ReplyDeleteA Perfect Circle/Depeche Mode
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully...
So were different colours
And were different creeds
And different people
Have different needs...
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand...
I lived in New Town in Chicago for a few years. Best neighbors you'd ever want. Clean, responsible, intelligent. You'd never suspect that they are the devil incarnate and damned to hellfire forever.
ReplyDeleteWell, I am probably revealing a dark secret here, but one year at Racine's 4th of July parade, the WAS a drag queen! One of the cars from a gay bar had he rainbow flag draped over it and she was riding propped up on the back seat like all the regular beauty queens. I bust out laughing as she was cheered by people without a clue!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm??? You would probably like some pole huh Orbs?
ReplyDeleteNormally not, but since you're offering, I'll consider it, anon.
ReplyDeleteSo, tell me, why don't you guys have a parade in Racine?
Umm, there are like 5 gay people here. I'm one of them.
ReplyDeleteIve been to the gay pride parades. I dont go anymore.
I thnk the gay pride parades separate us.
I remember the drag queen in 4th of July parade a few years back.
Perhaps a float in 4th parade. There are lots of different groups re[resented there.
There's a limited number of times per year that people will ooh and ahh at the sight of mammoth farm machines zigzagging down Main St.
ReplyDeleteKK one of my favorite lyrics.. It's a great song.
ReplyDeleteI thought mamoths were extinct. They have farms of em? What do the machines do on these mamoth farms? COOL!
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting up in St.Mary's cardio-ward. Docs are making noises about bypass surgury. I've run into the opposite of Hale Bopps jury problem. I can get in here, but can't the JT blog or even the JT online news. Not that I'm missing much as they do provide a JT paper here when asked. Sucks being confined in the land of knives.
Gay pride? Bring it on. Tony the night nurse swihses in a big way, but very professional. It doesn't take a very in-tuned Gaydar to get him blipping on the screen. He's proved to be one of the better nurses I've seen over the years.
Drag queen on the fourth parade? Oh man, I need to take in that parade more often. Perfect levity for Racine
Like I said, Huck, the year I noticed the drag queen in the parade, I think no on else did! Look for the car from Jo Dee's bar, probably will have a rainbow flag on it as well, and a nicely done up beauty queen style drag queen sitting and waving.
ReplyDeletePretty sure Jo Dee's is closed, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteIt could be closed...I no longer live in Racine so I am gong by what used to be there!
ReplyDeleteI did see them sponsor a car in the 4th of July parade when I lived there.
Orbs. don't lie, you've tried it before, don't be shy guy.
ReplyDeleteYou must be the guy they mean when they talk about "anonymous sex at interstate rest stops."
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel like more of a man, or woman, or whatever you are, I'm gay. Or bi. Or whatever sexuality you consider an insult.
I hit on a woman in a gay bar once. My friend, who I was there with (or, if you're anonymous, I was having sex with), laughed and laughed. Of course, she was a he. Utterly fantastic looking. My buddy said "she" worked as a waitress at the Big Boy's (now Blue Diamond) on Durand for years.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of that tootsie pop Orbs?? Uh One, Two, Threee.....
ReplyDeleteWhy does Racine have to show more pride for those that are gay than for those that are not? Why a special,seperate parade? Why isn't celebrating independence day for all americans enough? I am not interested in having seperate parades for people that have same sex partners....why? I consider pride to be for all of us and would prefer not to seperate us by the sex of our significant other...as you are proud to be gay I am proud to be traditional-isn't america great!
ReplyDeleteJo'Dees had 4 drag queens and 2 Mr Jo'Dees in the racine 4th of july parade over 3 years. Most of the crowd did know, if the flag did not give it away, their neighbor in the parade did. BTW- Jo'Dees is still open
ReplyDeleteJo Dee's is still open and doing well.
ReplyDeleteRacine just had its first Pride Parade, organized by the Unitarian Church.
ReplyDeleteIt was on Sunday, the 40-year-anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
So, mostly in response to Carrie - a Pride March isn't sepperate. There were actually more heterosexuals there, because, and I know this might be hard to believe, we all make up the diversity of the rainbow. LGBTQISA - the a stands for ally - someone who is heterosexual but supports and affirms the existence and rights of the LGBTQIS community.
June, and particularly this weekend, commemorates stonewall. It's like asking why do we have a Fourth of July Parade? It's about independence and freedom - freedom that has not been grasped to it's full extent.
There's an LGBT Center in Racine now - check them out and show your support!