Gay Shame: They call it Pride; Stereotypes, Decadence and Indecency Take to the Streets

Steve Yuhas

Summer in the United States takes many forms: children are off school, land-locked citizens take to the roads to escape the humidity and summer storms to cool themselves in the closest sea; mosquitoes make their annual appearance to interrupt any gathering and amusement parks make room as lines grow from the meager winter months ten-fold.  Summer never changes: families do things together and make the best they can and in a country where unemployment is ¼ that of anywhere else and where anyone who wants a job can have one – who can blame people for letting loose?  Unfortunately, there is a decadent and indecent display that gays put on every summer – only this one is not as innocuous as a dip in the ocean or posing for a picture with a cartoon mouse.

For three decades gays have been flaunting, presumably, the best they have to offer society in gay pride parades and festivals.  Leading the charge in most of them are lesbians on motorcycles who hate the idea wearing shirts so they shed them and in many cities public decency laws are ignored so that the oh so fragile Dykes on Bikes can take to the streets to lead off a parade of depraved behavior.

Included in the parade is every stereotype from the man dressed as a woman, floats with gyrating men in little more than thongs, politicians so desperate for votes that they march with this group of degenerates and men with other men on chains to represent all that is good in the world of “leather” under the banner of “gay pride.”  The parade paints for the world, and the people that gays are attempting to influence, as a group of degenerates with little on their minds except sex with the all so necessary reminder that HIV and AIDS continues to run rampant in the gay community (I can’t imagine why).

Gay activists are quick to point out to critics of gay pride who argue that pride is more akin to shame and that the parade is liberating to those who participate.  Onlookers cheer every float that goes by because they are allowed to express who they are and leave the societal norms at the door.  Isn’t that quaint – they feel better about themselves because they can be who they are during a parade that is full of degenerates (please make sure your boss doesn’t see you on the evening news).

That would be a good argument if most gays were not so desperate to be accepted by society and to be looked at as the guy next door.  What their parade and festival does is to lock in the minds of everyone who sees it or pictures of it on the news that gays can’t escape the stereotypes that they invented for themselves and punctuate them every year with a parade that features them all.

Think of a stereotype of a gay or lesbian person and you can see it in a gay parade.  For thirty years now gay parades have made their way all across the United States and across the globe and still gays are complaining about the same things, holding the same recycled signs and chanting the same old tired slogans of equality and “I’m here; I’m queer get used to it.”  Logic would say that if you’re still chanting the same things and complaining about the same issues for three decades that your leadership is a failure, but not gays – they refuse to acknowledge that their desires are rejected by the American people precisely because of their in your face attitude they take when the spotlight is on them.

Following the parade in most cities is a festival on public land; in San Diego the festival is held in the most ironic of places – Balboa Park.  It is ironic in the sense that gays and atheists believe the park to be so sacrosanct that they sued and a liberal federal judge agreed that the Boy Scouts be kicked out of it because they disagree that gays or atheists be leaders of little boys. (The irony in San Diego doesn't end there - the San Diego Pride committee has allowed two registered sex offenders to be part of the festivities, Warren Patrick Derichsweiler and Daniel Reiger are registered with the state for sex crimes they committed; now they're part of a pride parade that includes children - so one can only assume they're in charge of the Pedophile float).

Stands to reason considering that men who want to have sex with little boys would be like a kid in a candy store if he were allowed to be a troop leader and atheists have no place in an organization that has a pledge that believes that G-d exists and that boys should work to serve their G-d and country (note: it doesn’t matter what G-d).  But gays march through the gay part of town and into this holy shrine of a park to get on with what they do best: a party.

Children are brought to the gay parade and festival with their “parents” and are forced to hold up signs talking about the inequality of their family in society.  Funny that since gays cannot produce a child that people who cannot biologically have children are so hell bent on using them as props for their political message.  Abortion, on the other hand, is also well entrenched in gay parades as lesbians hold their abortion signs next to the children holding their “I love my two mommies” signs in an awkward attempt to say that gays love and want children to use as political tools, but want the right to have them sucked from their womb and discarded like last nights beer bottles.  Parades sure make strange bed-fellows.

Festival tents in the park that Boy Scouts have been ordered to leave because they dare espouse values that conflict with those of gays and atheists include booths for everything from the latest in gay sportswear to bondage tents where you can get spanked if you want to and the sale of sex toys and videos. 

Police are there, but there is no regulation of what is going on because politicians are too cowardly to accept responsibility for following the law and unfit parents drag their children through the exposition as if there was something beneficial from teaching a ten year old that bondage is an acceptable form of pleasure and that the men making out in bushes should be looked at as natural instead of criminal.

The evenings of gay pride weekend are filled with dance parties and orgies full of drugs and in San Diego all bets are off for the enforcement of the law at any of the cities gay bathhouses where unsafe sex and the transmission of HIV takes place with unbridled excitement.  In fact, so enthused are some men in catching the deadly disease that there are ads placed by “chasers” (men who want to get HIV) to have men who have the sickness to meet them at the various sex clubs to infect them (“energizers”) and they are quiet popular during gay pride. 

Ask the police or public health officials if they will enforce the law at the bathhouses and you’re told that they will be doing what they always do – announcing inspections and mingling in the crowd in full uniform (note to the police and public health: if you go to a club where people wear towels and engage in illegal activity – you have to blend in; it is like showing up to infiltrate a mosque dressed as a nun).

The fact of the matter is that gay pride should be renamed gay shame as everything about it emphasizes the stereotypes that regular, normal, people already believe of gay people.  The news will lead off with pictures of the event that will undoubtedly include the worst of the worst and because there is so much disgusting behavior many will be hospitalized for drug overdoses and become infected with HIV (intentionally or not) and end up costing more money in medical care than they paid to get into the bathhouse, nightclub or back alley where they caught it. 

Gay shame is a weekend that should be abolished and the fact that gays are in their third decade of complaining about the same things they should conclude that their “leadership” has failed them and try another tactic.

My answer is to become better Americans instead of better gays: acknowledge that you’re gay (if you want to), but don’t shove it in the face of people who really couldn’t care less what you do in the privacy of your home.  One would have thought that the sweep of anti-gay marriage initiatives would have taught gay people that Americans believe them to be engaging in decadent behavior, gays deny it then show that same behavior to the world as they march in their parade of shame down Main Street.

Perhaps if gay people examined the effects that their parties, drug use, alcohol, promiscuous sex, parades, rallies, floats and embracing of words like fag, dyke and queer had on the electorate (the same people they want to endorse their behavior and give them the privilege of marriage and adoption) they would abolish the behavior that make people think that gays cannot be trusted in the institution of marriage or in the raising of children. 

Self-examination is only demanded of straight people by gays and by conservatives by liberals; never the people who are perpetuating the stereotypes in their own parades and festivals.

As your streets are closed off this summer to make way for men in dresses and dykes on bikes along with the men in thongs contorting themselves into odd poses on floats – keep in mind that gays are doing this on their own and painting their own community with the stereotypes that they are demanding so many pretend are just slander by religious people and those “out of the mainstream.”  Remind them that you saw it in their parade, at their rally and during the time when they were in the spotlight in a festival that they created and generated for themselves and the world to see.  That won’t shut them up or stop them from complaining, but it may give them cause to think a little bit about the consequences of their behavior.

What an interesting world we live in – gays keep the stereotypes of gayness going and normal people get disciplined for endorsing them.  Typically parades and protests are meant to change minds: marches against abortion are used to stop abortion, marches against taxes are used to stop the increase of taxes, but only in the world of fags, dykes and queers are marches used to put on display the stereotypes of being gay demanding legislation against exactly the same thing: Political Science 101 – if you want someone to stop calling you a fag – stop calling yourself one first.

“Watch my parade, endorse the political positions on my signs, but forget what I’m actually doing or what I look like because if you don’t – you’re an intolerant bigot.”  Only gays could get away with that and luckily, since they’ve been doing the same thing for 30 years without success in their cause, most people in the real world understand the hypocrisy and ignore it. 

One day gays will get it too and realize that although most of us don’t participate – they’re painting all of us with a paint that will stick for a generation and it is nobody’s fault that people see it and don’t like it – except the organizers who are all of the same leftist liberal ilk who believe that they should let loose instead of take responsibility for their three decades of failure.

Steve Yuhas is a columnist and radio talk show host on KOGO AM 600 based in San Diego.  He may be reached at steve@steveyuhas.com or www.steveyuhas.com