Or perhaps not.

Well, the three of us really talked it out on facebook. I'm not sure that many people read the Gay Thread. Of course, lately, I think LoT would do best to just reduce itself to the Vent Thread, the Happy Thread, and the So Thread - and be done with it. :p

p'shaw!

Happy 10th Anniversary to Gay Marriage in the Netherlands.

...and the Horsemen of the apocolypse STILL haven't smote the country off the map. :rolleyes:

The methodology for the recent estimate that only 3.5% of Americans are LGBT was all wrong.


D'uh.

"It’s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or as I like to call it: ‘marriage.’ You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didn’t gay park it." - Liz Feldman

:snap:

I've brought this discussion here because it seems more appropriate here than in the Bin Laden thread.
I think that's a status you assigned to it unfairly. There is no historical basis for that equivalency.

• Homosexuals have not gone out at night in packs for decades (centuries?) with specific intention of finding a heterosexual to kill because they find their "lifestyle" disgusting and call them breeders while doing so.
• Cars full of drunk homosexuals don't ride past a heterosexual couple holding hands on the street and throw bottles at them while shouting "breeder".
• Homosexual juries don't convict heterosexuals of "crimes against nature" and quietly mutter "breeder" under their breath as they pass sentence.
• Heterosexual bar patrons have never been arrested for opposite-sex dancing, protested in the form of a riot, and had those activities reported in the newspaper the next day as an "outbreak of breedery".

The word "breeder" implies no more inherent malice than does "woman".

"I met a woman at the store."
vs.
"Crap, I'm stuck behind a woman driver."

Context & intent are everything.

I think that the term "breeders" is dismissive and rude.

Was it at the Gay Parade in SF the one time I went? Some other downtown or Civic Center rally I stumbled upon? I don't remember. What I do remember is a young gay fellow in the proceedings yelling "Breeder sh*t!" at some passing couple.