This is a formal reply to those readers who don't get the Gay Pride moteif of yesterday's blog
I get what you say and why you say it..but your comments, to me were ill judged and rather offensive
I will endeavour to explain just why
The excesses of some gay flag wavers , to many seem irrelative. I know that
I am not particularly a fan of the sight of a sequinned budgie smuggler snake hipped twink flouncing atop a float myself but as a gay middle aged man whose sexuality is probably the least interesting thing about me, I will always fight for the right for that twink to wave his tush and raise his rainbow flag in anyone's face
Straight people will never understand how it feels to be gay
Christ it was only 50 years or so ago since homosexuality was made legal for men over 21in this country .
Legal !!!!
Illegal meant wrong, against the law, dirty, bad, terrible ............deviant ......
All the building bricks for negativity and prejudice and being hated
All the building bricks for guilt and shame and self loathing too
I grew up in the 1980s
Gays were hated then. AIDS was a monster avenger
And still over the 60s, 70s , and 80s men and women fought for equality and a chance to be viewed to be as normal as you straights
They fought long and hard
Straights , as I recall were never spat at in the street for holding the hand of a person they loved ( or even just liked)
Straights could marry the person they loved
And as many did so, the World and his wife would applaud
You straights will never know the trauma of comming out
The constant fear of rejection a gay child experiences when he knows he is different
The low level abuse , snide comments , put downs and stupidity of people fearful of something so alien they have to attack it
You will never know, like I don't, the true struggles of those brave souls that fought the system only a generation ago now
Souls that helped to eventually turn the tide on bigotry and hatred even though it's never really been totally eradicated
So dearhearts , please take it from me that it's fine for that sequinned arsed twink to have his excessive gay pride dances!!!
And it's fine for me to wear my occasional gay pride t shirt and post a blog about feeling all gay
I am proud to be gay , I'm proud to now have those rights straights have have enjoyed for ever !!!
I don't do it often
Like I said , being gay is not one of my most interesting facets
But when I do, it is the RIGHT thing for me as a gay man to do
Please instead of pouting with a narrow minded "We straights never hold straight pride tight arsed pout!"
Just try seeing things from another's perspective
If you can't , well then I would prefer that you didn't follow Going Gently
with its rainbow warts and all
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