Entry #512929, added on 06-04-07 @ 2:10 pm EDT
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We went to Pride this weekend and it was great as usual. So many couples, so much family there. Lesbian and gay couples with their kids, their dogs, their friends. As soon as you step through those entrance gates, you step into the gay world.
Every day, we live in a straight person's world. We are minorities. We are outcasted. We are closeted. We are shamed. But at Pride, everything changes. As we walk along, talking to gay businesses, eating at gay establishments, and sitting around family, we are free. We are open. We are normal. We are the majority. All of us. Dykes, fags, leather queens, drag queens, drag kings, transgendered, black, white, Hispanic, Asian. Those with kids, those without. Those with pets, those without. You sit at a picnic table next to people you don't even know and no one leaves because "gays are sitting there". You kiss your wife and no one blinks. No one asks stupid questions, "How do you have kids if you're.. you know... one of them?"
And there were straight people. Not many, mind you but they stood out nonetheless. I am all for straight allies. God bless you people. What I don't like however is the straight groupies. Don't come just to stare at the queers. We are at home.
It was an interesting change when Michelle and I had a female passing out political petitions come talk to us. She told us about the candidate, etc. But what got me was when she had a question to ask us. She said, "I'm uh, um. I'm a uh, a um heterosexual female and..." The question wasn't really important. The hesitation in her coming out to us was. She knew she was the minority. She knew she was on our turf. We made her coming out easy, once she finally got it out, by nodding like it was an everyday occurrence. Like there was nothing to be embarrassed or uneasy about being straight. Nothing wrong with being straight. Nice to be on the other side for a change.
Gays have all dreamed at some point of it being a gay world. At Pride, it's small scale but it's real. Our world.
Peace,
Angie
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