Reply #35: so what? we should dress in our sunday best and choir robes?

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we're{and always have been} damned if we do and damned if we don't in the straight world.

but really -- what do you think a gay pride parade should be about if not the very thing that makes you straight people behave so irrationally about us?

you don't persecute us because we have fabulous fashion sense -- you persecute us because women dance provocatively with women, men kiss men, etc.

so if we don't show you that what you fear is beautiful, sexy, joyous, wonderful -- then there it stays in the dark still retaining the false appearance that there is something wrong.

gay pride parades galvanizes, energizes, electrifies, unites a community that all too often has had to hide away to keep you all from killing us.

so we stopped -- and we've started to show the thing that makes you nuts -- and you know what? -- we're still making head way in the civil rights arena -- think that might be because we show ourselves so provocatively to the world? -- i do.