Reply #75: Didn't mean to sound rude or facetious. Meant to draw ...

[Smarmie Doofus]

you out on your closing point; which seemed to be: the 10 second media clips of gay pride parades feature the unclothed and outrageous 'cause the media ( by it's very nature) deals with the superficial and the sensational ( aka the exceptional) at the expense of the mundane.

If so, I think you're correct but... seems to me that in making this point... you're detracting from the pro-hedonism argument and adding support to the contention of the OP. Which in a general sense I agree with.

Re. "Yay hedonism." That's fine. It just doesn't have anything to do with working for rights for sexual minorities. Except if you count "hedonists" as a sexual minority. In which case, why not let straight people fight that fight? Why append it to the already much maligned, and *poorly understood* "gay agenda"? Further confusion is not what this issue needs, seems to me.

Anyway, this thread is already two weeks old. Time to put it to sleep.