I can understand Gay Pride marches. First, I should state that one of my sisters is gay, and my best friend in college is homosexual, and I have had a number of gay friends, mostly male. My grandmother may be to blame for my not caring about sexual orientation, she rented out a little house to a devoted gay couple, one of them was in the Air Force, the other, yes, a hairdresser. She let me know that they were together, I can't remember how, it was an awfully long time ago, but she said they were very nice people, and it made her mad that people were intolerant.
I realize that homosexuality makes some people uncomfortable, or causes stronger emotions like anger and disgust. I just don't feel it. Similarly, I don't feel anger and disgust at blacks, Jews, orientals, hispanics, and others who are not the same as me. But, as a woman, I can sympathize with the outrage at constantly being excluded, put down, passed by. Women marching for equal rights also have little in common but their genitalia, if you want to reduce it to the absurdity.
Gay Pride marchers are not marching about where they like to put their genitalia. They are marching about the prejudice against them because of it. |
