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[sophiaserpentia]

I went to the Youth Pride rally on Saturday. The rally was originally to be held at the Boston Common, but was held indoors at the Castle on Arlington Street instead due to the torrential downpour.

Despite the rain, they paraded. After watching them line up and file out the door, with banners and raincoats and plastic ponchos, i gathered my stuff and left The Network's table. On the way down Arlington Street to the T i saw the parade coming: a duck boat and about 2 blocks worth of mostly teenagers. So i stood, while getting soaked (my umbrella was irrelevant) and watched as they passed by, chanting,

"What do we want?"
"Safe schools!"
"When do we want them?"
"Now!"

Safe schools. That's the big gay agenda: "Don't harass or beat up gay kids, please. It would be nice if you didn't kick us out of our homes, too."

The parade is affiliated with the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. It came under attack last week because the governor, under pressure from homophobes because he's running for President, freaked out because his name appears on the letterhead the commission used when sending out a letter about the parade.

Gee, it's a governor's commission, created by a Republican governor in 1988 to address the astronomical rates of suicide and depression among gay and lesbian teenagers. Governor's commissions tend to have the current governor's name on the letterhead. Imagine that.

The Article 8 Alliance has the gall to say that they are "standing up for children." Attempting to silence teenagers and prevent them from expressing who they are, attacking efforts aimed at making their homes and schools safer, this is their idea of standing up for children? In future generations, people will think of groups like this the same way we now think of the Ku Klux Klan.

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[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

"In future generations, people will think of groups like this the same way we now think of the Ku Klux Klan."

I certainly hope so.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I know it's not a strict parallel -- the Article 8 Alliance doesn't go around lynching people -- but since they implicitly encourage others to do it instead, there's not really that much difference.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

The Klan doesn't officially lynch people either - officially they just encourage others to think of blacks as non-human.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if members of these antigay coalitions beat up kids they considered "faggots" in high school.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I read not too long ago about some homophobic preacher who pined recently for the lost good ol' days when you could gay-bash and get away with it. But it's lost in the wash and i'm not sure i could find it.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

"'Last year [at the parade] they had boys in fishnet stockings and high heels parading down Boylston Street,' Camenker said. 'They had boys dressed as women embracing. We presented stuff, and they were visibly sickened by what they saw. I said, basically, this group has to go. It's so manifestly destructive to kids that you have to get rid of it. They said they'd do something.'"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! ANYTHING BUT THAT! WE MUST PRESERVE SEX ROLES AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!
Fucktards.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I like his language usage there. "they had," as if the parade organizers dressed the boys up that way. But that's apparently their angle, that this is all about recruitment.

Well, you don't have to recruit someone to be who they are...

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like, OMG, you have to really twist the arms of teens to have them dress unconventionally or question the rules of normal behavior.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you nailed it... these people claim that we're trying to push our values onto their children while at the same time wanting to do the same exact thing to our children. They are even likely to succeed since they control the media, the government, and all the institutions. They can't stand to allow even the slightest bit of dissent without doing everything they can to intimidate us back into silence.

"Evil straight agenda" indeed.