Gay Pride Week and a Dearth of Pride

Gay Pride Rights Week and a Dearth of Pride

As Gay Rights Week approaches in N.Y.C., it only seems respectful and supremely PC to devote regular articles to homosexuals, gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals, trans-sexuals, tri-sexuals, gerbil afficionados, cross dressers, and NAMBLA predators.

And what more ironically appropriate day to begin this week-long annual festival of all things gay than Father’s Day weekend?

This promises to be a Big Apple biggie for the gaysters. The year 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in N.Y.C.’s Greenwich Village, those iconic riots during which homosexuals exited that gay bar in droves when cops raided the place.

Joined by hundreds of non-bar hopping gays and many who no doubt exited their closets that night, they pelted police with beer bottles, rocks, and whatever else was handy and launched the Gay Revolution.

They seem to be winning that revolution four decades later so this is no time to be slackers and sluff off and rest on their multicolored laurels or fail to display the multicolored gay pride flag:

It will be tough for the New York contingent to out-do their Boston counterparts who pre-empted them last month, although I’m certain they’ll give it their best shot. Planned are such awesome doings in the city and environs as “PRIDEfest,” a “Pride Rally,” “Rapture: A Womens Dance,” “The March,” and the grand finale, “The Dance on the Pier:” http://gaytravel.about.com/od/partiesevents/qt/NYC_Pride.htm.

A jolly good, prideful, gay ol’ time should be had by all but, as ambitious as all those pride events are, it’s hard to imagine their besting Boston. The Boston debacle has been the subject of various pieces on this site.

(See “Various Perversions,” http://gaytravel.about.com/od/partiesevents/qt/NYC_Pride.htm, and “Gay News,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1057, and dozens of other gay outings here.)

Those Bostonian gays actually outdid themselves with this year’s Gay Prom at City Hall when they dropped any pretense . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)