24th Annual Gay Pride Events and Parade

[Doug Loudenback]

The Pointer Sisters are headlining this year's annual events to be conducted June 24-26 with the parade on the 26th. Be there or be square. http://dougdawg.blogspot.com/2011/05...okcs-lgbt.html

[soonerguru]

The Pointer Sisters are headlining this year's annual events to be conducted June 24-26 with the parade on the 26th. Be there or be square. http://dougdawg.blogspot.com/2011/05...okcs-lgbt.html

Doug, your blog post is outstanding. This seems like a real big-city gay pride event. Should be fun.

[Bunty]

Yet another music act from way back when to see before they get too old and die or retire.

[bluedogok]

Yet another music act from way back when to see before they get too old and die or retire.

I get to see Stevie Wonder at ACL Fest this year....that was a bit of a surprise act but Van Morrison was there are couple of years ago so maybe it shouldn't have been. The Eagles were the closing headliner last year.

[mugofbeer]

Did Van Morrison play more than 45 minutes? He only gave us 50 in Denver a couple of years ago

[Thunder]

I have never been to these events.

[UnFrSaKn]

I have never been to these events.

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[HOT ROD]

sounds like fun.

Enjoy your cultural diversity OKC. And who said OKC was not cosmopolitan. ....

[HewenttoJared]

It's been a good year, lots to celebrate.

[USG'60]

Doug, in your blog you say we had a gay mayor who never admitted it. If you are meaning who I THINK you are I will maintain that we had TWO, NEITHER of whom admitted it. Like you, however, I will keep it hush hush.

[betts]

In Chicago, this is the social event of the year. My daughters, neither of whom is gay, spend days thinking up their costumes and friends travel there for the event. Every apartment is full of visitors. It would be cool to see ours become at least a "must see" event for the locals.

[Doug Loudenback]

Doug, in your blog you say we had a gay mayor who never admitted it. If you are meaning who I THINK you are I will maintain that we had TWO, NEITHER of whom admitted it. Like you, however, I will keep it hush hush.

Sounds like we need to compare notes privately!

[Thunder]

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What's wrong?

[bucktalk]

Unless things have changed...a lot....some gay pride parades don't do much good to help how some people understand gay people. Sometimes image is everything...

[earlywinegareth]

Unless things have changed...a lot....some gay pride parades don't do much good to help how some people understand gay people. Sometimes image is everything...

Meaning what exactly? Sounds like you are stereotyping...careful.

[Thunder]

Its true. A lot of them are out there nude, near nude, wearing extreme kinky sexual outfit, having sex on floats, etc. Just common knowledge that I've learned over the years.

[king183]

Sounds like we need to compare notes privately!

Why is this any of your business or the business of anyone else?

[bucktalk]

Meaning what exactly? Sounds like you are stereotyping...careful.

Oh please....don't be a freak. Read again. Look for words like "some" and "sometimes". Its freaky how quickly 'some' people jump to conclusions without actually and completely reading a statement.

[Doug Loudenback]

Why is this any of your business or the business of anyone else?

I understand your legitimate concern for privacy issues, king183, but gay issues are on the public agenda and history is everyone's business. Gay Pride is the topic of this thread, and for those who are public figures, like mayors, that is particularly true. Not at all intending to make an appropriate analogy because it isn't, but to flip the coin to its dark side, I'd be equally interested in knowing what mayors may have been secret members of the KKK. I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least one, if not more, but that's a topic for another day.

As to this topic, do you think that it is OK to mention that Al McAffrey, my state house representative, is gay, and that former county commissioner Roth is, too?

Where do you draw your line as to appropriate public interest in your own view of what is OK and what is not?

[earlywinegareth]

As if straight people don't push the envelope of what society thinks is acceptable?? Ever seen what goes on at Mardi Gras or Sturgis? Makes the boyz in San Fran look tame.

Put it this way, if 3% of metro OKC is gay, then that's 36,000...odds are pretty high that you interacted with several gay people in the last week and didn't know it. That's cuz the majority do not look or act the stereotype. The sterotypical gay image represents an extreme subset of the gay population.

[Thunder]

As if straight people don't push the envelope of what society thinks is acceptable?? Ever seen what goes on at Mardi Gras or Sturgis? Makes the boyz in San Fran look tame.

Put it this way, if 3% of metro OKC is gay, then that's 36,000...odds are pretty high that you interacted with several gay people in the last week and didn't know it. That's cuz the majority do not look or act the stereotype. The sterotypical gay image represents an extreme subset of the gay population.

You can ask USG. He's living witness on here that people interacting around me would never know. lol

[MikeOKC]

You know, I'm just guessing, but maybe there's some concern about "outing" someone without their consent. A dead former mayor (if that's the case here), obviously can't give consent. Also, "outing" is seen by some as showing that there's an insinuation that there's something wrong with being gay. Even using terminology such as, "admitted", etc. I don't know - I'm a straight guy who's married and has always loved ladies - but I also understand both sides on this issue of "outing."

[USG'60]

Mike, no one has been outed here. I would imagine that all of the oldies around here knew who Doug was referring to but none of us used names.

And, yes, Thunder, I will attest that you certainly are not obvious about it.......... at ALL.

[Lord Helmet]

some gay pride parades don't do much good to help how some people understand gay people.

Ummm, what's there to understand?? They're just people like anyone else except they happen to be interested in the same sex. It's pretty simple really.

[MikeOKC]

Mike, no one has been outed here. I would imagine that all of the oldies around here knew who Doug was referring to but none of us used names.

And, yes, Thunder, I will attest that you certainly are not obvious about it.......... at ALL.

I understand that. But the blog post is talking about "hints" and such and in trying to be fair to the lesbian and gay community, that part of it might be very offensive to some. Then again - maybe not. The other side, I suppose, is that if it's no big deal, why not just talk names since there's nothing wrong with being gay? See what I mean by seeing both sides?