I was just coming to in to make the same point about equal rights as GAK. Since they beat me to it, I'll say this instead: getting married takes the fun out of being gay? Whatever, dude. Who knows how to throw a fun wedding if not gay people? Imagine all the Fetish/Sci-Fi/Hawaiian-Luau/Wizard-of-Oz themed shindigs we could attend! I'm planning on a Bollywood vibe for my ceremony...
--Hh
06/01 |
gay marriage is just another example of the gay community pandering to be accepted by the majority. guess what we don't need it. if you wanna spend your whole life with the same person fine, but why are you so desperate to get in on marriage? because all the straight people are doing it? gimme a break. this article was stupid too though.
--kwt
06/01 |
While you have a point that the fight for gay marriage partially seems to be the gay community giving in and conforming to a society instead of retaining it's own identity, it's also a fight for equality. I think marriage on the whole is an outdated and irrelevant institution, but if people really want to participate, then they should. I just know I won't be one of them.
--TSD
06/01 |
Soooo.... screw marriage rights because it would cut into your ability to club and cruise? Um, hello, there are plenty of heteros that have a sexually free lifestyle despite the existence of marriage. Just as gay marriage doesn't devalue straight marriage, it also doesn't devalue hedonism. I mean if you were writing back in the 60's would you be all "I don't get why Rosa Parks wants to ride on the front of the bus. Cool people don't ride the bus at all... public transportation is so common!" Maybe it's not something you personally are going to go advocate if you're not into the monogamy thing, but I don't see any reason why it's a BAD thing for the right to be there.
--GAK
06/01 |
The argument that giving more options to a certain group of people will alienate the entire group is the stupidest thing I've heard all this beautiful Memorial day. So, a gay couple wanting to get married is going to stop other gays from having "fun"? Please. It's just a choice, take it or leave it. "Takes the fun out of being gay"? I wasan't aware one was gay to have fun. Here I thought it was just a preference for one gender over the other. Thank GOD I was informed.
--B.D
05/31 |
I disagree with rk. If gay marriages go forward the "gay movement" will be de-fanged and domesticated. I think that rather than buying into the status quo, it is time to redefine such terms as "marriage", "commitment", and "equal". We are at a crossroads right now with an opportunity to create something new. If we accept gay marriages at face value we will all end up like Will on Will and Grace; pretty, witty and gay…and completely sexless and non-threatening. I prefer to be sexy AND threatening.
--js
05/31 |
He could have waited until paragraph three to plug his movie. I stopped reading after that.
--AI
05/31 |
"The model that gays are buying into kind of takes all the fun out of being a homosexual." Oh really? I thought it took all the fun out of being straight, or being sexual, or being human, or . . .
--
05/31 |
Dan Savage has actually come out against gay marriage (he wrote a column shortly after the Massachusetts decision explaining why he wasn't planning on hightailing it across country and getting hitched), for similar reasons as those put forth in this article.
--df
05/31 |
What a silly article. LaBruce sounds about as current as color-coded hankies. Despite the sexual bliss he may have found along the way, the fight for gay rights has been the fight for equality. It has not been the fight to preserve backroom sex or rest stop encounters. No law states that everyone must get married, gay or straight. Having the choice to get married is the big win here. It grants every individual gay person the opportunity to create the life that he or she wants. Some will get married, some will not. But having that choice is the very reason we started fighting for gay rights at all.
--rk
05/31 |
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