And the grand marshall for the LA gay pride parade is...Paris Hilton???

Weren’t there some pictures of Paris making out topless with another woman? Does that qualify her as bi?

Publicity. Perhaps the high school girl who wants to be just like Paris Hilton (or the high school boy who jerks off to her sex tape every night) will stop and think, “Hey, if Paris Hilton is cool with fags, maybe I should be too.”

Wow, you came close to actually addressing the topic in question here.

Wait, no you didn’t. You didn’t even manage to approach saying something germane to the thread. You’re not the sharpest cookie in the chandelier, are you?

I don’t want to nitpick here, but that same three-out-of-four argument holds true for any gendered person you could pick. Hell, I’ve been to enough clubs that I know for a fact it holds true for me.

So, if any person you pick appeals to three of the four letters, why not pick (for example) a woman who has been particularly active for G/B men, so that everyone at the parade has something to cheer for – activism or ass – and that you don’t lower your event to a publicity stunt?

No, this one’s getting a theatrical release. I’ve even heard rumors of IMAX.

Insightful.

Sweet Jesus, you’re a moron. Don’t ever talk again.

What is the topic then? Half the OP is about how there are other, more worthy, celebrities to be grand marshall, half is about how much he hates Paris Hilton. One might say that the entire OP is about how much he hates Paris, since that’s the primary reason she isn’t a good grand marshall.

In these threads, I always find myself defending her. Why? Because I do not know anything about her that suggests she is mean, or harms others in any way. She’s a rich wild child who had parlayed her fame into a profitable show biz/celebrity career. How awful, she should be ashamed. :rolleyes:

Russell Crowe throws a telephone at some poor hotel worker and it’s just a bit of fun gossip. Oh, that crazy Russell! Paris grand marshalls a parade, helping to bring attention to GLBT issues and she gets Pitted.

I only have the vaguest notion who Paris Hilton is (this is one of the benefits/penalties of not owning a television, I take it), but if half of whating I’m hearing in this thread is true, it sounds like the “oh-gosh-straight-celebrities-love-us” syndrome which is one of the reasons I stopped reading <i>The Advocate</i> and <i>Out</i>.

Why do we care what these people think of us? Does anyone really care?

According to the paper today, Paris plans to “retire” in two years to raise a family. I almost fell off my chair laughing… retire from what-- being famous? After all, she simply is famous for being famous.

That’s what I think too. In other words, no big deal here. She makes big money while having fun at it. To me, that’s not a crime.

On the plus side, her babies will be well-nourished…

I have nothing against Paris Hilton. I just thought this thread had something to do with her as grand marshall of this parade, which is about gay issues. Whether she’s a bad person or not because she doesn’t have to work is pretty irrelevant to whether she has played any role in the movement for gay rights. (She hasn’t.)

That’s fair, your point is 100% valid, AFAIK, she hasn’t played any leadership role in gay rights. However, our OP spends a great deal of time insulting her, her mother, and her work, which leads me to believe that he is just as upset that it’s Paris as he is upset that it’s not a recognized gay rights leader.

It’s because Russell Crowe is really, really scary?

If it wasn’t for the fact that she’s a joke, then I would share your stance.
If her own show hit any where near the mark, she ain’t that great a person.
I don’t think she should be given the honor of being the Grand Marshall in any parade, much less one that has a good cause to promote.
I got to thinking…maybe I’m mistaken about Ms. Paris. Maybe she really is a do-gooder, nice person and I just hadn’t heard anything about it. After googling:
"Paris Hilton & “gay rights”
“Paris Hilton” & good deeds
“Paris Hilton” & Charity
“Paris Hilton” & charitable contributions
I’m afraid the best I can come up with is Paris: Porn Proceeds to Charity :stuck_out_tongue:

I decided to test this; I thought long and hard (don’t go there) about having sex with Ms. Hilton and then I thought long and hard (don’t go there) about having sex with a man. Ms. Hilton wins the sex sweepstakes for me everytime. YMMV.

It was probably a joke that got out of hand.

Coordinator: Hey, everyone, I got Paris Hilton, just like everyone wanted!

Everyone else: WTF?

Coordinator: Remember, everyone said she’d be great?

Everyone else: We were kidding. For God’s sake, we were drunk!

How sad.

But… I guess if there weren’t people attracted to sentient silicone, half the women in LA would go dateless.

But she has had so many men inside her she qualfies as a submarine, and was the basis of those semen stomach pumping rumors we’ve heard about for years referencing Elton John and the like.

To celebrate her status as a sub and for all the semen that has gone down with the ship, the Village People will stand on her bow and sing In The Navy.

What’s wrong with Paris Hilton being grand marshall?
I mean, she is just so gay!

::: d & r :::

She did?

That’s hot!