# Dear CitizenPained

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 1, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362 "2012-02-01T00:19:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362/74 "2012-02-02T06:36:42Z")

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> [@florez](#):
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> I can not find it. CP was speaking out that gay rights and gay pride was being derailed by assless chaps at the parades?

[More or less](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=609409). As far as I can tell there should be no gay pride events because it upsets the homophobes and then they’ll never allow same-sex marriage.

> [@New poll: Majority of Americans support legalising gay marriage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poll-majority-of-americans-support-legalising-gay-marriage/582736/40):
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> I’m pretty sure that if you pair gay pride + same-sex marriage, you get an unhappy union.

And now thanks to this thread I have ‘assless chaps’ in my search history. Great.

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