# NYC Gay Pride Parade..meh..I've seen gayer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954 "2004-06-30T22:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/1 "2004-06-30T22:01:18Z")
Look…I’m not here for your gay pride parade. I just came over to Fifth Avenue so I can exchange this Banana Republic stretch oxford shirt for a smaller size. If you are going to have a parade, you mind as well make it more flaming. The Irish get dressed up in green and shamrocks and big Leprechan hats for their parade. Least you can do is do the same. If the NYPD is going to participate, they should at least wear tight cut-off police uniforms. As I said, it doesn’t bother me none, but my girlfriend was really disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/2 "2004-06-30T22:13:23Z")
Yeah, don’t you guys know how to flame any more? Anybody would think that you were just normal people living your own lives and proud of who you are, just like everybody else! Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/3 "2004-06-30T22:25:53Z")
I wish I had access to the premium content, 'cos The Onion’s “Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years” might be both hilarious and on point. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/4 "2004-06-30T22:41:54Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Yeah, don’t you guys know how to flame any more? Anybody would think that you were just normal people living your own lives and proud of who you are, just like everybody else! > > Oh, wait… Now here I thought this was an opportunity for people of an “alternative” lifestyle to express their lifestyle choice as flamboyantly as possible in the form of a parade. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/5 "2004-06-30T23:10:49Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > If you are going to have a parade, you mind as well make it more flaming. The Irish get dressed up in green and shamrocks and big Leprechan hats for their parade. Least you can do is do the same. > > If the NYPD is going to participate, they should at least wear tight cut-off police uniforms. > > As I said, it doesn’t bother me none, but my girlfriend was really disappointed. Always pointing fingers. Maybe you should ask yourself why you weren’t getting up there and showing them how it’s done. I see plenty of clearly non-Irish people wearing green and getting crazy drunk during the St Patrick’s Day parade; the least you could do is put on some assless chaps and start feeling guys up for the Pride parade. Is that really too much to ask? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/6 "2004-07-01T03:00:18Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Always pointing fingers. Maybe you should ask yourself why you weren’t getting up there and showing them how it’s done. I see plenty of clearly non-Irish people wearing green and getting crazy drunk during the St Patrick’s Day parade; the least you could do is put on some assless chaps and start feeling guys up for the Pride parade. Is that really too much to ask? Well, first of all I don’t know the rules about jumping into the middle of a parade and don’t want to get in trouble. Second, I’m not really an assless chaps guy but that’s just me. I don’t know. Apparently my girlfriend thinks a bunch of shiny guys dancing around to “It’s Raining Men” makes me uncomfortible. It’s not my thing or anything like that but it’s not like I’m worried that their going to spot my straighness, snatch me up and steal me away to their gay hideout or anything like that. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/7 "2004-07-01T03:04:59Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Second, I’m not really an assless chaps guy but that’s just me. Aww, c’mon…_everybody’s_ gay on Gay Pride Day! …or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/8 "2004-07-01T04:29:12Z")
Sounds like we need a Big Rainbow Limp-wrist Bare-ass Flaming Fag Fandango Day, m’self. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/9 "2004-07-01T04:52:25Z")
> [@](#): > > assless chaps If you have no ass, you might not want to wear chaps. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/10 "2004-07-01T14:27:29Z")
Just because, an exchange I participated in on another board, with a bit of paraphrasing: > [@](#): > > **rabid homophobe** : …and “Gay Pride” parades, where those faggots will walk around in pants with the behind cut out so you can see their buttcheeks. > **nice lady** : I’ve been to Gay Pride parades and I’ve never seen gay men wearing those buttless pants. > **helpful individual** : They’re called “chaps.” > **Polycarp** : Okay, neither **nice lady** nor I have ever seen gay chaps wearing that kind of pants! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/11 "2004-07-01T14:31:01Z")
So, I’m guessing the 300lb hairy guy in the tutu couldn’t make it this year? ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/12 "2004-07-01T14:52:18Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > It’s not my thing or anything like that but it’s not like I’m worried that they’re going to spot my straighness, snatch me up and steal me away to their gay hideout or anything like that. Not even if you ask nicely? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/13 "2004-07-01T15:01:39Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Second, I’m not really an assless chaps guy but that’s just me. Chaps are assless by nature. No such thing as chaps with an ass. The Chicago parage was _very_ gay. And sparkly. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/14 "2004-07-01T15:03:36Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > If you have no ass, you might not want to wear chaps. 😃 Yeah, they’d fall down, unless you’ve got, well… heh. My recorder consort played for services at one of our members’ Lutheran church this Sunday. At the end of the service, one of the announcements that people who were going to be marching in the parade should meet out in the parking lot to talk about carpooling, and the people who were going to be manning the booth should meet over to talk timing. Our leader, who is Catholic, turned to the Lutheran lady and said, “My, but the Lutheran church has changed…” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/15 "2004-07-01T17:14:19Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Now here I thought this was an opportunity for people of an “alternative” lifestyle to express their lifestyle choice as flamboyantly as possible in the form of a parade. If there were a lifestyle, you might have a point. As is, I’m merely left wondering the reason for your choice of word (and punctuation) right before that one. It was really important for you to emphasize that guys aren’t your thing, too. I was all ready to flirt with you… ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/16 "2004-07-01T17:25:54Z")
Hey, my group **was** wearing cut-offs, and dancing to **Dancing Queen** , **YMCA, and Love Will Keep Us Together** , with complete choreography. You don’t get much gayer than that. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/17 "2004-07-01T17:26:24Z")
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Evidently. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/18 "2004-07-01T17:28:29Z")
Just a tip-make sure you wear plenty of sunscreen with your assless chaps. Because while gay pride should be fabulous, sunburn and skin cancer are most decidely NOT! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/19 "2004-07-01T18:07:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Just a tip-make sure you **wear plenty of sunscreen with your assless chaps**. Because while gay pride should be fabulous, sunburn and skin cancer are most decidely NOT! > > 😃 Yeah. So you can all maintain “chap-less asses!” Bwahahahahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/20 "2004-07-01T19:39:08Z")
“We’re here! We’re queer! Get used to it!” “You do this every year, we _are_ used to it!” [/simpsons] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954.md?page=2)