# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/21 "2004-07-01T20:32:25Z")
I think the OP is just trying to say that he likes his beer cold, his women hott, and his homosexuals Flaming!!! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/22 "2004-07-01T20:38:14Z")
“…these conservative assholes who’ve totally usurped our movement. You know the people I’m talking about, you see them at every pride rally, they get up on stage and go, “We’re just like everyone else! We are like them and they are like us. Straights are like us and we are like them! We - are like - EV - eryone - else!” And then a seven-and-a-half-foot-tall drag queen walks by with three feet spangled platforms and he opens up his butterfly wings, f-f-f-f-f-f-f! Oh, we’re _just_ like everyone else, all right!” - Lea DeLaria ---
**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, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/23 "2004-07-01T23:01:59Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I think the OP is just trying to say that he likes his beer cold, his women hott, and his homosexuals Flaming!!! I believe the quote is: > [@](#): > > I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals _flaaaaaaaming_. - Homer Simpson Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/24 "2004-07-01T23:13:41Z")
ahhhhh. Thanks. It must have been _me_ who likes hott women and flaming homosexuals… ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/25 "2004-07-01T23:31:03Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > ahhhhh. Thanks. > It must have been _me_ who likes hott women and flaming homosexuals… Somehow, I don’t think so. Unless ‘hott’ means ‘male’. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/26 "2004-07-01T23:56:43Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Somehow, I don’t think so. Unless ‘hott’ means ‘male’. 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/27 "2004-07-02T00:04:44Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > So, I’m guessing the 300lb hairy guy in the tutu couldn’t make it this year? Gimme a break! I had the sniffles Sunday. 😃 **Bear\_Nenno (Napples)** maybe **Gingy** doesn’t understand that you are not **that kind** of bear. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/28 "2004-07-02T00:26:39Z")
> [@lemonbear](#): > > **Bear\_Nenno (Napples)** maybe **Gingy** doesn’t understand that you are not **that kind** of bear. Apparantly so. Guess a guy just can’t leave the house all fashionable anymore without sending mixed sigals. 😃 > [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > So, I’m guessing the 300lb hairy guy in the tutu couldn’t make it…? > [@lemonbear](#): > > Gimme a break! I had the sniffles… LOL!! Funny, I think the same two sentences were exchanged at **FCM** ’s going away party. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/29 "2004-07-02T04:50:49Z")
I’m trying to imagine a SDMB Pride Parade, but given our relatively serious minded and non-flaming homos, it seems to devolve into some big covered dish buffet thing on someone’s patio with lots of different beers and wines, and good conversation, _not that there’s anything wrong with that_. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/30 "2004-07-02T06:57:00Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I’m trying to imagine a SDMB Pride Parade, but given our relatively serious minded and non-flaming homos, it seems to devolve into some big covered dish buffet thing on someone’s patio with lots of different beers and wines, and good conversation, _not that there’s anything wrong with that_. All right, all right. I’ll see what I can do. So I was talking to Kylie Minogue and Liza the other day, and girlfriend said… oh, hello **astro!** How _you_ doing? Let me see that ass in them jeans! Woof. I mean, WOOF!! Come on closer, I won’t bite! (Unless you ask me to LOL!!!) Geez. I’m terrible at that. All right, I admit it! I’m not flaming, okay! That doesn’t mean I’m a bad person! I’m just the way God made me! Incidentally, you think the NYC Pride parade was a disappointment – imagine how I felt when I went to my first San Francisco gay bar. Turns out I’d been there a couple of times before and hadn’t even realized it was supposed to be a gay bar. No flashing lights, no pounding dance music, everybody had their shirts on. Just a bunch of people getting drunk! Man, somebody has really dropped the ball. So to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/31 "2004-07-02T10:36:45Z")
Paris Pride last weekend was more fag-chic than flaming-queer. Not a dyke-on-bike or a pair of oiled-up man boobies to be seen. London Pride is tomorrow, so hopefully the fabulosity-deficit will be made up on this side of the Channel. > [@](#): > > 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. _Suuure_ you were. You want hotpants to go with that tight stretch shirt? ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/32 "2004-07-02T12:43:16Z")
Parades in general really tick me off. I’m just trying to get across town here, okay? ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/33 "2004-07-02T13:41:13Z")
We had dykes on bikes here in Cincinnati. But they were riding actually bicycles, which is nowhere near as impressive as big frickin’ Harleys. My group was behind the Chicks with Dicks drag show float, so we ate soap bubbles all the way down the dang parade route… but also got a chance to talk with really funny people 🙂 The Cincy parade was, sadly, not very flaming. But it was _fabulous_. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/34 "2004-07-02T13:42:34Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Incidentally, you think the NYC Pride parade was a disappointment – imagine how I felt when I went to my first San Francisco gay bar. Turns out I’d been there a couple of times before and hadn’t even realized it was supposed to be a gay bar. No flashing lights, no pounding dance music, everybody had their shirts on. Just a bunch of people getting drunk! Man, somebody has really dropped the ball. So to speak. Forget those gentrified sissies, girl; you need to get yourself to Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/35 "2004-07-02T14:02:19Z")
> [@Priam](#): > > We had dykes on bikes here in Cincinnati. One of my friends, a very hilarious fellow, pissed off his humor-impaired compatriots (they were all participating in the local Gay Pride parade) by calling Dykes on Bikes “Hooters on Scooters.” I mean, come on. Have a sense of humor! _Hooters on Scooters!_ That’s funny! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/36 "2004-07-02T18:31:20Z")
Coulda been worse. Down in Conway, Arkansas before the parade someone covered the parade route in cow manure and during the parade some Little Rock shock jock passed out gay porn tapes including allegedly to a minor. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/37 "2004-07-02T18:55:42Z")
Last years Houston Gay Pride Parade was… UBER GAY!!! And just to let you know, I did grab a few asses. I was Gay For A Day™! ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/38 "2004-07-02T20:30:33Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > 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. [Here you go!](http://web.archive.org/web/20010428040350/http://www.theonion.com/onion3715/gay_pride_parade.html)😃 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/39 "2004-07-02T22:34:45Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Forget those gentrified sissies, girl; you need to get yourself to Montreal. Thanks, but I’m not sure I’m ready to give up on San Francisco just yet. I’m sure that there are sufficiently flaming bars somewhere around here. It’s just that the city’s been gripped in this whole “individuality” fad lately. I keep getting in cabs that aren’t driven by middle easterners, and going to dry cleaners that aren’t run by crotchety old Chinese people. It won’t last. ---
**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 4, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954/40 "2004-07-04T03:30:34Z")
So, having never been to a Pride Parade (I’m not aware of Pittsburgh ever having one, and even then, I’m not really a big fan of parades in general), what IS the most “out there” entry anyone has ever seen? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-gay-pride-parade-meh-ive-seen-gayer/252954.md?page=3)