Friggin great Poster

[fosters headband]

On the corner of Elm Grove and Queens Park Road about 15 feet square.

It says.
Some People are gay

Get over it.

Well I have news for them, I never had a problem in the first place, but I am getting there.

What with Gay Pride, having every opposition set of fans singing " Does your boyfriend know your here" and my town that I have lived in for over 50 years now the Gay capital of the UK, it is getting to me.

Why the need for such posters and who pays for such a poster? please somebody explain to me.
Will we be expected to be wearing badges next stating if straight, gay or Bi.

Am I just being over sensative.

 

[csider]

It does get to me having the LGBT & Pride stuff rammed down our throats all the time.

The town hall had a pride flag as did the grand, nothing for St Georges/Andrews/Davids etc day's. If they did its racist.......f***ing annoys me.

Recently at a LGBT club night straight people were turned away........You turn away "Sensible Shoe Wearing Women" or "Gay men" from a club and it would be shut down, with a massive fine thrown in.

 

[TSB]

On the corner of Elm Grove and Queens Park Road about 15 feet square.

It says.
Some People are gay

Get over it.

Will we be expected to be wearing badges next stating if straight, gay or Bi.

Am I just being over sensative.

Yes, yes you are....and contradictory as well!

The point of the poster is that IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL AND MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO WHAT SORT OF PERSON YOU ARE!!!! How exactly will that lead to badges
You seem to be heading in the opposite direction to where the poster intends...

 

[fosters headband]

Why the need for a poster at all?
Live and let live, but don't shove it down my throat

 

[Scoffers]

Why the need for a poster at all?
Live and let live, but don't shove it down my throat

..so to speak

 

[Trufflehound]

...don't shove it down my throat

*Insert punchline here*

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

This made me chuckle.

A letter from the Arsegas...


Arguably our second greatest gay playwright

The whole point of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month (every February) is to raise the visibility of LGBT histories, identities and culture.

I find it sadly ironic that, in the so-called gay capital of the UK, Brighton and Hove Museums should advertise a lunchtime lecture about Joe Orton (The Old Courthouse, February 21) but fail to mention his homosexuality, effectively confining him to the closet.

Notorious might have been the euphemism of the day but shame on them for not spelling it out in the 21st century.

Orton was arguably the country's second greatest LGBT playwright, after Shakespeare (and I bet that'll make homophobic readers prick up their ears and write in to claim him as straight).

I can comfortably predict that this lecture will attract an audience of middle-aged, middle-class fans. What a missed opportunity to engage the wider community, especially young LGBT people who are taught nothing of their history and culture at school.

Nigel Tart, chair, LGBT group Brighton and Hove Green Party


A very good response to that letter...

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/lett...ought_it_was_shrapnel_from_edna_welthorpe.php

 

[fosters headband]

..so to speak

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

There was an idea mooted that the blue plaques around the city (.....lived here) should be replaced with pink plaques, seriously. They were famous for their life works, not for being gay!

 

[Cian]

Recently at a LGBT club night straight people were turned away........

Last I checked, that wasn't actually legal - report to the UK's equivalent of the Equality Authority.

If it actually happened, that is.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It does get to me having the LGBT & Pride stuff rammed down our throats all the time.

All the time?

Do you not think you're exaggerating just a tad?

When was the last time you felt you were genuinely discriminated against, or just treated with a little less respect by someone, because you were straight?

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

Last I checked, that wasn't actually legal - report to the UK's equivalent of the Equality Authority.

If it actually happened, that is.

A group of us were turned away from a club in Manchester as none of us were gay, a group of five guys and seven girls.

 

[Cian]

A group of us were turned away from a club in Manchester as none of us were gay, a group of five guys and seven girls.

Legitimate equality case then (and a fairly financially stupid club, at that). Of course, they legally could have refused you with no reason.

Also, how precisely is a doorman supposed to tell if you are or aren't?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

A group of us were turned away from a club in Manchester as none of us were gay, a group of five guys and seven girls.

The thing is, I bet you've been turned away from numerous bars or clubs in your time: for being "too drunk", for wearing trainers, for being dressed too casual, for being in too big a group, or for living in whatever town, but you don't go home and lose sleep about it, do you?

Just don't see why you would over that, that's all.

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

Legitimate equality case then (and a fairly financially stupid club, at that). Of course, they legally could have refused you with no reason.

Also, how precisely is a doorman supposed to tell if you are or aren't?

A gaydar hanging about with him?

They asked most of us and we said we weren't, so that was that. I couldn't give two figs about an equality case, I am happy to accept that people are entitled (albeit unlawfully in this instance) to let who they want in the club.

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

The thing is, I bet you've been turned away from numerous bars or clubs in your time: for being "too drunk", for wearing trainers, for being dressed too casual, for being in too big a group, or for living in whatever town, but you don't go home and lose sleep about it, do you?

Just don't see why you would over that, that's all.

I didn't go home, I didn't lose sleep and it would not have been entirely relevant to the 'equality' issue, unless drunks and trainer wearers are a proportion of society that face discrimination regularly.

 

[Les Biehn]

What annoys me about that poster is it's reactionary stance masquerading as liberal empowerment.

Surely educating people that homosexuality is in no way a threat to our way of life, can enrich the community as a whole and a loving relationship between the same sexes is equivalent to a loving relationship between opposite sexes would be better than slapping some aggressive rhetoric to the walls.

And who exactly is it aimed at? Homophobes? All straight people? All straight people and those not yet out the closet? Everyone?

 

[NMH]

Last I checked, that wasn't actually legal - report to the UK's equivalent of the Equality Authority.

If it actually happened, that is.

In my late teens, I was refused service in a gay club, after declining a drink from the manager of that club.
Of course, I thought it was so open-minded of me to go there with some friends in the first place. My only problem with the idea before-hand, was that I wasn't going to find any straight women there to talk to, but "what the heck, be open-minded, accepting your friends' lifestyle is only right"
What if a woman declined a drink from a man who managed or owned a nightclub? Would that be alright to refuse her service from then on?

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

What annoys me about that poster is it's reactionary stance masquerading as liberal empowerment.

Surely educating people that homosexuality is in no way a threat to our way of life, can enrich the community as a whole and a loving relationship between the same sexes is equivalent to a loving relationship between opposite sexes would be better than slapping some aggressive rhetoric to the walls.

One could muse that whoever is responsible for this is almost inviting someone to deface it...?

 

[fosters headband]

Yes, yes you are....and contradictory as well!

The point of the poster is that IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL AND MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO WHAT SORT OF PERSON YOU ARE!!!! How exactly will that lead to badges
You seem to be heading in the opposite direction to where the poster intends...

I know it makes no difference to what sort of person you are, I have worked with many gays during my working life and have always treated them the same as anyone else. And I have found the majority extremely nice people. But this constant publicity to their sexual orientation is for what reason? is it really necessary.