Lets get a proper Pride indication ........

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I have a great job, earn more cash in a month than you do in a year. I have a 1/1 degree in maths. Big house, stunning wife, 5 holidays a year.

Oh is this a Darwinian style intellegent test, where do I ft;

Lots of holidays, own my own buisness, even more stunning wife, ah but no degree, small flat, can't spell and buggar me I,ve only got a small dick, darn it is that how intelligence works.......I go off with the stupid people then

 

[Soul Finger]

Methinks you've hit that ol' nail squarely on the head there Buzzer. Could it be that a number of Seagulls supporters just can't cope with the constant gay jibes we all face throughout this septic Isle - & thus their ire is directed at the very people they see as responsible for their protracted suffrage? Besides, it's a damn sight easier to have a prejudiced rant on their keyboards than it is to have a pop back at some mob of opposing wankers innit? It just goes to show how 'hard' they really are, I reckon

Maybe some people think that because gays/lesbians/bis/trans are so woven into the fabric of the town that maybe Pride is no longer required - to such an extent - because it actually gives the remaining bigots fuel for their fire.

I laugh at the gay jibes we get at away games. To think that those idiots actually think we've never heard it before is hilarious. I am not offended if I am called gay, unless it is by my girlfriend, of course!

Pride is just too big now - simple as that. It used to be great fun, and it used to be about celebrating diversity and tolerance. As with all good things, it became too big and was diluted by people wanting to get hammered.

If people can't see the bigger picture and just want to swallow the prejudice rhetoric then good luck to them. As someone who lives and works in Brighton, I am surrounded by a significant gay population 365 days a year, because I choose to be. It does not bother me at all, because I have no problem with it i.e. I don't need to go to Pride to know that I am tolerant and respectful to others.

I don't need to be told that one day a year I have to embrace what is essentially now a money-making machine overridden with Londoners trashing the place, and then heading back to whence they came.

 

[Herman the Tosser]

Got any "******" slaves ? Right up your alley, by the sounds.

Two niggers in the basement along with my daughter who is currently pregnant with my third child.

 

[1234andcounting]

I have a great job, earn more cash in a month than you do in a year. I have a 1/1 degree in maths. Big house, stunning wife, 5 holidays a year.

Apart from the fact that you are a complete fantasist........I'll accept the double first (starred, perhaps) in maths if you would provide the name of the university. Great job is subjective (look it up in the dictionary). You have absolutely no idea how much I earn. Stunning wife (or do you mean stunned wife) is not proof of being clever any more than five holidays is.

How about some clear and unambiguous evidence of your cleverness. None of your posts would appear to support your assertion.

 

[Easy 10]

That was rather well said, Soul Finger

 

[Easy 10]

Two niggers in the basement along with my daughter who is currently pregnant with my third child.

I didn't realise you were Austrian.

 

[black & white seagull]

If the majority of people were gay then the human race would die out.

And that would be a bad thing because...?

 

[Napper]

Its one day of the year, i really cannot understand the hatred towards Pride. I mean look at the Withdean residents who hated the fact that we would be playing there every other week, yet we'd be up in arms if the council suddenly turned round and banned us from going there and the club from playing simply because of the noise, litter, disgusting scenes of celebration or irateness depending on the result of a match. To all Brighton fans on here they are of course NIMBY's, intolerant and don't understand that cultural make-up of Brighton and Hove, but of course the shoe is on the other foot for some of you now. Massive double standards!

So you don't like Pride. I accept that, i accept the reasons that you don't like it, but give it a rest. I love Pride, have a bloody good day/weekend out and about partying to the small hours and not once feeling intimidated by aggressive mobs of pissheads that you generally see on West Street of a weekend.

Pride is just that. I celebrate the fact that i can live in this country and be me, wholey and completely. I can love the person of my choice and not live in fear that i'll be arrested or imprisoned simply for having a different sexual orientation. Pride celebrates that, Pride celebrates that Brighton and Hove is one of the most tolerant, inclusive communities out there that embraces equality. Ok so that's a little utopian, there are a lot of problems out there still, a lot of intolerance, assaults, bigotry as this thread clearly shows.

The argument about why should the LGBT community need to flaunt their sexuality around for all to see doesn't hold water either. Its because of the history of the policy towards homosexuality in this country that it was needed. It became a focal point and i suppose a protest against the suppression of our rights, which the average heterosexual joe takes for granted. Now this might seem ancient history to many, but you only have to look back to Thatcher's Section 28 in 1988 to realise how close to home this is to many of us. This was only repealed in 2003.

Now this country is evolving and becoming more accepting of the Gay community, but there is still a hell of a lot of work to do. Im not forcing my sexuality on anyone, i'm celebrating the fact that i can express my rights and freedoms as a gay man. Pride is evolving aswell. The days of a protest march are fading. Pride is now more about the tolerance and inclusivity of a community and having a bloody good time. The amount of families that were out and about yesterday having a great time enjoying the feel good factor about Pride was amazing to see.

I sit here in great sadness reading some of the shite posted on here. When we're at footy matches and the gay chants start, loads and loads of Brighton fans love to give as good as they get and sing "you're to ugly to be gay!", yet that only suits you some of the time. When it actually comes to the reality of the matter you'd quite happily sit there and type your vitriolic hatred against certain sections of Albion fans aswell, me being amongst them. The "i'm not anti-gay, i'm anti pride" argument is a poor one. The use of the terms such as, poofs, queers, faggots is all to prevalent and all encompassing not just only on this thread, but many others, just look at the title for a start.

I know there's a lot of trolls on this board who love to dribble nonsense on a thread hoping for a bite, but sometimes you just can't sit there and say nothing. I am also mightily impressed by those on this thread who embrace Pride for the good time it is. Cheers lads and lasses.

Most the songs sung back re being gay are by the goons in H block.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Yes Gays are more accepted these days but this is as good as it gets. The school playground is still a place where being called a Gay is the biggest insult. Blokes will be blokes and when together with their mates its all a good laugh about gays etc.

Most of it isn't really nasty and I'm sure no one would act on their anti gay thoughts, but it's the way it is mate.

It will never be 100% normal so just enjoy the rights you have won

 

[Skaville]

I'm all for Pride. It's the manifestation of all that is good and special about Brighton - tolerance and decadence. The town makes a fortune and events like this help make up for the shortfall lost through the decline of the British seaside industry. Keep up the good work gayers!

 

[El Presidente]

Keep up the good work gayers!

I'm with Jimmy on the Yay for Gay front!

 

[Gully]

Me too, the biggest and the best!!!

 

[Ernest]

I'm with Jimmy on the Yay for Gay front!

I'm right BEHIND you on that

 

[dougdeep]

Who moved the thread? Oh we've been merged.

 

[Herman the Tosser]

Apart from the fact that you are a complete fantasist........I'll accept the double first (starred, perhaps) in maths if you would provide the name of the university. Great job is subjective (look it up in the dictionary). You have absolutely no idea how much I earn. Stunning wife (or do you mean stunned wife) is not proof of being clever any more than five holidays is.

How about some clear and unambiguous evidence of your cleverness. None of your posts would appear to support your assertion.

You complete nob end. What a joke you are. University of Belfast. I am on £200K per year and bonus on top of that in a massive finance company.

 

[Gully]

...it is knob and not nob...so much for a university education.

 

[Herman the Tosser]

...it is knob and not nob...so much for a university education.

University did not teach me how to spell 'Knob'. Yours may have done. Prick.

 

[Gully]

University did not teach me how to spell 'Knob'. Yours may have done. Prick.

I have managed to get by in life without the benefit of a university education, school taught me how to spell properly.

I am quite shocked that you are old enough to have been to university, you present yourself as someone far younger.

 

[Cian]

I have a great job, earn more cash in a month than you do in a year. I have a 1/1 degree in maths. Big house, stunning wife, 5 holidays a year.

Watford O, is that you?

I think you will find that the percentage of HIV victims suggests that it is still a faggot disease.

Actually, no, they don't. Heterosexual sex followed by IV drug use are the main transmission vectors, and have been for about ten years.

Engage brain before hitting keyboard, Herman.

 

[Herman the Tosser]

I have managed to get by in life without the benefit of a university education, school taught me how to spell properly.

But you like poofs so I am best.

I do not like:

1. IRA supporters
2. Proud poofs.
3. Peados
4. Immigrants who commit crime (which is most of them)
5. PC people.

NO SURRENDER

 

[Cian]

But you like poofs so I am best.

I do not like:

1. IRA supporters
2. Proud poofs.
3. Peados
4. Immigrants who commit crime (which is most of them)
5. PC people.

NO SURRENDER

So you like non-proud "poofs" then?

How do you feel that the DUP has sold you out, Herman? IRA man as deputy first minister...

Or, do you, like most of them, accept it on the basis that the alternative - the British govt. ignoring you entirely and going to joint direct rule - was worse? Its all well and good saying "NO SURRENDER" when Westminster has effectively done it for you.