Boise to Host “Heterosexual Awesomeness Fest” During Pride Month, Stirring National Debate

[Cryingdick]

1 hour ago, mrwebb8825 said:

For those of you unfamiliar with the states, generally WY, MT, ID, UT and AK are no "fruit-loops" zones. They "tolerate" them as long as they keep their sexual preferences to themselves.

I see this festival as a "We're sick of having gay crap shoved in our faces and forced on our children". The fact that it's in ID shows great restraint. Just a few yrs ago they would've most likely been killed and forgotten.

As referenced by another poster, most pillow biters would rather these extremist "fruit-loops" would go away. The ONLY hate and disgust they draw is the ire of the 97% that aren't abnormal and see their parades as an assault on public decency and moral values. Parades and festivals in America have always been family friendly events. 🤠

 

One way to avoid things rammed down your throat is to keep your mouth shut. I get it, the flamboyant attention whore types are annoying. But what do you want me to do when i buy a house, go for insurance, go to the hospital? I am legally married and it isn't just an inconvenience to lie about that it is also a legal issue. 

 

If you are married go through a week of your life without outright saying the lady with you is your wife, and pretend you are just friends or whatever. Not sure when you last lived in the USA but even the most rural places pretty much accept openly gay couples now and blacks don't have a separate bathroom. 

[Peabody]

On 4/23/2025 at 8:07 AM, MalcolmB said:

Homosexuality was illegal for centuries up until a few decades ago. It has generally only recently been legalized in most western countries, not so much others.

So was...

- inter-racial marriage.
- women voting.
- blacks voting.
- women getting credit/mortgages
- etc., etc.

Doesn't make it right.

Heterosexual pride? Right up there with "white lives matter". 

[mrwebb8825]

On 4/24/2025 at 9:58 PM, Cryingdick said:

 

One way to avoid things rammed down your throat is to keep your mouth shut. I get it, the flamboyant attention whore types are annoying. But what do you want me to do when i buy a house, go for insurance, go to the hospital? I am legally married and it isn't just an inconvenience to lie about that it is also a legal issue. 

 

If you are married go through a week of your life without outright saying the lady with you is your wife, and pretend you are just friends or whatever. Not sure when you last lived in the USA but even the most rural places pretty much accept openly gay couples now and blacks don't have a separate bathroom. 

Not sure where you live but I currently live in the states. I also lived in the states when gay couples were whispered about as "those people" and blacks still had their own bathroom. My 1st encounter was at 5 yrs old in youth services at church. (Sunday School back then) and I never even met a black until 7th grade. While I was young, "stupid offensive behavior" was nipped in the bud like a weed in your lawn.

IF you agree the "Flamboyant attention whore types" are annoying then stand with your chosen community to get rid of the 0.1% that are promoting discourse and hatred of YOU and your chosen life style.

If you are legally married, why lie? Are you secretly ashamed? Do doctors and nurses refuse you treatment? How has being gay affected your credit score? Do you and your spouse flash fake titties and dangle your dicks in front of children?

Do you walk into the bank for a home loan and announce you're gay? Never seen that question on a banking form.

I lived next door to a couple of gay dudes and we got along just fine. We spent 1 Christmas morning sipping champagne out on the front deck watching the police chasing an escaped prisoner from the hospital across the street. 

Biggest problem you guys have is that 0.1%. They've take this crap from this:

 

to this:

[MalcolmB]

On 4/25/2025 at 5:08 PM, Peabody said:

So was...

- inter-racial marriage.
- women voting.
- blacks voting.
- women getting credit/mortgages
- etc., etc.

Doesn't make it right.

Heterosexual pride? Right up there with "white lives matter". 

The good old days before we went all woke.

[radiochaser]

"Supporters of Pride Month argue that straight pride events are unnecessary, since heterosexual individuals do not face systemic discrimination based on their sexual orientation. "

 

In the mid 1970's, in Houston, Texas,  I was turned away several times, when inquiring about renting an apartment.    The typical response from the landlord or manager was, "we don't rent to straights"!   When asked if they rent to "gays", the response was, we only rent to gays or we only rent to queers!

 

[Jingthing]

18 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

"Supporters of Pride Month argue that straight pride events are unnecessary, since heterosexual individuals do not face systemic discrimination based on their sexual orientation. "

 

In the mid 1970's, in Houston, Texas,  I was turned away several times, when inquiring about renting an apartment.    The typical response from the landlord or manager was, "we don't rent to straights"!   When asked if they rent to "gays", the response was, we only rent to gays or we only rent to queers!

 

If that story is true which is very doubtful, of the thousands of apartment buildings in Houston, that might be one of them.

They may have been wanting to build a gay space there so what they should have done in that case is to say that most of their neighbors will be gay, just so you know, then up to you.

I've seen similar things at entrances of gay bars where straight looking people are enting and the doorman saying -- you know this is a gay bar, right?

[radiochaser]

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

If that story is true which is very doubtful, of the thousands of apartment buildings in Houston, that might be one of them.

They may have been wanting to build a gay space there so what they should have done in that case is to say that most of their neighbors will be gay, just so you know, then up to you.

I've seen similar things at entrances of gay bars where straight looking people are enting and the doorman saying -- you know this is a gay bar, right?

It was in the area that was already called, Homo Heights, by the gays that lived there.

 

I doubt much of what you claim to be true too.   I guess we are even in that respect. 

 

https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/misc-peculiar.html

 

"Houston's Twilight World"
"Peculiar Street" in "Homo Heights"

The article below has long fascinated me, as it reported on a "straight" look
at Houston's gay & lesbian nightlife, though stereotypical one, as reported
in the original article in the Houston Post Sunday Supplement Texas Tempo,
on January 28, 1968.

First, here's how noted historian Phil Johnson reported about it in TWT in 1994

 

 

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, radiochaser said:

It was in the area that was already called, Homo Heights, by the gays that lived there.

 

I doubt much of what you claim to be true too.   I guess we are even in that respect. 

Yeah I assumed it was a gay ghetto area.

I don't approve of what they did. but again LGBT people are small minority and to conflate that experience if true to the general situation of LGBT is way off base.

I still don't believe your story. So you wanted to move into a gay ghetto? OK. Or are you just making up stories to trash gay people and present a totally false equivalance. 

[radiochaser]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah I assumed it was a gay ghetto area.

I don't approve of what they did. but again LGBT people are small minority and to conflate that experience if true to the general situation of LGBT is way off base.

I still don't believe your story. So you wanted to move into a gay ghetto? OK. Or are you just making up stories to trash gay people and present a totally false equivalance. 

Why make up stories to suit what you want to believe?

Discrimination is discrimination. 

And why call it a ghetto.  It was a good looking part of Houston, at least the residential area was. 

[Jingthing]

Just now, radiochaser said:

Why make up stories to suit what you want to believe?

Discrimination is discrimination. 

I said it was wrong.

What percentage of straight people have experienced housing discrimination based on their sexuality compare to LBGT people?

I estimate much less than 1 percent for the former and a high number for the latter.

From my own experience. Moving into a house and being greeted with graffiti saying FAGS painted on it.

How often do you think heteros experience that kind of thing? 

Basically never.

[radiochaser]

Just now, Jingthing said:

I said it was wrong.

What percentage of straight people have experienced housing discrimination based on their sexuality compare to LBGT people?

I estimate much less than 1 percent for the former and a high number for the latter.

From my own experience. Moving into a house and being greeted with graffiti saying FAGS painted on it.

How often do you think heteros experience that kind of thing? 

Basically never.

"

Why make up stories to suit what you want to believe?

Discrimination is discrimination. 

And why call it a ghetto.  It was a good looking part of Houston, at least the residential area was. "

[Jingthing]

Just now, radiochaser said:

"

Why make up stories to suit what you want to believe?

Discrimination is discrimination. 

And why call it a ghetto.  It was a good looking part of Houston, at least the residential area was. "

I haven't made up any story.

Calling gay concentrated areas ghettos does NOT mean they are slums.

It means a concentration of gay people in a particular area.

It's just a common way of speaking. Perhaps you were unfamiliar with it.

 

[radiochaser]

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I haven't made up any story.

Calling gay concentrated areas ghettos does NOT mean they are slums.

It means a concentration of gay people in a particular area.

It's just a common way of speaking. Perhaps you were unfamiliar with it.

 

The only time I have heard or read the use of the word ghetto, it was always in a negative way.   

 

[Jingthing]

Just now, radiochaser said:

The only time I have heard or read the use of the word ghetto, it was always in a negative way.   

 

Well it's never too late to learn new things.

 

gayborhood

www.glreview.org/article/why-gay-ghettos-are-breaking-up/