Got an idea for a new gay Holiday

[SiderealExalt]

It was the We The Fabulous part huh?

 

[David Brider]

I like it, too bad it couldn't be international!

I'm sure it can be.

 

[David Brider]

There are a couple gay holidays I can think of. One is fairly recent...

Which ones are you thinking of?

David.

 

[David Brider]

I call dibs on mancrush dates with Jude Law.

Can I have Milo Ventimiglia?

 

[Self Improvement]

Wow, a claim without evidence! Who'da thought?

Yeah, that comes standard with your sign up at CF.

 

[Polycarp_fan]

Since social conservatives are so fond of saying that being gay is a choice. I recommend we nationally have a Be Gay For a Day holiday sometime in the year. Then for one day, under socially acceptable terms, these social conservatives can choose to be gay. Take your golf buddy out for a special date, Claire at the office can spend quality time with Susan in the cubicle down the way. I mean if it's really a choice I'm sure you can use a new day off to exercise that choice.

Got an idea for a new gay Holiday?

None that won't get me banned.

 

[jayem]

Got an idea for a new gay Holiday?

How about June 10? Judy Garland's birthday.

 

[Sitswithamouse]

I sooo want a date with Keira Knightly.

 

[CreedIsChrist]

Since social conservatives are so fond of saying that being gay is a choice. I recommend we nationally have a Be Gay For a Day holiday sometime in the year. Then for one day, under socially acceptable terms, these social conservatives can choose to be gay. Take your golf buddy out for a special date, Claire at the office can spend quality time with Susan in the cubicle down the way. I mean if it's really a choice I'm sure you can use a new day off to exercise that choice.

Its so reassuring to see how atheists are so concerned with the big matters in life.

 

[LittleNipper]

Since social conservatives are so fond of saying that being gay is a choice. I recommend we nationally have a Be Gay For a Day holiday sometime in the year. Then for one day, under socially acceptable terms, these social conservatives can choose to be gay. Take your golf buddy out for a special date, Claire at the office can spend quality time with Susan in the cubicle down the way. I mean if it's really a choice I'm sure you can use a new day off to exercise that choice.

They have that one already, it is called Mradi Gras or FAT Tuesday. It's when some people choose to act as PIGS.

 

[b&wpac4]

They have that one already, it is called Mradi Gras or FAT Tuesday. It's when some people choose to act as PIGS.

So, GAYS = PIGS and yet you have claimed you don't want to dehumanize them, right?

 

[Gremlins]

Noooo, not yet! My pink tank-top and matching lycra hotpants aren't back from the dry-cleaners!!!!

 

[Belk]

I call dibs on mancrush dates with Jude Law.

Fine, but I get David Boreanaz.

 

[LittleNipper]

So, GAYS = PIGS and yet you have claimed you don't want to dehumanize them, right?

No, I said some people choose to act as pigs and use select holidays to play the fool... Fools are human too. All too human in fact... You read into it to suit yourself....

 

[Skaloop]

Would there be a bi-day as well? Because my wife and I each have one of those "celebrities we are allowed to have sex with should the unlikely occasion ever arise" and we've got a few names that are common to both our lists, so if we could, you know, share, that would be great.

 

[Joachim]

They have that one already, it is called Mradi Gras or FAT Tuesday. It's when some people choose to act as PIGS.

Ok. Mardi Gras is a Christian celebration and it corresponds with the Christian feast of Shrove Tuesday. The first Mardi Gras mass was held at Point Du Mardi Gras in 1699. We actually don't know where that point was though New Orleans people say it was in New Orleans and Mississippi people say it was somewhere near Gulfport. Biloxi was the only French settlement at the time so even if it was in Louisiana state territory the claim would go to Biloxi by virtue of Fort Mareapas being the only fort in operation at the time

The first Mardi Gras celebration in terms of an outright festival was held at Fort St. Louis de la Mobile which later evolved into the city of Mobile. When New Orleans was founded in 1718, the French continued Fat Tuesday celebrations there as well. New Orleans had the first Mardi Gras flag. Mobile had the first parading organization and exported that tradition to New Orleans in the 1850s. It has been recognized as a state holiday in both cities since the 1870's.

Having grown up in one of these cities I can assure you that Mardi Gras is about many things. A celebration of homosexuality is not one of them. We do have gay and lesbian societies such as the Order of Osiris. That Osiris exists does not make the holiday a gay one. Mardi Gras is a Christian liturgical holiday and it is the last fun that you get to have before the sacrifices of Lent. That is why it is the day before Ash Wednesday. The public schools let the children out so that they can attend church, though that is a holdover from the time when Catholics used the public schools which with the exception of a few specific schools they no longer do. In the Catholic schools, you do have to attend on Ash Wednesday and you attend at the Ash Wednesday mass.

Mardi Gras is about balls, throws, family and community. It is obvious from your comment that you have never been to Mardi Gras and know nothing of what it is about. To judge it by what tourists in the tourist section of New Orleans do is completely ignorant. As part of the friendly rivalry I don't want to defend New Orleans during Mardi Gras season but I will. Most New Orleans people don't actually hang around the tourists during Mardi Gras and most of the New Orleans people are not in areas where people flash for beads. If you do that in one of the family sections along the N.O. parade route they will haul you off to jail. If you do that in Mobile at all you will be hauled off today. Mardi Gras is a celebration of the community and in Mobile, New Orleans and in most of southern Louisiana it is the most important celebration that the community holds.


The following cities hold Mardi Gras celebrations: New Orleans and suburbs, Mobile and suburbs, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Pensacola, Beaumont, Galveston, Panama City, Destin, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Metairie, Panama City and probably other cities I have forgotten.


Now, how many of those cities do you associate with "strong gay culture?"


Before you go insulting a holiday please learn what the holiday you are insulting is actually about

 

[Joachim]

Since social conservatives are so fond of saying that being gay is a choice. I recommend we nationally have a Be Gay For a Day holiday sometime in the year. Then for one day, under socially acceptable terms, these social conservatives can choose to be gay. Take your golf buddy out for a special date, Claire at the office can spend quality time with Susan in the cubicle down the way. I mean if it's really a choice I'm sure you can use a new day off to exercise that choice.

You're not going to win anyone to your cause with this method of argument. Just a thought.

 

[b&wpac4]

Ok. Mardi Gras is a Christian celebration and it corresponds with the Christian feast of Shrove Tuesday. The first Mardi Gras mass was held at Point Du Mardi Gras in 1699. We actually don't know where that point was though New Orleans people say it was in New Orleans and Mississippi people say it was somewhere near Gulfport. Biloxi was the only French settlement at the time so even if it was in Louisiana state territory the claim would go to Biloxi by virtue of Fort Mareapas being the only fort in operation at the time

The first Mardi Gras celebration in terms of an outright festival was held at Fort St. Louis de la Mobile which later evolved into the city of Mobile. When New Orleans was founded in 1718, the French continued Fat Tuesday celebrations there as well. New Orleans had the first Mardi Gras flag. Mobile had the first parading organization and exported that tradition to New Orleans in the 1850s. It has been recognized as a state holiday in both cities since the 1870's.

Having grown up in one of these cities I can assure you that Mardi Gras is about many things. A celebration of homosexuality is not one of them. We do have gay and lesbian societies such as the Order of Osiris. That Osiris exists does not make the holiday a gay one. Mardi Gras is a Christian liturgical holiday and it is the last fun that you get to have before the sacrifices of Lent. That is why it is the day before Ash Wednesday. The public schools let the children out so that they can attend church, though that is a holdover from the time when Catholics used the public schools which with the exception of a few specific schools they no longer do. In the Catholic schools, you do have to attend on Ash Wednesday and you attend at the Ash Wednesday mass.

Mardi Gras is about balls, throws, family and community. It is obvious from your comment that you have never been to Mardi Gras and know nothing of what it is about. To judge it by what tourists in the tourist section of New Orleans do is completely ignorant. As part of the friendly rivalry I don't want to defend New Orleans during Mardi Gras season but I will. Most New Orleans people don't actually hang around the tourists during Mardi Gras and most of the New Orleans people are not in areas where people flash for beads. If you do that in one of the family sections along the N.O. parade route they will haul you off to jail. If you do that in Mobile at all you will be hauled off today. Mardi Gras is a celebration of the community and in Mobile, New Orleans and in most of southern Louisiana it is the most important celebration that the community holds.


The following cities hold Mardi Gras celebrations: New Orleans and suburbs, Mobile and suburbs, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Pensacola, Beaumont, Galveston, Panama City, Destin, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Metairie, Panama City and probably other cities I have forgotten.


Now, how many of those cities do you associate with "strong gay culture?"


Before you go insulting a holiday please learn what the holiday you are insulting is actually about

Pfft! Facts and reality! You can't let facts and reality get in the way of insulting homosexuals!

 

[SiderealExalt]

Its so reassuring to see how atheists are so concerned with the big matters in life.

*Capt Kirk voice*...I'm...searching..for...signs of comedic life....can't....seem...to detect any.....

I'd say get a life but all I have is free samples.

They have that one already, it is called Mradi Gras or FAT Tuesday. It's when some people choose to act as PIGS.

Ah the heterosexual ritual performed in the southern city of New Orleans, truely...a testament to the sanctity of all my fellow heterosexual marital vows and the seriousness with which all the youth in attendance display the finest qualities of our nation.

You know I hear there is a new surgery for stick up butt syndrome.

 

[SiderealExalt]

You're not going to win anyone to your cause with this method of argument. Just a thought.

Every time someone on the internet doesn't recognize satire, The Flying Spaghetti Monster kills a kitten.