Sao Paulo Gay pride parade drew record attendance. The following is from gay activist Chris Crain's blog and written by Kevin:
"… what is most remarkable about São Paulo pride is its utter failure to articulate even the most basic message. Beyond a few pronouncements and a banner or a website, a coherent message of any kind fails to reach anyone in the street. Instead, the Parada is a sea of drunken recklessness, criminal violence and disturbing overcrowding which has begun to actually drive the resident gay population of the city away from it. The organizers are very competent in breaking world attendance records, but are hopelessly inept at finding some way to truly organize the attendees around any sense of mission or purpose beyond getting loaded, and getting laid."
[From Citizen Crain: Pride?]
Seems like nothing has changed since I went to these types of events back in the day… well except our events didn't have millions of people. His article goes on to describe robbery, murder and what appears to be a tragic accidental death of a young man partying at a local hotel. For those who don't know, June is a big gay "pride" month. These parades happen around this time of year.
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I think that article is pretty right on. It reminds me of a headline from The Onion a few years ago that read something like “Gay Pride Parade Reinforces Gay Stereotypes”
I think I’ll go on a solo camping trip during this years’ Pride -get out of town and clear my head.
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Well, if it was written by The Onion you know it was probably merciless. Personal retreats are a great thing. I finally started taking them the past couple of years and HIGHLY recommend them any time of the year. It’s good to get away and be able focus on Him and just relax.
Not only does it often reinforce stereotypes, I think as with any cause (look at Obama and his preacher), you often find party crashers who think that their more progressive or borderline questionable interpretation of a cause is that of the core message. (Sorry don’t know how to word it better then that.)
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Well, I guess any group of 3+ people will have a struggle to agree with mission and purpose. We are human after all.
thanks for leaving a comment Beth.