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Today's is Day Without a Gay. Are you without? How very sad for you.
Anyway, SFist asked Mark Leno for his thoughts on Day/Gay, whether he will be taking the day off today. He tells us that while he's all kinds of proud of gays and stuff, he isn't taking the day off.
I am proud of our community’s peaceful grassroots response to the historically unprecedented and likely unconstitutional act of having our basic human right to marry the person we love taken away by a slim majority vote. The choice of whether to participate in Day Without a Gay is a deeply personal one. While the state budget crisis demands my full attention this week, I am confident that all of our collective efforts will continue to educate people as to the great danger of having anyone’s equal protection under the law undermined.
Thanks, Mark.
As of 9:30 am, San Francisco seems to still be running smoothly. Will update on any severe shutdowns due to gay grassroots efforts. Stay tuned.
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Well so far I still have electricity but I can hear the city grinding to a stop outside. Can't be more than five minutes.....
Someone was just honking outside my apartment, so perhaps the end is indeed nigh.
The choice of whether to participate in Day Without a Gay is a deeply personal one.
Pfffft.
Is there a concept in the gay community for something like "Ungay?" Like, a kind of enlightenment where gayness has ceased to be an issue one way or the other?
while there is the uncola, the is no ungay. much like the unicorn, it's an impossible fantasy.
"while there is the uncola, the is no ungay. much like the unicorn, it's an impossible fantasy."
Rubbish. It's called "post gay" and your typical homosexual is entirely hostile towards the whole concept.
whenever i hear alteraqueers use the term "post gay," it makes me want to carve out my eyeballs with a spoon. it doesn't exists.
we (homosexuals, etc.) don't get to define ourselves -- at least not entirely.
"alternaqueer"? Please.
I suppose I would agree with you if we homosexuals were solely defined by the act of two dudes love, but we're not. There's a culture, or a variety of cultures associated with being a homo. Mainstream society may have defined what's "gay" but it's becoming increasingly less applicable to more and more people. Gay no longer directly translates as an umbrella term for homosexual, the two words have diverged in both meaning and context. This is a good thing.