Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] DC Pride day
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:14:40 -0700

On 6/6/02 B. D. Colen  wrote:

>Well, given that for enons the homosexual community - whatever that may be,
>as opposed to the approximately 10% of all of us who are homosexual - had
>plenty of insulting names and words stuck to them by the bigots amongst us,
>I, for one, figure they deserve to appropriate a few words.
>
>But, just for the record, I don't think you need to worry about losing the
>word "pride" to "them." Those who want to can still take "pride" in being
>tough, gay bashing, Amurkin heterosexuals. ;-)

Personally I found it odd that the original post called it just "DC Pride Day".
Here in Davis the street banners are saying "Gay and Lesbian Pride Day". Maybe
DC is needs to be less forthright.

Did we really need to pick a fight about this? Really?

Adam Bridge
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