THE ANNUAL GAY PRIDE PARADE IS ONE OF SAN DIEGO'S GREAT STATEMENTS ABOUT ITSELF. Although there are a few detractors, the city says about itself that it wants to be inclusive.
Jerral, It is a hard lesson to know that everything for which I've strived in terms of celebrating the varieties of our sexualities, seizing every imaginable "teaching moment" to change minds and hearts to welcome the amazing diversity of the human family, giving untold hundreds of hours and money to empower people victimized by the injustice that accompanies capitalism is all temporary. One moment's parade of pride moving toward greater acceptance and equality can become another moment's march of life risking protest viewed by many as criminal actions. Dancing fast and slow with partners who seemingly understand it all, made me want to believe that what I and they dream is achievable. It is, but I've sadly learned, only for brief moments in time. I long for the day when the people of the world can be like lovers who wake in the morning with bad breath and the imprints of rumpled sheets on their face, stretch and say, "Good Morning," and have just that simple stretch of their humanity lead to a passionate embrace of all the thrills of life together. Unfortunately we live in a world where we do get into bed together, rub against each other for our own purposes, and then get up and pretend it never happened. GLBT folks have been part of the mainstream of our national, political, educational, religioius, and social life since the beginning. Ask "Honest Abe"! Gay Pride Parades each year make me again believe the dream is achievable, but now my dreams are all shaded by the reality that what you and I believe is always in the context of a world of detractors. Peace, Bob
THE ANNUAL GAY PRIDE PARADE IS ONE OF SAN DIEGO'S GREAT STATEMENTS ABOUT ITSELF. Although there are a few detractors, the city says about itself that it wants to be inclusive.
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Bob,
I relate to absolutely everything you mention. "The times they a-changing..." May it be ever so. Thanks.
Jerral
Jerral, It is a hard lesson to know that everything for which I've strived in terms of celebrating the varieties of our sexualities, seizing every imaginable "teaching moment" to change minds and hearts to welcome the amazing diversity of the human family, giving untold hundreds of hours and money to empower people victimized by the injustice that accompanies capitalism is all temporary. One moment's parade of pride moving toward greater acceptance and equality can become another moment's march of life risking protest viewed by many as criminal actions. Dancing fast and slow with partners who seemingly understand it all, made me want to believe that what I and they dream is achievable. It is, but I've sadly learned, only for brief moments in time. I long for the day when the people of the world can be like lovers who wake in the morning with bad breath and the imprints of rumpled sheets on their face, stretch and say, "Good Morning," and have just that simple stretch of their humanity lead to a passionate embrace of all the thrills of life together. Unfortunately we live in a world where we do get into bed together, rub against each other for our own purposes, and then get up and pretend it never happened. GLBT folks have been part of the mainstream of our national, political, educational, religioius, and social life since the beginning. Ask "Honest Abe"! Gay Pride Parades each year make me again believe the dream is achievable, but now my dreams are all shaded by the reality that what you and I believe is always in the context of a world of detractors. Peace, Bob
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