Gay Pride Festival

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, the parade was fun and there are always a ton of kids there — there was even a moon bounce for little ones. Sure your kid will see a fair share of men in speedos and women in bras, but they see far worse on the internet and tv, believe me. It's a beautiful show of solidarity and a day of fun. Now, would I let them hang out at JR's after? Uh, no.

Actually, no they don't. Because I don't let my kids who are of moon-bounce age watch that kind of TV or internet.

No sports bras or speedos?

I guess that means no Olympics and no beach. Both HUUUUUGE pits or moral depravity and recruiting locations for those nasty gay-folk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, the parade was fun and there are always a ton of kids there — there was even a moon bounce for little ones. Sure your kid will see a fair share of men in speedos and women in bras, but they see far worse on the internet and tv, believe me. It's a beautiful show of solidarity and a day of fun. Now, would I let them hang out at JR's after? Uh, no.

Really, why are their woman in bras and men in speedos Honestly, I am curious.

It's 91 outside. Sports bras and speedos are cooler.

It's also what I see sometimes when I go walking in my townhome neighborhood, so not out of the ordinary in the DC area. Where I am from, you would be sexually harassed non-stop by everyone.

It's not sports bras, it's regular bras, and its the tiny Speedos. You see those walking around your neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, the parade was fun and there are always a ton of kids there — there was even a moon bounce for little ones. Sure your kid will see a fair share of men in speedos and women in bras, but they see far worse on the internet and tv, believe me. It's a beautiful show of solidarity and a day of fun. Now, would I let them hang out at JR's after? Uh, no.

Actually, no they don't. Because I don't let my kids who are of moon-bounce age watch that kind of TV or internet.

No sports bras or speedos?

I guess that means no Olympics and no beach. Both HUUUUUGE pits or moral depravity and recruiting locations for those nasty gay-folk!

PP was speaking (by word choice used) strictly of viewing on TV and internet. We don't watch either of those at the beach. Do you?

[Anonymous]

It's no wonder people still want to kill us if so many people here think a gay pride festival is an inappropriate place for a 16 YO.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, definitely at 16.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you let a 16 year old (youngish in behavior), go to the Gay Pride Festival tomorrow at 5pm to see some of the performers? It is a school night although he is done with finals. Two friends he wants to go with are not done with finals, but that isn't my business.

I've taken my kids to Pride many times. There's nothing wrong with going -- free music and funnel cakes! A parade!

We're not going this year. It's just too much after Orlando and the nut job who got arrested in LA on his way to the parade. I don't want to take my kids to something that is a target for a shooter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No - there are a lot of predatory gays there

Which is why the only instance of a teen being attacked at a gay pride parade I could find occurredwas non-sexual (a stabbing), occurred in Jerusalem, & was perpetuated by a religious fanatic, not a gay person.

But I once heard from next-door neighbors girlfriends hairdressers niece that something happened once somewhere next to where a gay pride festival was the month before!!! Surely there is a connection

A guy got jumped by 4 men and beat with baseball bats on his way home from the Pride parade in Dallas last year. A guy was arrested going to the Pride parade in LA this year with weapons and explosives. I was in a crowd at the Pride parade in Chicago that was shouting slurs at the marchers and which started to throw stuff at them.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen one of these parades, like the NYC one? Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No - there are a lot of predatory gays there

Please come out from under your rock and join the rest of us in the real world. It's a wonderful, inclusive and friendly place out here.