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"Being visibly out in many places, including much of the US, is a statement that we're willing to increase the risk levels for ourselves because we believe it's so important for future generations."
~ Farker firefly212
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"Asking for Pride to be less "in your face" isn't just asking for a protest for equal rights to be buried, but a demand [that] LGBTQ+ people go back in the closet without those rights.
"In the US, for instance, Pride is in June because its roots are in the Stonewall Riots, wherein a bunch of trans, gay, lesbian, and bi people were violently assaulted by police, and fought back.
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Comment I found on Fark, which I repost here in full (very slightly edited) because I think it's important:
"I think what certain Farkers miss, intentionally, is that in most countries, Pride is a protest -- a fight where people who just want to live their lives without interference from their governments or neighbors protest for that.
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COCK and BULL are rival British inns, both centuries old, once known for tall tales told by their clientele.
POPPYCOCK likely descends from Dutch dialectical pappekak, from words for 'soft food' and 'dung (excrement)'. The exact original meaning is uncertain.
The French art of décalcomania to transfer premade prints to other surfaces gives us both the word DECAL, and likely also COCKAMAMIE -- originally (<1940s) an inexpensive temporary 'tattoo' made by transfering an image from paper, and soon to something cheap or tawdry, and eventually foolish, ridiculous, far-fetched, unbelieable. Poss. by assn. with cock-and-bull (story), poppycock.
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I'm not saying it's a bad idea. But when you look at who's for it, you have to wonder what their real motives are.
GOP dipshit whines about predictable consequences of problems GOP created.
