the reason why, since people asked, isn't some
why-does-our-community-have-to-appear-in-leather-and-drag-when-this-is-the-only-time-straight- people-look-at-us-and- all-we-want-is-respect-blah- blah-blah. don't most people reach a certain age where they'd rather be left alone than "respected" anyway? my beef is more about how at the same time that pride (and how most of the booths and floats now are for altoids or websites or bars, and how people decide to hold hands for one day only, and how the more pride i see the more it feels like a celebration of boringness) makes me not like being gay, there's parts of it (seeing same-sex couples pushing strollers or carrying babies, other happy couples of all stripes) that make me just a little bit jealous.