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Guerrilla Gay Bar - My new topic
milomorris:
I wouldn't be interested in anything like this. I don't understand the objective. Unles I'm reading too much into it, it seems like these folks just want to antagonize straight people. I don't see any value in that.
Milo
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Flashframe777 on August 13, 2008, 12:23:29 pm ---What do you guys think of this? I'm have joined Guerilla Gay Bar. But I've never actually participated in it yet. I may seem all political regarding gay rights, but I'm still not quite an activist. GGB is a secret event that happens once a month. Basically, group organizers send out a series of emails that hint at a meeting place on a specific night of the week. The last email informing everyone of the meeting place goes out a day or on the same day of the scheduled event. What happens on that evening is several hundred gay men and/or women show up at a straight/hetero establishment and turn it into a gay bar for the evening without warning. Cool, and just a tad scary. Would you participate?
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I would definitely participte in this, especially if I knew other gay women were going to be participating and not just gay men.
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: milomorris on August 13, 2008, 04:56:14 pm ---I wouldn't be interested in anything like this. I don't understand the objective. Unless I'm reading too much into it, it seems like these folks just want to antagonize straight people. I don't see any value in that.
Milo
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The antagonism aspect is a troubling one to me. I would not want to offend or otherwise cause bad karma, but lord the temptation to go to any public place an display affection, or at least identify without fear, is an awfully intoxicating one.
This article is intersting:
http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=2084
injest:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on August 13, 2008, 07:11:48 pm ---The antagonism aspect is a troubling one to me. I would not want to offend or otherwise cause bad karma, but lord the temptation to go to any public place an display affection, or at least identify without fear, is an awfully intoxicating one.
This article is intersting:
http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=2084
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first thoughts...that the activists themselves missed something...they may have 'taught' the straights something..but the straights showed THEM something too. There WAS no confrontations. The straights let them be. They came in...joined the crowd that was there...behaved like PEOPLE...and they were let be.
the thing that bothers me is the hints that since this one was so successful that the next one would be more 'outrageous'...and the answer is yes, if you get more and more confrontational then people will push back.
injest:
I do think it is a good idea if it doesnt' turn into a "in your FACE, BREEDER" kinda thing...
what was described in the article could be a good thing for BOTH groups...Straights NEED to see gay people just being people...and gay people need to learn that they are not in as much danger as they may feel from straights...
a first step to building a level of familiarity..
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