I just heard a quip that made me laugh. It was in reference to times square in New york and the corporations who are celebrating gay pride month. He said "only corporate America could make sodomy and perversion seem downright boring..." I think he was arguing that the sanitized, synthetic version of "gay" that they present hollows out the experience of being gay and distills out the human element down to a hug after brunch and a hand shake. I kind of thought it was a funny observation of corporate BS.
Yeah I am ambivalent about it. On the one hand it is very silly, on the other it is following a well-trod path for integrating a minority group of rejects into American society. You get your flag, your parade, your seasonal marketing -- the Irish on St. P's and Italians on Columbus Day having been doing the same thing for a hundred years or more, and for maybe a day or two you are cooler than anybody who is not. This is what acceptance is supposed to feel like, according to a very old method that I am sure the non-Irish resented for a few generations but have now pretty much come to terms with.
