Well more well intended patronizing PC crap. Note the new Black, and Brown stripes on the Queer rainbow flag. Granted we've been marginalized from day one of the so-called movement. I find this too little too little late, and personally offensive.
Look they thoughtfully put the new colors on top. The Black on top of the Brown even...they did this one with a slide rule.
I can hear the B.S. at the meeting now. "...and we should put the new stripes on top!" "This will show them Darkies how sincere we are."
In a word, or two actually. "Fuck You".
Fortunately no one will take this too seriously. One because it's really a white movement, and the other complacency. That, and how far will this go? Adding the Trans colors too? This after telling them to screw off for 40 years?
The damned flag will turn into more of an eye test than it is now. It'll be like them Japanese cartoons that give you a stroke like it was satirized on the "Simpsons".
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The original revolt was about life. Put simply it was a movement to get people to stop physically assaulting, and killing us. Rather like the movement in Russia today. Life or death. All of the middle class niceties came much later after the worst of the AIDS pandemic. The movement changed then from a revolutionary one to an assimilationist one.
The survivors of the Pandemic didn't want to over throw anything. They were cultural orphans with most of their elders, and activists dead. They turned from revolution, and wanted to join society as it was.
We on the other hand wanted to change society at it's very roots. So the first Stonewall was a Revolt,...not a party. This is now lost. Mere lip service is paid to it. I wasn't there on the day, but was there in the months, and years after. We wanted very different things. Marriage, and folding into the white middle class were not among them.
This is why after a time most certainly by the 1990's I stopped going the march. It had nothing to do with who we once were. It's become a carnival, worse a circus. Indeed in their "parades" which are often sponsored by newspapers that used to give out the names home addresses phone numbers, and addresses of employment of those arrested in Gay Bar raids.
That, and fucking Cops marching at the head of the thing sometimes. These from the same departments that beat us bloody, and from time to time would kill us. No mention of any of that history anywhere. Lets forget all that, and have a party.
I was told once to "let the past go",...really?
Still I wish them well, but remind them that we may all end up in the same Concentration Camp. These now being step up in former Soviet Republics. It is 'not' unthinkable it could happen here. The people the "Stroller Pushers are now trying to resemble are the same people that for centuries wanted us all dead. '...And may yet put us behind barbed wire.
As a youth how often all around me did the other boys say how much they wanted to go hunting "Fruits" to beat up,...and yes some said..."kill". On the whole as we see they have not changed that much. They could so easily given the opportunity as those in the former Soviet Republics were. Given that they will revert to the dangerous people they once overtly were.
Beware.
