When asked about the Gay Pride March thing...

[Brixtaan]

I was at Pride but didn't take part in the march, just got wanked in the park.

sorry,i'm still coming to terms with that statement.Minorities ruining it for all again.

 

[zefarelly]

I have a few freinds who are totally straight, but go along for a laugh, and say its a great atmosphere, good for them, but not for me thanks.

and no theres nothing wrong with mincing every now and then . . ..its kept film and theatre going niclely for hundreds of years !!!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Zef...is that what you did down the wing...mincing or was that just a bad leg!

LOLOLOLOLOL


Love to Justine!

 

[zefarelly]

Ha Ha . . . .it was mincing mainly . . .. .apart from a classy cross Stumpy Tim flapped at

 

[Italiaseagull]

I like Lezzers!

 

[CHAPPERS]

There's a lot of testosterone floating around on this thread, maybe we should all don some short shorts and meet up in the Bulldog in St James's Street in an hour.

I'll be there

 

[Brovion]

Hang on a minute, stuff all this sexuality talk and go back to Dave's post on the first page. Somebody (gay presumably but it doesn't matter) was complaining that the Pride grant had been cut but the Council was still 'giving money to the Albion' (my words, I didn't see the letter).

What money have the council given us? This is all part of the misunderstanding that a lot of people have that the club is somehow being funded out of the public purse.

This is my sole gripe with the gay community in Brighton - a lot of them are outsiders who don't care about the club or even about football. All who support the Albion or at least care about the place a football team has in a community are welcome here!

 

[Brady's Old Lady]

Hands up all those who took part in the parade [/B][/QUOTE]

I'd rather not!!!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I know what you're saying Easy, I suppose it's because homosexuals are in a minority that has historically has been oppressed and shame is attached to being homosexual, which for centuries and beyond led gays to be ' in the closet' and so pride is basically saying 'f*** that' I was born like this and I'm gonna be proud, not ashamed or hiding away any more.

I guess the majority of posters on NSC are too young to remember the days when homosexuality was illegal. When I first came to the town, to live in Kemp Town, the law was in the process of changing. Brighton's gay community was visible, but very nervous of public attitudes. And there was a lot of establishment opposition.

Some years later, when I found myself living in the depths of rural East Sussex, my next door neighbours were a gay couple - one of whom was a very prominent Brighton educationalist with a job that entailed taking groups of young people on trips around the country and overseas. He was constantly aware that he needed to disguise his domestic arrangements from public scrutiny - because "complaints" might have ruined his career. Remember - there were no "Equal Opportunity Statements" until the mid 1980s.

Even when the Equal Ops industry took off, things remained difficult. In the organisation I worked for (East Sussex County Council), I remember the Council's first effort at introducing non-discriminatory employment policies. My then boss held a meeting to explain what was going on. His spin on the process was that "This doesn't affect our department, of course, because we're all engineers and I've always made a point of trying to recruit good Christians".

I, for one, can see what Pride is trying to celebrate. Things have changed. But only recently.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I have two very good friends who live together in a very loving relationship, in fact probably more a loving relationship that some of my male/female married friendfs, so I have no problem whatsoever with gays!

Whilst i appreciate that there is discrimination and violence towards lots of people, i am not sure that giving grants to various minority groups helps the situation.

 

[Yorkie]

Somebody (gay presumably but it doesn't matter) was complaining that the Pride grant had been cut but the Council was still 'giving money to the Albion' (my words, I didn't see the letter).

What money have the council given us? This is all part of the misunderstanding that a lot of people have that the club is somehow being funded out of the public purse.

I think I have read somewhere that the Council are giving us the land for the stadium which is equivalent to giving us a grant.