Sao Paulo City Council Approves Heterosexual Pride Day

[solanis]

The city council of South America's biggest city has adopted legislation calling for a Heterosexual Pride Day to be celebrated on the third Sunday of each December.

Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab must sign the legislation for it to become law and has said only that he is studying it. His office declined Wednesday to say whether he supports the proposal.

The legislation's author, Carlos Apolinario, said the idea for a Heterosexual Pride Day is "not anti-gay but a protest against the privileges the gay community enjoys."

As an example, he mentioned how Sao Paulo's huge gay pride day parade is held every year on Paulista Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in this city of 20 million people, while the March for Jesus organized by evangelical groups is not allowed on the same avenue.

"I respect gays and I am against any kind of aggression made against them," Apolinario said. "I have no trouble coexisting with gays as long as their behavior is normal."

The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Association criticized the legislation, saying it could provoke homophobic violence.

"How many LGBTs will be attacked because of the message that only heterosexuality makes someone a moral person and a good citizen," the association said in a statement.

"The celebration of heterosexual pride is inappropriate because it belittles the just cause of the LGBT community," the statement added. "Unlike homosexuals, heterosexuals are not discriminated against simply for being heterosexuals."

In a recent report, the gay rights group Grupo Gay da Bahia said 260 gays were murdered last year in Brazil, up 113 percent from five years earlier.

http://www.newser.com/article/d9osse...pride-day.html

lol seriously I can't

[Milkster]

Oh Gawd. What a mess.

[jmc]

This is gonna turn interesting..........

[Elvis]

Poor persecuted heterosexuals

[Rhinox]

I don't see the problem here.

Always thought the double standard for race and sexual preference was a bit retarded.

leave to the angry gay men to make a big deal about this.

[WahiGuard]

What is this? I don`t even..

[Mazmaz]

Is it just me or does marching in the Heterosexual Pride Parade sound really gay?

[Priran]

This just in, the Persecuted Minority Group for Equality claims their Not-You Synonym-For-Smugness Walk-of-Pomposity is under attack by some less-persecuted group asking that they be allowed to do the same exact thing. More at 11

[BadKarma]

I'm going.

[Priran]

This is stupid because every day that isn't Gay Pride Day is Straight Pride Day.

Yes, that's how these things work. Every day but for that one, straight people are absolutely thrilled simply by the fact that they enjoy rubbing their genitals on people of the opposite gender. But on Gay Pride Day, we do a switcheroo and straight people get saddled with the ennui and morosity exhibited by homosexuals at any other time during the year. And since there's fewer gay people they have to channel the overwhelming exuberance into making parade floats.

[ronin sparthos]

It's the same reason we don't set aside a White History Month.

Some BG people would argue for this.

[Milkster]

What would the point of Straight Pride be? Like what injustice have straights suffered compared to homosexuals?

[Priran]

Like what injustice have straights suffered

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[Qalbert]

And also this one.

[Milkster]

http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2...ge4895111x.jpg

http://www.starzlife.com/files/2010/11/sarah_palin.jpg

A few off the top of my head.

By injustices I mean things that have made your life harder and given you less rights and opportunities than your fellow man, because of something as simple as sexual orientation.

[Qalbert]

to be fair everyone suffers because of Palin

[Galkaeater]

well gays are the majority in brazil

[Dimmauk]

I can't wait to see the costumes and floats! Aww shit did that sound gay?

[Rhinox]

What would the point of Straight Pride be? Like what injustice have straights suffered compared to homosexuals?

What's the point of gay pride parade except to rub it in everyone's face who disagrees with the lifestyle?

If gays really wanted acceptance they would lobby against such displays.

[Skjie]

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What the fuck, Ted Allen is gay?