Posted on 04/06/2009 12:45:59 PM PDT by La Lydia
Washington Activists Liberate One Final Straight Bar: Washington, D.C. -- After five years, 43 bars, 48 events, and at least one instance of a guy whipping his shirt off and gyrating to Madonna in front of confused Georgetown University parents, it was time for a beloved gay and lesbian institution to end. So on Friday night, an estimated 200 members of the GLBT community headed to Rhino Bar and Pumphouse for the District's very last Guerilla Queer Bar, the friendliest of activist movements, in which gay men and lesbians descend on a typically "straight" bar for the evening and mingle among the regulars (motto: "We're here! We're queer! We want a beer!")....
Who's straight? Who's gay? Who knows? And frankly, who cares? Unlike similar events in some other cities, which use a more militant approach to "taking over" spaces, Washington's Guerilla has always been about unifying spaces, and showing the gay community that there is life beyond Dupont Circle. In the early 2000s, this was a unique concept. Washington gays typically clustered at the clubs on 17th Street or at the now-closed Nation. But now there are several gay-straight events (Homo Hotel Happy Hour is the hotel bar version of Guerilla), and some younger gay men and lesbians don't get why visiting a straight club would be thought of as intimidating or remarkable....
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Go away!
Do whatever you want in your own homes.
BUT LEAVE US ALONE!!!!
“BUTT LEAVE A$$ ALONE!!!!”
Fixed it to be better understood by the mo community.
If this pattern sounds familiar, it ought to be: it is the preferred methodology of left-wing social activism, practiced by community organizers and the like for 50 years now, for the purpose of overturning the accepted sociopolitical order.
At the same time, the original target (say, for example, traditional marriage) will have been demonized and subtly redefined as the enemy of "progress", requiring regulation and perhaps even abolition. Think I'm kidding? Wait. I predict that very soon you will begin to hear rumblings about abolishing marriage altogether as a social institution.
“These people do not desire acceptance. They want approval.”
I’ll go one further and say they want DOMINION.
I agree. One of the ways that they are different from most people is that we are all asked to endorse their lifestyle choice and sexual preference. Now, as a straight person, I don’t go around demanding any anyone approve of and endorse my sexual preferences. In fact, I don’t discuss such matters in polite company, I certainly don’t crash gay bars screaming that I’m straight and I’m thirsty. I don’t know any straight people who do. I do not want to acknowledge their sexual activities, and I don’t want them to acknowledge mine. Mrs. Patrick Campbell said, “I don’t care what they do, as long as they don’t do it in the street and scare the horses.” I am pretty much in agreement, and I don’t like to be forced to think about what they do. It is repulsive and off-putting. I can only assume they feel the same about straight people. I would not think of forcing such images into the mind of anyone, regardless of their orientation, let alone in public. They need to get over themselves.
The allure of going out on the town lost it's charm several years ago. This and a lot of related activities are the reason why. We are home bodies anyway, so we stay where we are happy, or visit with friends and family.
There is a reason I have not been to the Du Pont circle neighborhood of DC for many years.
The people I am concerned with are the ones who insist on making the personal, political. They are the ones who cannot "get over themselves" because they are compelled to conflate a personal choice into a statement of perverse religious dimensions, by which they practice deviancy in public venues in order to shock and disturb and thereby provide themselves with a justification for avoiding the profound responsibility that comes with true intimacy.
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