To hell with Gay Pride

My friend Leendert and were talking about Gay Pride yesterday (I don't really remember what started this conversation, but never mind) and how it appears that this year children by the age of as young as 13 are allowed on the canal parade in Amsterdam. You know, these things make me furious. Who in the hell has thought this up? Gay Pride is nothing more than a sleezy soft porn show on the water, and you want to expose children to that? I doubt that any parent is willing to let his or her kid attend...

One thing led to another, so we got to the point where I was asking myself where the arrogance from the organisers comes from, to make it seem as if they're representing all the gay people in Holland. I for one definitely do not want to be associated with the Canal Parade and I think it only forces the stereotypes down people's throat. Imagine you're a Christian family living in some rural village, and once a year you get the Gay Parade right there on the eight o'clock news. Changes are you don't know any homosexual in real life, so your point of reference is decided only on the images on tv. No wonder there are still so many people who think that all homosexuals are just in it for sex, and walk around with theit clothes of in public all day long. Who can blame them? It's the image the homosexuals force on society themselves.

I think of myself as a pretty normal guy, who happens to like guys instead of girls. That doesn't make me different in any other aspect of life, so why should I go around and dance naked on a boat to show the world that I am different? I don't get this, gays want to be accepted, but at the same time distance themselves from 'normal' life. If it were just them calling out an image on themselves, then fine. Just don't drag me, along with every other average gay guy, in it too!