Showing your pride

Do you show your pride? Well, I do, but not everywhere. My gay kitchen clock and mugs are a fine example to show friends my pride, but I don't like to show it outside except when I'm (gay) clubbing. I'm wondering how many of you guys like to show your gay pride. Where do you like to show it? In a bar, when you're outside or just at home? A friend of mine has started a gay merchandise website called http://www.pridestore.eu/ and I'm trying to find out if his website has a chance for succes.

 

i'm not into the whole "pride" thing.

 

I agree with this i beleive I am gay but i dont need to broadcast it.. I also find pride a bit of a piss off to be honest.. In england we got our rights why do we need to go one step more to rub it in?

 

I look at being gay is something that I had to come to terms with, but I didn't choose.

Sooo. . how can you be "proud" of something you had no control over in the first place?

Besides, pride events typically seemed to be used for sexual networking, and that whole thing annoys the hell out of me.

I do believe in the community as a whole, and I think it's good to have pride in yourself and in the things you've accepted over time. . but I don't think gay pride in and of itself is necessarily a good thing.

I'd prefer equality over superiority.

Sm**chies!

Jacob.

 

About 7 years ago I got a tattoo that goes around my left ankle... It has a pink triangle, the rainbow flag, and equality sign. I chose my ankle because it is someplace that I can keep hidden (like at work), but I also wanted to be able to show it off easily when I wanted it to be seen. I am not one who goes to gay pride events, etc... But I do give to various organizations (HRC for example).

 

i've put more thought into the situation.

i'm not the type of person who would be all into a pride parade or whatnot.

however, i would definitely go watch and support the cause.

it's not that i'm ashamed; it's just not my thing.

 

My friend and his boyfriend got matching American flag tattoos. Instead of the stripes being red and white, they got them in rainbow with "We're still Americans" under it.

 

I think shoving the fact that we're gay down people's throats really just further seperates us from society...and yet I can still see myself attending a pride parade, perhaps, and very easily a tattoo like what fastcat did.

While actually being gay doesn't affect my personality, the process of admitting it to myself definitely had a huge effect on me and I don't see why I shouldn't express that part of me to the world.

 

exactly.