House across street from anti-gay church ....

Heard an interview with the guy on the CBC last night and thought it was great. Buckshot through the window or door in next couple of days or weeks but all the power to em.

lukin2006 wrote:

They could just be Apple fanboys ...

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Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

Actually... there's one too many colours.

There is no indigo on the gay flag. At the time it was first conceived (San Francisco in the 70s), indigo silk was too expensive so it being the least discernible colour (you'd miss yellow or green or blue), they just had six colours instead of seven.

This moment in GLBT history has been brought to you be me... who should really get back to work.

That might've been the gayest thing you've ever said here :P

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

Actually... there's one too many colours.

There is no indigo on the gay flag. At the time it was first conceived (San Francisco in the 70s), indigo silk was too expensive so it being the least discernible colour (you'd miss yellow or green or blue), they just had six colours instead of seven.

This moment in GLBT history has been brought to you be me... who should really get back to work.

You're jovial for knowing that.

:P

oh listen... I could entertain you all with my vast and bafflingly deep knowledge of GLBT history.

But I won't.

For now.

As far as the house goes... I hate that shade of violet that he used (which is really more of a mauve) and the blue is too pale, too. And his lime green should have been above the leaf green. But hey... better than I could have done.

As far as the idea... it's either hilarious or just giving the Phelps klan the attention they crave. Two of the daughters came out recently to denounce all that they did and went through. And it's at least encouraging to see that they have broken away.

The fuck is indigo?!

I have a historical question - why is it GLBT? who do Lesbians get their own letter? I didn't realize gay only referred to men.

MotoDC wrote:

The fuck is indigo?!

It's the sixth colour in the rainbow between Blue and Violet.

mydogmookieblaylock wrote:

I have a historical question - why is it GLBT? who do Lesbians get their own letter? I didn't realize gay only referred to men.

OK so in the 50s, there were no "nice" words and they just called us "the homosexuals." The men and women would actually socialize in the same (usually mob-owned) bars and tea rooms.

After the second world war, a small sub-community began to emerge of returning gay war veterans who didn't want to go back to their small towns after seeing the world. They bought up the old bikes at the Army Surplus, grabbed the uniforms and formed motorcycle gangs. If you've ever seen "The Wild One," that's really what it's about although they made Marlon Brando's character straight and didn't mention the "homosexual" aspect of the story.

By the early 60s, groups like The Matachine Society tried to present same-sex couples as "just like everyone else," but the vast majority of the community didn't see a place for themselves. Gender Roles were still very strict back then and the women didn't to shoehorn themselves into the June Cleaver Home Maker role and the men didn't feel they fit into the modern man with a house in the suburbs and an office in the city.

The men and women's communities grew apart and the women followed a more earthy, sapphic and nature-based culture (calling themselves "lesbians") and the men formed much more urban, hardcore, sexualized lives around Disco and late nights and they called themselves "gay."

By the time the 80s rolled around.. the ERA and AIDS hit our communities hard... those two communities were forced out of necessity to bond at least political alliances. Which is when you started to hear "gay and lesbian" applied to action groups and even parts of town. Eventually that grew... We acknowledged the existence of the bisexual community and although we have little in common with the transexual community, we saw our fights as symbiotic and they too were brought under the umbrella.

And of course as horrible as AIDS was to our community (by the time I was 21, I had buried 15 or so close friends... which hadn't been seen by any generation since the Vietnam War) but it was also the dropping of the A-bomb where we decided we were either going to have to stand up and fight and lay down and die.

Which - of course - is why we tend to be pretty militant and in people's faces. It's the only reason most of us are alive.