NEWS: Day Set Aside to Celebrate How Great It Is To Be Not Gay

You're going out of your way to feel offended by me and by this contest, the girl-on girl action only reinforces that these people aren't homophobic (and have you ever seen 3 people kiss? it's a funny thing, and all but impossible to manage without some sort of homosexual contact). I also feel I should point out that I didn't say that I have a problem with hating intolerance, in fact I chose my words very carefully. I wasn't being disingenuous, I was just trying to expand your point of view.

The way in which gay or bi-sexual people could have participated is by reaching out to the people who started the event and ask them to be more inclusive--maybe they even did and were brutally shot down by the organizers--I don't know any more than what I read. My point, my main point through all of this, has been to provide some defense for the seemingly good-natured people who organized this event because at least from the perspective of the article I read, it was done in good faith. It strikes me that most of the people who belong to this site should appreciate attempts, especially by the so-called conservative side, to raise sexual awareness, even if they didn't do a perfect job. They certainly don't seem to deserve the derision and contempt offered by many people here

The point, as I saw it, in the article was that sexuality in general needs to be more open in this country, and the best way to achieve this is to reach out to the majority (who are heterosexuals).

I certainly don't think that a kissing contest had anything to do with a band of bloodthirsty straights trying to rub it in on the poor defenseless bi/homosexuals and keep them down. I fail to see how people making out (even accepting so-called homosexual behavior) is anything but good fun (unless there were events like pin the tail on the demon-gay or burn the effigy of the BI-sexual that weren't mentioned in the article I read...). I guess I'm just not as bitterly cynical about kissing as some people

** We want bestiality!!! ** We want bestiality!!! **

** Go Longhorns!!! ** Yay team!!! **

Duh, because it's a choice, obviously!

Hmmm. Straight? Bi? Gay? What was it those nice Young Republicans told me? Oh, I'll go with straight!

I love the title the school paper gave this article:

I wonder how many people participating have had their hep a-b vaccinations?

Or if they've been tested for cooties. People think cooties can't be spread by kissing, but they are wrong.

Of course I accept the premise of a hetersexual pride day just as much as I do of a gay or bisexual one. If I didn't I'd just be being a bigot. Was what they did necessarily a good idea and did it advance the cause of acceptance? I'm not sure. They say everyone had a good time and all but who knows if thats true. All I know is that if they want to do that then they should. And if other people want to be offended by it and protest it or whatever then they should too but there is nothing wrong with being proud of who you are and as a straight middle class white male I don't feel like I should be anything but proud of who I am not for being any of those labels but b/c hey I'm me and I like me (well sometimes at least) and if some people want to celebrate who they are in such a limiting category let them. Have your own party that counteracts it if you want too but don't damn them for having the party they want to have.

Anyone else really wanna kiss the girl that won 2 prizes?

For real. In high school I voted for whoever gave me the best/most candy/baked goods.


"Cupcakes: How Hippies Get Me Not to Hate Them!"

Sexuality in general needs to be more open in this country, just not homosexuality.

In my very humble opinon..

What does it matter who you love?

Shouldn't it matter in this day and time that you love.

Al, you are awesome.

Watching American Pie 2 a bit much? I dunno but that popped into my head for some strange reason.

all said sounds like a big excuse to wander around a college campus and kiss whomever you choose. calling it a contest, whatever. it's just a bunch of college kids doing what they'd be doin anyway, but with better publicity. a pretty good hack to me.

As a bisexual, I say good for them. The more kissing going on the better and the truth is that one of the biggest (albeit irrational) fears heterosexuals have is that homosexuals are going to turn them into the marginalized group. Maybe if gays would quit being so heterophobic maybe...just fucking maybe...it would make heterosexuals a little less homophobic.

If we ever want to have anything resembling harmony, we have to get over these petty urges to spite each other whenever we see each other showing a little pride about themselves.

Um, what? Heterophobic?
I don't know a single GLB person who I would remotely describe as "heterophobic". Phobic implies an irrational fear. Any homosexual with a fear of heteros probably arrived at it verrry rationally. And unfortunately, things like this tend to reinforce that rational fear.
I think someone already referred to Nazis, so I'm not triggering Godwin's law here, but a GLB group seeing anything like a Hetero Pride Day is like German Jews in 1930 witnessing Aryan Pride Day.

[Edited on Apr 08, 2005 by skeptik]