Comments | bill_sheehan: Out To The Ballgame

bill_sheehan

Out To The Ballgame

Jun 06, 2013 15:14

This is Gay Pride Week in Boston. "Moving Forward.. Proud, Strong, United" is the theme. The week is full of activities leading up to the big Pride Parade on Saturday. Tonight, the Boston Red Sox has announced its first-ever Pride Night at Fenway Park. Boston's LGBT community will be recognized as the Sox play the Texas Rangers tonight, and a ( Read more... )

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xiphias June 6 2013, 19:25:57 UTC

Massachusetts has had gay pride parades since before I lived here.

And I've lived here my entire life.

bill_sheehan June 6 2013, 20:43:39 UTC

Back in the 70s, they didn't get much respect. In 1977, I saw thousands of people on the northwest side of Boston Common on Saturday, but neither the Boston Globe nor the Herald printed a word on Sunday. I called the Globe's city desk to ask why, and was given the bullshit story that they didn't have a reporter to cover it. They *did* however, have a report cover a much smaller event taking place on the southeast corner of the Common...

Actually, the parades have gotten tamer and more family-friendly. (Middle age does that to you, I guess...) The 1977 demonstration was notorious for Charley Shively ripping pages from the Bible and burning them. John "Mitzi" Mitzel recounts it here: http://vimeo.com/56127538

xiphias June 6 2013, 20:53:31 UTC

Once a good chunk of the LBGT community starts raising families, I suppose the LBGT community events HAVE to become more family-friendly.

crossfire June 6 2013, 21:16:56 UTC

What does "family-friendly" mean in this context?

crossfire June 6 2013, 20:35:05 UTC

I'm sorry, I am unable to hear you over the hotness of that picture.

bill_sheehan June 6 2013, 20:47:20 UTC

I swiped it from another blog. (http://bosguy.com/tag/red-sox/ ) That's former Red Sox player Gabe Kapler.

crossfire June 6 2013, 21:16:02 UTC

Oh yes, I recognize Mr. Kapler, he used to play for the Rockies. He's straight, as far as I know.

thediva_laments June 7 2013, 03:50:24 UTC

Holy shit, that's Gabe Kapler??? I need to go to more games.

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liddle_oldman June 7 2013, 15:29:26 UTC

Well -- their God seems to spend all of His time watching people very carefully to see whose peepees they touch. They're just following His example by thinking about peepees and touching them all the time.