"Those gays ruined my sheets!"

Tuesday, March 14. 2006

When I was first trying to come out to my mother (yes, you may know how the story goes - you know, she knows, you know that she knows, but the pink elephant can be ignored), she started quite passive agressively blurbing out homophobic comments. It was, I guess, her way of saying, "I know what you're up to, and I don't agree."

The comments started with, "Oh, my goodness, did you hear that Jodie Foster is a lesbian?!" There were others I don't exactly remember, but the one that will always remain in my heart was [as my mother pointed to our bedsheets we have had since the 70's, with rainbows on them], "Why did gays have to pick the rainbow as their flag? They have now ruined my sheets!"

So, yes, those gays have forever ruined all that which is rainbow-colored. So...how about Rainbow Brite as our poster girl, ladies?

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I always thought the rainbo logo is a bit too '70s or early 80s unicorn tacky. Can't we come up with a more sophisticated logo? Maybe there should be a queer logo that's not oh so literal with the whole rainbow / diversity them jumping out at your face.

#1 Anonymous on 2006-03-14 22:22

Yeah, i think it's time our flag had evolved. no longer are people unable to understand that gay people are generally colourful. and the rainbow should be left to something else that's more in need to suitably takes the place of that meaning. i think we need a more subtle more appeasing logo. maybe modern, fresh, universal, simple, and bold. or maybe not have one at all.

i dunno...its a thought tho.

#1.1 Junnaz on 2006-04-15 00:13

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