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The Amazing Inflatable Gay Snoopy
"Gay Pride", Real Pride, and Why All Parades Generally Suck
by Jason Roth
"Gay pride" parades are an interesting phenomenon. Rather than dragging around bunch of inflatable, gay Snoopies, or even driving flower-covered trailers (which, frankly, I'd expect to see at a "gay pride" parade even more than I would at the Tournament of Roses), instead, these "gay pride" parades feature half-naked bodies, S&M displays, and, of course, one shit load of flamboyance.
The question is: what is "gay pride"? The word "pride" is defined as the state of having self-esteem. But what exactly is the object of one's esteem, when one exhibits "gay pride"?
Let's see. I tried to think of similar uses of the word "pride", uses which specify a type of pride. A quick search on the Web resulted in:
- "Jersey Pride"
- "Atlanta Pride"
- "Utah Pride"
- "Southern Pride"
I even found:
- "DOJ Pride"
- "Black Pride NYC, Inc."
If I told you that all of these were organizations, you might assume, for example, that "Jersey Pride" is a group of people who believe that their home state, New Jersey, is an exceptional place to live.
However, you might be interested to know every one of these organizations is a gay organization. That is, every one except "Southern Pride", which, interestingly, is a manufacturer of industrial barbecue equipment. (I have a feeling that "Southern Pride" may have started out as a gay organization, until a bunch of gay-haters decided to beat the shit out of the gays and start cooking meat.)
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