It seems that one gay group will be allowed to march in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade next year. And, Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue is not pleased about this change at all. Well, many of us (especially LGBT folks) know that it doesn't take much to give Bill the vapors (or a need for a fainting couch) anyway. However, he is just ever soooooo concerned that the gays (meaning gay men in his mind) will not keep their pants on in the parade. After all, just look what happens at the Gay Pride Parade (presumably in New York).
Now, if you have ever been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, you know that it is (by far) mostly heterosexual folks who cannot keep their pants on. Does that mean all heterosexual folks are at risk of taking their pants off in the St. Patrick's Day Parade? I should hope not.
From JMG:
Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue appeared on Michelangelo Signorile's show yesterday where he repeatedly claimed that gay people might try to go naked in next year's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
"Here’s the hitch,” Donohue said, about allowing gays to march. “They do have dress requirements and other kinds of strictures. The question is, ‘Will the gays behave?’ Gays have been known to take their clothes off in the parade. They can’t keep their pants on sometimes when they march in the gay pride parade.” When told that in fact the St. Patrick's Day Parade gets quite unruly, with reports of drunkenness, violence and police run-ins each year, with heterosexual people certainly not “behaving,” Donohue insisted that they still “keep our pants on,” though he acknowledged he's never been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans where many heterosexuals certainly engage in sexual expression, sometimes unclothed. “We keep our pants on,” he said. “You guys have masturbated on the street. I have pictures of what went on in the Stonewall 1994 gay pride parade that you couldn’t put on CNN or publish in The New York Times. Men and women went naked in the street in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral. I think it is a ‘wow’ when men can’t keep their pants on when they march.”