We moved it last year just for you, it's time for you to fix things yourself.

But I have to say it looked pretty fun last year. I saw my friends photo's of all the boys and girls dancing in the fountain and it looked like a blast. If they have it downtown this year I might just go...no promises though. I like to keep my options open. (I did watch some of it on tv)

Isn't anyone flabbergasted that SOaP is going to pay off its 2006 blunder on the backs of local community organizations? This year in particular, make Bud Light and Starbucks and Microsoft foot the bill, or, better yet, put SOaP out of business completely by refusing to enter.

My all time favorite parade group? The Topless Lesbian Riot Grrl Muff-Diving Crack Squad, circa '93 or '94. I've never seen such perfectly synchronized pussy eating. Where are those talented women now?

This is why we have to have a free speech march. I don't know if Rufus is gay or not, but it's apparent there's still a need to show that LGBT people represent a diaspora of society. People aren't "real" just because they have a graduate education or are a parent. Everyone is a part of the fabric of society, even those that make others uncomfortable. Do I agree with all of it? Absolutely not. But I'll defend to the core the rights of those people to be who they are. That's kind of the point.

My Ass: If you want a legitimate debate on the merits of whether the event should be on Cap Hill or downtown, lets have it. My only requirement to engage with you is that you use your name or show your face. Your anonymous bomb throwing does nothing to bring the community together and strengthens the spine of those like Rufus.

1) It doesn't matter if we march wearing feather boas or Log Cabin suits, we are still gay, and we will still be demonised because of it. Because it's not our behaviour or imagery that is threatening to the status quo, it's our entire existence.

2) When heterosexuals have similar events at carnivales, said expression is not blamed on their heterosexuality. But oh god, when the gays break out the BDSM, it's all because they're homos, isn't it? See point four about the validity of this train of thought.

3) Carnivales and the like that Pride Parades are part of are not about acceptance, and never have been. They are about community building and letting-off-steam for the group conducting them. They are not a warm-and-fuzzy event for outsiders, ever. Even when they were not focused around sexuality, outsiders were always shocked and appaled at the behaviour displayed. Why? Because it's not about them. It's about those inside the community who really understand what the event is about.

4) Any bigot who is stupid enough to think that just because someone is a sexual extrovert (a lesbian riding a motorcycle, a guy in a G-string and a feather boa, or anything else you care to name in pride parades) they don't deserve the basic human rights said bigot is already granted by society, deserves to be offended, and often.

5) At the most basic level, human rights are not a matter of "majority rules". It doesn't matter if the majority of the population think granting other minority community human beings rights is stupid, and it especially doesn't matter when the ruling system of government does not work on majority-rules facts anyway (which the US government does not do and never has done). So whether or not gays at pride parades are "accepted" by the majority of people in a bigoted country has absolutely zero relevance as to whether or not they are to have their human rights protected by law.