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News & ArtsTuesday, June 22, 2010
Homo Hardware Retailer Exposes Gays to Temptations of Home Improvement
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Home Depot is sponsoring the Southern Maine Pride parade, marching with banners and plastering its orange logo all over the place, a clear attempt to indoctrinate gays and their families in tow with tempting renovations! But Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, doesn't care about subjecting gays and children to top-of-the-line granite counter tops, state-of-the-art cordless Makita drills, or compost-bin-eschewing lawn and leaf bags of premium durability. In a letter today, somehow, Wildmon only sees this:
Home Depot also signed on as a "festival" vendor, conducting Kid's Craft Workshops for children in the midst of loud and boisterous gay activities. To this end, Home Depot is basically encouraging the attendance of children at events which openly expose them to transvestites, cross-dressers, and homosexual activists.Unfortunately, Home Depot's participation in the Southern Maine Pride Festival doesn't stand alone. It has also sponsored and participated in the 2010 Boston Gay Pride parade.
It doesn't take a genius, really, to figure out that these kids are probably at the gay pride parade because—ahem—their parents are gay. And hour-per-hour, the kids are around their gay parents a lot more than gays at the pride parade, but, even when they are at the pride parade, the kids are being exposed mostly to the fetishization of home improvement. And because Wildmon didn't mention this, I will: Amidst the loud and boisterous gay activities (and kids can't stand loudness and boisterousness), children are also exposed to—abused by, really—the Bank of America.
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I like how they mentioned "transvestites [and] cross-dressers". Somebody doesn't know what "transvestite" means!
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After attending dozens of Pride festivals over the years, I'm still trying to figure out what "boisterous gay activities" these little innocents are being exposed to. Most festivals are pretty damn boring.
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I had a friend who took a job at Home Depot, on the condition that Home Depot "proudly offers full benefits to unmarried partners." They apparently take pretty good care of their gay employees and were happy to use that as leverage in hiring him. Yay Home Depot!
(Unfortunately, he quit the job soon after taking it, when he found out that his girlfriend wasn't eligible for benefits unless they got married. Unmarried benefits, for Home Depot, only extend to same-sex couples, a facet of their policies that I'm sure the American Family Association would just love. But that's beside this post's point.)
(Unfortunately, he quit the job soon after taking it, when he found out that his girlfriend wasn't eligible for benefits unless they got married. Unmarried benefits, for Home Depot, only extend to same-sex couples, a facet of their policies that I'm sure the American Family Association would just love. But that's beside this post's point.)
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Guess Wildmon hasn't figured out yet that these kids have already been "exposed" to GLBT's by virtue of being either their sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, neighbors, friends, etc., etc.
All I can say is: what a tool (pun intended).
All I can say is: what a tool (pun intended).
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I hear that gay people also buy houses - Wildmon might want to live in a grass hut instead of "participating in the lifestyle".
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I plan to engage in a variety of gay activities at NYC pride on Sunday:
•walking around *while gay*
•watching the parade *while gay*
•listening to tinny recordings of diva sung pop songs emanating from most of the floats *while gay*
•feeling bad about myself for not having bodies like the gyrating, underwear-clad 'mos on those floats *while gay*
•most offensively, eating dinner *while gay*.
(Dinner is family time! Why must I corrupt it with my not being a bat-shit christian asshole.)
•walking around *while gay*
•watching the parade *while gay*
•listening to tinny recordings of diva sung pop songs emanating from most of the floats *while gay*
•feeling bad about myself for not having bodies like the gyrating, underwear-clad 'mos on those floats *while gay*
•most offensively, eating dinner *while gay*.
(Dinner is family time! Why must I corrupt it with my not being a bat-shit christian asshole.)
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The last thing the American Family Association wants is gays to domesticate with kids and houses and home improvements. The more they're out marching in ass-less leather pants, the better for their coffers.
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The real danger to kids at the pride parade is that they may see the AFA folks in lawn chairs beating off to the parade.
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@9 where do you think they get those cool chaps and tool belts?
i really really wish @10 wasn't spot on.
i really really wish @10 wasn't spot on.
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I don't know about that.
When I was a little kid, my mom and lots of her friends would bring all of their kids to the parade. after all ITS A PARADE, people throw candy (not anymore and that is seriously the WORST thing ever) give away stupid junk, KIDS LOVE THAT SHIT.
Also drag queens are like the funniest thing to k-12.
I am a gay, so for me the early parades were like a lesson in keeping cool, I wanted to crane my neck and drool over everything I saw. For my straight friends and sisters, its was just another fucking parade.
When I was a little kid, my mom and lots of her friends would bring all of their kids to the parade. after all ITS A PARADE, people throw candy (not anymore and that is seriously the WORST thing ever) give away stupid junk, KIDS LOVE THAT SHIT.
Also drag queens are like the funniest thing to k-12.
I am a gay, so for me the early parades were like a lesson in keeping cool, I wanted to crane my neck and drool over everything I saw. For my straight friends and sisters, its was just another fucking parade.
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@4 Not providing domestic partnership to couples who can legally marry and thus qualify for full company benefit packages is common practice for many corporations and is instituted to to make access to benefits equal for all employees in states whch prohibit civil unions and/or domestic partnerships. Some extend these benifits to straight senior citizens who would have to take a decrease in federal social security benefits if married. There are also state governments which have instituted similar policies. Straight people can marry, they do not need dometic partnership protection except as for seniors, above.
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This guy is a bit late to the party. We've been calling it Homo Depot for years.
Used to be one in ATL (near Lindbergh MARTA) that was a better pick up spot than the bars.
Used to be one in ATL (near Lindbergh MARTA) that was a better pick up spot than the bars.
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I'm mostly straight and I've taken my kids to St. Louis Pride.
They have funnel cakes and live music and a parade with giant puppets.
The horror, the horror!
(I'd quote Dan and say that I'm pretty sure that my boys were safer at Pride festival, than in a CCD class, but that would just be mean...)
They have funnel cakes and live music and a parade with giant puppets.
The horror, the horror!
(I'd quote Dan and say that I'm pretty sure that my boys were safer at Pride festival, than in a CCD class, but that would just be mean...)
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Another straight who's kid has been to several Pride parades, including the Southern Maine one. It was pretty small and chill seven years ago.
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We always took the boys to Pride. We offered them the choice of whether or not to go, and they always wanted to come with us. The first year we took them to Pride (and Solstice), they were about 9 and 12, had been reared in the suburbs, and were a teensy bit weirded out (mostly at Solstice, by people with fairy wings and such), but by year 2 or 3, they were completely blase' about the whole thing, and just enjoyed the big party.
Kids only flip out if their parents do. And to those who wonder how to explain why two men are holding hands and kissing, "they love each other, honey" is a perfectly good explanation.
Kids only flip out if their parents do. And to those who wonder how to explain why two men are holding hands and kissing, "they love each other, honey" is a perfectly good explanation.
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The bathroom is (almost) as important as the kitchen. Well especially for my dear wife. The bathroom is where we prepare ourselves to face the world so yes it's a pretty important room!!
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In Australia there was a TV reality show and a competition on who was the best renovators. A couple of gay guys took out first prize and became celebrities.
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