What is the gay lifestyle?

[joeybee12]

Let's have fun with this one. I was reading about Hallmark having cards for same-sex couples, and someone wrote that Hallmark was evil and were promoting the "gay lifestyle." I mean, WTF do these people mean when they say this? Seriously...what are they thinking, because the nutjobs toss this around every chance they get, and other nutjobs shake their head in agreement like they have some insider knowledge as to what this lifestyle is.

For me, it was going to discos and living for going to discos...but that was a while ago. Now it's simply watching AbFab on DVD. Does that make me evil, too?

:hi:

[msongs]

1. systematic destruction of non-white non christian cultures? ooops thats from utah nt

[joeybee12]

2. Non-white? So destroying white cultures is ok?

Hmmm....well, then, I think I'll destroy a few cultures this weekend.

[Arctic Dave]

3. The gay lifestyle is: ! FA BU LOUS!

My daughter would roll her eyes at me for typing that. :)

[joeybee12]

4. I've got three words for you...Fab U Lous!

I was never offended by that skit on In Living Color, but it got lots of people up in arms.

[Arctic Dave]

5. I sit corrected. :)

[joeybee12]

6. Stand, damn you!

Sitting isn't at all gay.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Creative inferior desecration (interior decoration)????? n/t

[joeybee12]

8. I think a straight man entering that career would be desecrating

interiors, inferiorly.

[Sharkfin]

9. Gay Lifestyle

Other then men date men, girl dates girl there isnt much difference.

Young heteros go to dance bars, so do gays.

I had a gay brother and other then his mate was male I saw little difference in their lives then my own, save for their lack of kids.

They owned a home, an old home in Toronto. They both worked, payed taxes, had cars, grocery shopped, visited friends and family, had a nice boat , .

I dunno, I get fed up hearing the homophobic nonsense myself but what are you gonna do. You cant open closed minds.

[joeybee12]

10. Welcome...and you're right...

we all don't do the same thing, so to pigeonhole gay people into something is stupid, which was sort of my original intent.

[benddem]

11. well obviously

it is converting straight people to the "gay lifestyle" or is that the gay agenda? I guess homophobes think that you should stay in your houses with the shades drawn and not go out in the street. I am so sick of those jerks.

[joeybee12]

12. I think agenda is sort of different, the agenda, converting young, impressionable

children, is merely a part of the entire gay lifestyle.

[Poseidan]

13. gay is evil

It consists of doing un-Godly things, such as breathing, eating, paying taxes (which is much like breathing and eating), having sex, working, drinking, and talking.

[Smarmie Doofus]

14. "Lifestyle" was "our" word, rhetorically speaking, back in the early 70s.

Meaning.... some GLBT leaders used it polemically to assert equality of legitimacy with heterosexuality.

It's use was also tied into the idea that one could "chose" one's sexual orientation in the same sense that one can choose one's sexual partner.

It was simple terminology designed to enlighten an abysmally ignorant general public. As time went on we left behind "lifestyle" and it's cousin, the "sexuality is a choice" idea but the other side stayed with both of them.

Out of ignorance and/or malevolence. But we ought to recognize that some of us, or our forbearers, once used this terminolgy and made the very argument that we now correctly dismisss.

[Beregond2]

15. Well...

in the seventies and early eighties, it was going to cruisy bars or discos and picking up a trick. Now, it's either having a Significant Other named PC, or getting married and becoming as dreary as your siblings.

[TechBear_Seattle]

16. No such thing

My lifestyle as a gay man is to get up f-ing early (4:30am), go to work (I start at 6am), work at a desk job for a brokerage firm on the west coast, leave work (at 3pm, if I get to leave on time), go home, fix dinner (I eat around 4:30pm) and either watch television or play on my computer (Spore is still proving to be interesting) before I go to bed around 8:30pm.

Saturday, I clean house and do laundry. I like to go out to dinner with friends on Saturday night.

I would hardly call that a lifestyle, much less an evil one.

[bigscott]

19. sounds like mine as well

I get up earlier and live on the east coast though

maybe we should catch a movie next time I am in Seattle? I hear the straights do that too

peace

:popcorn:

[monmouth]

17. My gay friends are fabulous gourmets, have an excellent eye

for color and style. An old pal of mine from an old job came with me to select furniture when I took my new apartment, it's fabulous. Also, a stunning, biting sense of humor. I find gays to be so generous in so many ways, wish they were treated the same.

[Crowman1979]

18. I always thought the lifestyle involved growing a mustache, wearing leather and acting like a...

...total badass mofo on your motorcycle. Then go the shooting range for practice, watch football with the fellas and play loud rock music afterwards. Oh wait, I'm thinking of gay marines.

P.S. In all seriousness, my unit was probably 10-15% LGBT, but no one gave a rats ass. Usually the self-righteous fundies would be the outcasts.

[Tyo]

20. Our wildly sinful but very tasteful gay lifestyle

We have no talent for picking colors and we are totally unable to decorate anything. In fact, we have no sense of style at all. When we are visiting someone with proven taste we take notes.

Our clothes are chosen mainly from what's on sale at GAP, Patagonia, and REI. We also shop Costco.

Our food comes from Whole Foods, local Asian supermarkets, farmers’ markets or directly from the producer. And occasionally Costco. We spend quite a bit on food, but we figure we save in other areas.

Our idea of splurging on dinner out is $100 for the two of us incl wine and tip. We do it maybe twice a year and we feel guilty afterwards

My partner is an amazing pan-Asian cook. I do three things: pot stickers, shao mai, and manicotti with varying degrees of success. And I wash the dishes.

We hang out with friends a lot, but we all usually entertain at home rather than going out. The straight to gay ratio in our group is about 60/40.

I hate show tunes and musicals. My partner loves them, but he keeps it under control.

My partner loves Barbara, but then he’s the stereotypical one. I think she’s okay. At the moment I like MGMT, The New Pornographers, and Radwimps

We drink expensive gin and cheap wine. We’d like to drink better wine, but we don’t unless we get some as a gift.

We don’t have cable or satellite. We rely on AAR, PBS, and the internet for news and NetFlix for movies and documentaries.

We have one car. Our concern for the environment meshes nicely with our budget. We go by bus, train, and bicycle when we can, but we still drive too much.

We pay taxes and are glad to have jobs, or half a job in my case, that allow us to do so.

We don’t have seven houses.

We are worried about how our Constitution is being trashed, how the economy is tanking, we hate the war, and we hate it that our country has gone down that path that it has during the last eight years.

We’ve been together for a while now and plan to get married one of these days.

That’s our gay lifestyle. Obviously we are a threat to Western Civilization. Eastern Civilization had better watch out too.

[Zuiderelle]

21. My gay lifestyle, is one in which I and my partner wake up every morning

and make breakfast and lunch for our six-year-old, walk with him to school, work our jobs, pick him up from school, help him with his homework, go outside to watch him play with the neighbors' kids, make dinner and sit down to eat, give him a bath, and put him to bed. By the time he's asleep we get about an hour for all our crazy gay partying before we go to sleep. ;)

Oh, and on Saturdays we go to soccer matches and go on playdates with other 6-year-olds and go to corn mazes and museums, and all sorts of other gay things like that.

:)