11/4/2002: Gay Games open

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by jaguar

As for your normal olympics comment, what woulld you prefer i call it, the striaght olympics? The evil olympics for the repressive majority?

"The straight Olympics" works for me. They're not evil, but they're not a reason to not have the Gay Games.

As for alientation maggie, not there, sorry.

Really? Seems to me your disparagement of the games is driven by that very alienation.

If you truly do live in such a totally liberated utopian space that there's no reason to have Gay Games, then good on you. But I don't think you'd have to travel very far before you'd be outside such friendly spaces. We're also within spitting distance of the old "some of my best friends..." canard again...maybe you'd have to have been around in the 1960's to know how hollow that sounds to those of us who were around then.

The world I live in is *vastly* more gay-friendly than it was even twenty years ago. But my glasses aren't rose-colored enough for me to pretend that this is a world that's safe for queers; it isn't, and that's the truth. Maybe you should walk a few more miles in queer shoes before you tell me how good everything is.

I do hate gay bar music, though. :-)