A dilemma that even came up in conversation the other day--how to quickly tell who's gay and who's not--has been addressed by one of my new, favorite authors:
"All that product - along with the ear piercing, the supportive freedom rings, the religious devotion to "Project Runway" - now that these things no longer separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, we need new ways to identify one another. I propose, therefore, the following list of further possibilities. The heterosexuals will doubtless render them useless, one by one, but still I think these might last us for a while."Click here for Joel Derfner's article from Pride Source, "Ways to be Gay".
Now I'm not so sure how much of a fan I am of these (personally, I've been supporting the less creative and more obvious rainbow wristband), but you gotta admit they have, at least a sort of, distinction. (As in, they distinctly stand out.) This goes along nicely with my belief that the more our friends, neighbors and ideological enemies get to know us for us, and the more we are visible in our day to day lives (and not so much Pride-float-in-a-thong, gyrating-and-thrusting to dance music) then the more we will be accepted and the less we will be judged based on stereotypes.
Derfner ends his top 10 list with "your pick": so what do you suggest we take up as a way to promote our visibility?
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