A Question About Equal Rights Clothing...

[Anders123]

For those of you who own 'equal rights' clothing, when do you wear it?

For those of you who don't, when would you wear it? Or would you not wear it at all? If so, why not?

In my day-to-day life, I've never really come across, or noticed, anyone wearing 'equal rights' clothing, ie. 'love knows no gender', ' marriage is so gay', 'equality' etc. etc.

I'm wondering if anyone wears it as a part of their 'casual' wardrobe (going shopping, running errands etc.), or if they are generally reserved to wear for 'pride' events, or even just bought for the charitable support the money will provide.

So, when do you / would you wear 'equal rights' clothing?



(I know, a similar thread was made about bumper stickers, and the majority of people either thought they were 'tacky', or didn't want their car getting keyed or damaged, but is it different with clothing?)

 

[Ram]

I think they are tacky and anyone who thinks they are cool should join those t-shirts in the bonfire I've created to burn them.

And I don't need my clothes to be witty for me.

 

[HunterM]

I don't own any equal rights t-shirts. Haven't seen any of them on the street either.

I do own one t-shirt that says "The other white meat" with an arrow pointing down my crotch though.

 

[Anders123]

I think they are tacky

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And I don't need my clothes to be witty for me.

That's the thing that annoys me about them; the cheesy slogans and 'witty' jokes. I really like the idea of having an equality t-shirt, but all of the available designs I've seen just come across as novelty, and as you said, 'tacky'. They never seem to have any subtle, respectable designs. That's what leads me to believe that most people would wear them exclusively at pride events, where subtle respectability isn't exactly a priority


Jason, that's actually why I've been warming to the idea of it. My friend who just moved to New York keeps telling me about how many gay couples he sees around, and how he never saw any back at home. I live about a 45 minute drive from Melbourne City, and I can't even remember the last time I saw a gay couple in my 'local area'. I don't want to go on some "I'm here, I'm queer, deal with it" crusade with a novelty t-shirt, streamers and glitter - but I do like the idea of having clothing that's a bit of a subtle reminder, if that makes sense.


So, does anyone own and wear equality clothing?!

 

[rjmrjm21]

No, I wouldn't wear it because it's a slippery slope. First of all, everyone and everything is different. Second, I don't believe that people are capable of treating everything or everybody exactly the same way. Like I wouldn't date a 300 pound Grenade--so that would X me out of equal rights clothing.

 

[bendted]

We had to work off-hours one day, and a girl there wore a T-shirt with the word "Recruiter" on top of a rainbow flag. (She's not straight, obviously.) I stopped dead in my tracks, but, ironically, no one either noticed or had a clue as to what it meant. Probably to the average dumb str8 person it looks like a pretty multi-colored flag and nothing more.

 

[TickTockMan]

So, does anyone own and wear equality clothing?!

Depending on how you define equality clothing, I do.


Last year I was president of my local pride. Each of the board members got a free shirt. I wear it from time to time.

 

[Ram]

I like this one though.

 

[G-Lexington]

I don't recall owning any "gay/equality/no hate" clothing, either. Not that I'd have an issue wearing it, but I just don't recall any one that really looked interesting to me. In a similar vein (I think), I don't own a T-shirt for most of my favorite bands, but I have ones for bands I don't like as much...simply because I liked the design. Which, come to think of it, might be gayer than actually wearing gay T-shirts.

Lex

 

[TickTockMan]

Something even like the pic below would say a lot.

 

[Anders123]

You guys are looking at it wrong. You don't need to go out and get "Surprise Buttsex" written across your chests to sport you pride in who you are.

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Rock your pride however you see fit, but try not to think of all the pride shirts as being rainbow colored clusterfucks.

Thanks for posting those haunted! (I quoted the text 'cause I liked what you had to say, too). Those are the types of tasteful designs I'm talking about. As of yet, I haven't decided which, but I'm definitely going to buy one of those

It seems pride / equality clothing would have a much larger market if 95% of it wasn't designed by toothless carnival folk attempting to be witty.