Would you ever wear a rainbow colored shirt?

[Lube]

Depends on your personality. My bf could get away with that, but I couldn't. I'm too boring.

 

[reinventedboy]

I am out, but Hell no would i wear one.

 

[igamenir]

Sure, depends if it looks good
i have rainbow theme personal websites, so why not to have rainbow themed shirt

 

[Soilwork]

the only reason I woudlnt' is that although i like the rainbow flag and all it stands for, it's kinda tacky.

I love coming into a gay area and seeing the flags, and I remember the first time I rode to San Francisco all by myself and didn't know how to get to the gay area, I remember looking down Market street and seeing that huge pink triangle and mega rainbow flag and felt like it was calling me home.

but I generally only wear black T-shirts. so that would be a no.

Oh, but I have no problem wearing a T-shirt that indicates I'm gay so long as it's not one of those boorish "I'M GAY GET USED TO IT" things or one of those tedious "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" ones or the preachy "Hate is not a family value" ones.

I'll wear this...

 

[Soilwork]

the flag has a bizarre history.

It's missing a colour because they couldn't afford Indigo fabric.

It was designed really quickly without much thought or input and was just done for a rally.

But it caught on because of a desperation of the gay community to have SOME unifying symbol.

and the idea behind it - that we're from all walks of life but come together as whole - is a nice idea.












it's still tacky.

 

[Irish Queer]

Would never wear a rainbow shirt because I don't believe in this community crap and unity amougst gay men, womwn bisexual and transgender. I believe in being a gay man although I'm not out but I want to be a member of my current community and in order to be accept the whole rainbow crap can alienate people because its kinda an us and them mentality. IMO of course.

 

[Soilwork]

well, Irish Queer.

Good for you.

I hope that you enjoy the recent rights that were won for you in Ireland by all those people you look down upon.

 

[Irish Queer]

Dude I'm not looking down on people if someone wants to prance about at pride strenghtening stereotype that's fine. For me I want to see a world were gay is OK and I believe in order to do that you need to intergrate yourself into the community you were born into you change attitudes and minds.

In regards to rights do you mean Civil partnerships in the North. Yeah well down to the straight men and women who brought that law in and then had it pissed on by the gay community. This rule accepted partnerships again partnerships should have the same rights as married I repete married couples. Then when it came through to same gender couples it became marriage. Like John Barrowman I say its a registered partnership not marriage.

You are right people have fought hard to win rights here but sometimes the rainbow shirt or pride march was not needed. people start revolutions differently some quitely some loudley.

 

[tx_doc]

When I was younger (and more of an activist) I had shirts that said:
Dear Lord, please protect me from your followers (all in rainbow colors)
Nuke the Gay Baby Whales for Jesus
2QT2BSTR8
I Can't Even Walk Straight (always fun wearing THAT to a bar)
Honorary Lesbian (when I tended bar, some of my lesbian friends gave that to me)
and the last one was the word G-A-Y spelled in ASL.

 

[Soilwork]

if someone wants to prance about at pride strenghtening stereotype that's fine. For me I want to see a world were gay is OK and I believe in order to do that you need to intergrate yourself into the community you were born into you change attitudes and minds.

OK, this is a no flame zone, so you'll get the Soilwork-lite version.

I don't "prance" around at pride day, nor to I strenghen stereotypes.

I ride my motorcycle in the parade with my gay motorcycle club because we want to encourage other gay men to come take up our sport and have fun. We like to show ourselves, and in the words of Harvey Firestein, if you want the parade to look like you, you have to show up.

You want the gay pride parade to be more than a big stereotype strengthening day, you'll need to go and show them that gay people don't all look the same, and sorry, you can't do that while you're hiding in your closet.

I AM integrated into the community at large, I do have plenty of straight friends, and I go to plenty of straight bars and I'm just as out of the closet among those people as I am with my gay friends.

I'd also like to point out that if you want a world where "gay it OK" among your straight peers, you'll need to be out to them too. You don't have to wear a rainbow shirt, and you don't have to wear drag. You don't even have to "prance" anywhere. But you need to tell them that you are an openly gay person in their community.

Sorry, but what you're doing now isn't helping anyone, expecially you.

 

[hermanding]

i would wear it. without wearing a dress, i still radiate 'gayness' - word exists?, so it would hardly be a surprise - and it wouldn't look any more tacky than some other shirts advertising pride
ding

 

[Missec]

OK. im not out, so i would never wear a rainbow colored shirt or a shirt printed with the words im gay, but how many of you guys would wear it?

I have a black shirt, with: my mom says I am "SPECIAL" (in rainbow colors).

I have worn it to malls, parks, special events.

I had a woman actually come up to me and asked where I bought it, so she could buy it for her son. So if any of you want to know, its at Hot Topic.

 

[G-Lexington]

Depends on the shirt. I have no problem wearing something that implies or explicitly states that I'm gay, but I have to like the thing. I think a straight-up rainbow shirt wouldn't look good on me.

Lex

 

[Irish Queer]

OK, this is a no flame zone, so you'll get the Soilwork-lite version.

I don't "prance" around at pride day, nor to I strenghen stereotypes.

I ride my motorcycle in the parade with my gay motorcycle club because we want to encourage other gay men to come take up our sport and have fun. We like to show ourselves, and in the words of Harvey Firestein, if you want the parade to look like you, you have to show up.

You want the gay pride parade to be more than a big stereotype strengthening day, you'll need to go and show them that gay people don't all look the same, and sorry, you can't do that while you're hiding in your closet.

I AM integrated into the community at large, I do have plenty of straight friends, and I go to plenty of straight bars and I'm just as out of the closet among those people as I am with my gay friends.

I'd also like to point out that if you want a world where "gay it OK" among your straight peers, you'll need to be out to them too. You don't have to wear a rainbow shirt, and you don't have to wear drag. You don't even have to "prance" anywhere. But you need to tell them that you are an openly gay person in their community.

Sorry, but what you're doing now isn't helping anyone, expecially you.

Sorry for using prance I'm really glad you told me that and again no offence intented although reading my last post it did come across that way.

I have to amdit my views on Pride are what I see in the news loads of Drag Queens on Floats and half naked men shaking their asses about. A pride march as you said is more so I'll wind my neck in here because my posts can be checky though not intented and self rightous. So again sorry. But turthfully I see no need for a rainbow but its just my 1 opinion.

Dude can I also say very harsh on the out debate there do you think I love hinding who I am? Do you not think I want to find enjl onedealing with the fact that you are gay. I have alot and I mean a lot of personal reasons on why I'm not out inculding an issue that Gay men might find hard to deal with. So please remember that there are always those in the closet and we shouldn't judge because we may think we know whats going on in their lives but we don't.

 

[MindBlast]

Depends on the shirt. I have no problem wearing something that implies or explicitly states that I'm gay, but I have to like the thing. I think a straight-up rainbow shirt wouldn't look good on me.

Lex

I agree, except I have a little bit more of an extreme view.

My view is:

It's 2007. if you're wearing a rainbow shirt as anything other than a costume at pride or some event, you should probably re-examine your wardrobe. Even with the aforementioned exceptions, I wouldn't be caught dead in one. The same goes for mullets and those 70's style moustaches.

As a side note, the main local gay bar here has issues with that exact thing. They barely play any new music. All they play is stuff from the 70's and 80's. People who frequent it generally dress like they're stuck in that time period.

In conclusion of my little rant, I would say that screaming to the world that you're gay shouldn't mean that you're also screaming to the world that you don't have a clue how to dress. If you're gonna do it, save most of us the pain of having to see that awful shirt, and just wear something that looks good with some gay and humourous slogan on it.

 

[Soilwork]

I have to amdit my views on Pride are what I see in the news loads of Drag Queens on Floats and half naked men shaking their asses about.

I've said this a million billion fucking times.

What you see on TV isn't what actually happens on Pride Day... not even close. The three second clips you see on TV are about 2% of the whole show... which is mostly just a bunch of regular guys and gals having fun.

Dude can I also say very harsh on the out debate there do you think I love hinding who I am? Do you not think I want to find enjl onedealing with the fact that you are gay. I have alot and I mean a lot of personal reasons on why I'm not out inculding an issue that Gay men might find hard to deal with. So please remember that there are always those in the closet and we shouldn't judge because we may think we know whats going on in their lives but we don't.

OK, well, honestly you have to take back what you said earlier about hot you wished you lived in a world where gay was ok. I know that there are some people who think they have a good excuse to stay in the closet, and I'm sure your excuse is totally different that all the other ones i've heard a hundred times each.

If you want to live in a world where gay is ok, you have to start living in that world. You have to do the work yourself because nobody is going to change your world for you. If you think that I wanted to come out or that I was looking forward to losing friends or being alienated from family, you're wromg.

But I did it because i knew I had to. Because the only way to grow up and become a real man in this world is to own up to all you are and live life on your own terms.

It not fair for you to say anything negative about the gay pride parade at all. You're not out, and since you're unwilling to show up to the parade and show yourself, you haven't earned the right to criticize those who do.

When you tell your friends that you're gay, when you join a gay soccer team and march with them in the parade, and when you openly live as a gay guy (and that doesn't mean you have to wear a rainbow shirt, by the way), THEN you will have earned the right to criticize other floats in the parade.

Funny thing is that when you show up and take part, you'll kinda get it, and probably not WANT to criticize the drag queens or fat topless lesbians.

 

[skibby]

I love the dykes on bikes, I love the leather boys, I love the drag queens - they're part of my community. I don't want to integrate. I'm proud and happy to be gay and if I wanted to wear a rainbow shirt I would. I don't want to be like straight people, I just want to be the fairly well-adjusted, happy gay man that I am. Come out, you'll like it.