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From: "Aleisha Saba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bet you fly the Gay Pride flag but would burn the Confederate and all
> for which it stands?
Don't know about Samantha, but I know _I_ would burn the Confederate flag 'and all for
which it stands for',
in a heartbeat...
As for the 'Gay Pride' flag...well, that's a funny thing...
Seems that for years, the guys who fly the really huge (23 feet by 18 feet), expensive
kites down at the beach
where I also fly, had at least one of these 'rainbow' flags to fly off the line of the
big kites (these kites
pull 1000 to 2000 pounds)...
These guys are married and straight. The rainbow flag had nothing to do with 'gay
pride' to them, these flags
were marketed in almost every kite retail outlet, both physical stores and online. If
anything, people
equated the rainbow flag to the "Rainbow Coalition", which originally only meant civil
rights for people of
all colors...
Then suddenly the rainbow flag got hyped as the 'symbol of gay pride'...and the kite
fliers at the beach never
flew theirs again... ;-)
Two years ago, 2 gay guys came along and were totally overwhelmed with the sight of
all those really huge,
rainbow-colored kites in the sky...and one of them announced that he was going to buy
himself one to fly the
following month at a gay pride festival being held at a park in Hartford...because he
announced that such a
kite, in rainbow colors, certainly was an appropriate symbol of gay pride...(bet he
was in for a bit of a
shock when, if he really did pursue buying one of these things, that the cost of the
kite, matching 25-foot
spinsocks, 300-foot tube tail, and all the necessary rig to launch, fly, and keep it
anchored runs $2000 to
$2500)...not to mention understanding the DANGER involved in trying to handle one of
those things without
training)...
I have a rainbow-colored windsock in the shape of a trout. These too have been
marketed in kite outlets for
years (we attach various types of windsocks not only to kites, but to the flying line
as "line candy")...
This past summer, someone started selling these windsocks on Ebay, hyping them as
"show your gay pride, fly
one of these rainbow-colored trout windsocks"...so apparently I now have a gay fish...
;-)
Next we'll be hearing that all those St. Patricks Day images of pots of gold at the
end of rainbows shows gay
Irish pride... ;-)
So the point I'm trying to make is, just because someone is flying a rainbow-colored
item does NOT necessarily
mean they are making a statement regarding homosexuality... ;-)
June
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