Gay Bloggers Fault Folsom Fair
In my last post, I asked gay leaders to criticize San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair for allowing children to attend this celebration featuring public displays of sexuality. So far, none have responded to my invitation.
That said, while browsing Chris Crain’s most excellent blog* (in search of piece to reference in my next post), I was delighted to learn that he had taken issue with the organization for its poster which:
which parodies the Last Supper using leathermen for disciples, a bare-chested Christ, sex toys from wine goblets and members of the sophomoric drag troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence thrown in for good measure. . . .But beyond the sixth grade snicker at doing something that they know would enrage conservatives, what is the point of childishly offending the widest possible audience?
Good question. Combined with the failure to prevent minors from attending, the poster gave Michelle Malkin and other conservatives a chance to criticize the celebration.
She was right to fault the fair, calling the poster “Catholic-denigrating.” No wonder Miller Beer asked that its logo be removed from the poster.
Even Andrew Sullivan found the poster provocative, calling it “Utterly unnecessary” and writing that “cheap blasphemy impresses no one.” Not just that, he didn’t even think the parody was particularly “ballsy,” suggesting they could show some real guts if they did “a similar parody on a sacred Muslim scene.”
Gay organizations do little to promote a positive image of our community when they gratuitously parody religion. At least this time, gay bloggers–and not just from the right–are calling them on it. It would be nice if some of the national gay organizations followed suit.
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*Please note I call Chris’s blog most excellent not because I agree with Chris most of the time. In fact, more often than not I disagree with him, but appreciate the way he expresses himself — and the understanding he has shown for gay conservatives and our ideas.
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I met Chris Crain a few times when I worked at a gay nightclub in DC. He seemed like a nice guy. It’s too bad he had to move to Brazil to be with his partner.
And a little closer to home… Pet Domenici is retiring from the US Senate. WOOHOO! Add another Republican seat to the “in play” column.
Senator Bill Richardson, anyone?
Comment by Chase — October 3, 2007 @ 7:18 pm - October 3, 2007
Of course, the Domenici retirement is relevant because if we can get a substantial liberal majority in the Congress and a sympathetic President in the White House, perhaps we can change immigration law so that Chris and his partner have the opportunity to move back to the United States.
Comment by Chase — October 3, 2007 @ 7:30 pm - October 3, 2007
Firemen Fined and Reprimanded as “Homophobic” for Interrupting Gay Public Sex Act.
Comment by V the K — October 3, 2007 @ 7:59 pm - October 3, 2007
#3
That’s more disturbing than being a two y/o at a leather-fest.
Comment by TGC — October 3, 2007 @ 8:11 pm - October 3, 2007
I agreed with Sullivan completely on the Last Supper poster. Not because a take-off of that scene is or should be off-limits (the blogs have been full of links to other parodies on that scene that didn’t seem to bug anyone), but I agree for all the other reasons mentioned. It was cheap, easy, “let’s piss them off” immature lashing out, and it was also a golden gift to those that hate us. It allowed the Christian- and Catholic-martyr complex to bloom a little wider, with Donohue and crowd crying over Kathy Griffin and FSF posters. (eyeroll).
The poster was a bad idea from start to finish.
Wow: another GOP retiree. Next year is going to be fun to watch. Five’ll getcha ten the Ds manage to screw it up.
Comment by torrentprime — October 3, 2007 @ 8:31 pm - October 3, 2007
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Pingback by Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » Gay Bloggers Fault Folsom Fair — October 3, 2007 @ 9:09 pm - October 3, 2007
Like what? What Muslim scene is as easily recognizable as the Last Supper? A parody cannot be effective if nobody recognize what is being parodied.
The only problem with this parody is that it’s not very original and rather poorly executed. It has been done so many times before, and often much better. In my opinion, the authors would have been better inspired to parody Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, the S&M movie by excellence.
Comment by Thomas Horsville — October 4, 2007 @ 12:00 am - October 4, 2007
Seems like the story was from 2005. Sucker for Malkin, huh?
Comment by sean — October 4, 2007 @ 2:07 am - October 4, 2007
#8
Good one, sean. As keenly observant as you obviously are, you must have noticed that Malkin mentioned that it was from 2005. You also must have noticed that Dan already mentioned that.
Real slick there. Keep up the good work.
Comment by TGC — October 4, 2007 @ 2:30 am - October 4, 2007
Yeah, so why bring it up? Because Malkin did? Sheep.
The Last Supper: who would be there if it were today….Malkin or leathermen? No brainer. The sanctimonious bullshit about the Last Supper is insanely funny. So are teh endless other parodies of the Last Supper that Dan Savage has collected on his shared blog. Where’s the outrage over those? No, nothing from the Blame Gays First Crowd here!!
Comment by sean — October 4, 2007 @ 2:36 am - October 4, 2007
Because the festival does not have age limits and still has minors attending.
To an arrogant as$hole? I imagine so.
Never ceases to amaze me that we have to be “tolerant” of the Muslims, but the liberals love to hate Christians and “those dirty Jew monkeys”. You can take your pseudo-tolerance and cram it up there with your arrogance and hate, Adolf.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 4, 2007 @ 7:40 am - October 4, 2007
I wonder how sean or the other lower casers defending the Last Supper parody would feel if an anti-gay group made a parody of Matthew Shepard tied to the fence post. They could put MS in a festive party dress and hat and surround him with crack vials. Would people like sean say “Oh, it’s just a parody. There’s nothing to get upset about. What’s the big deal?”
Comment by V the K — October 4, 2007 @ 8:48 am - October 4, 2007
Back to Chase’s threadjacking, It also has to be reassuring to the Sorocrats that another nut from Texas may be fixing to run as a third party. Ross Perot was very helpful to Bill Clinton in 1992, and Ron Paul should help Hilldog 2008.
Comment by V the K — October 4, 2007 @ 3:57 pm - October 4, 2007
I don’t blog, but can my condemnation count? and yes, it does appear that they prefer (no pun intended) soft targets. I don’t know why.
Then again I got censored at work for putting on an about me list “My dream vacation, go to Isreal, see the Temple before the Palastinians blow it up.”
Comment by The Livewire — October 4, 2007 @ 10:41 pm - October 4, 2007
Why are many Gay Americans facinated with Che Guevara? The guy had a small pecker and he hated gays. In fact he hated blacks and gays and was not shy on letting this known.
Comment by Henry Agüeros — October 11, 2007 @ 11:43 am - October 11, 2007
what many people seem to forget is we worship an awesome god in the blue states. that we may be kinkier than your average bear does not mean that we are areligious.
problem is people see what they want to see not stopping to think that we may in fact be a church/synagogue and temple going people
Comment by ralph — October 12, 2007 @ 3:16 am - October 12, 2007