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Reflections On Gay Pride Day And Some Wonderful Memories From Long Ago


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2022 Jun 5, 4:21am   669 views  12 comments

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#gayprideday Yesterday afternoon, I went to Table Wine Company. There was a well-attended event honoring Gay Pride. I had a wonderful time. I bought some nice wine and beer.
My mind went back to 1968-1969 when I was a young college student in Houston. In those days, gay relationships between two people were a criminal offense. A gay person could not serve in the military or get a security clearance. It was a dark time that only changed after decades of protest and political lobbying.
All those years ago, my first wife and I had a special friend. His name was Larry Waldstrasse. He had graduated from MIT. He was a NASA engineer at the Manned Spacecraft Center. He also owned a small apartment building on Waugh Drive in Houston. It was located in an area known to be favored by gay people.
Larry normally rented apartments to gay people. He said that they were model tenants and never wanted any sort of problems from the authorities. We moved into an apartment in Larry's apartment building. We were the only heterosexual couple in the building. We lived in a beautiful apartment that was rented for $90 US per month. My first wife could walk to her job at Southwestern Bell Telephone. We were very close to our most beloved Mexican restaurant. My father would come to visit us regularly. He was aware of who our neighbors were. He had no problem with it.
I have only wonderful memories of that time in my life, our friendship with Larry, and our neighbors.

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1   BayArea   2022 Jun 5, 4:44am  

That’s wonderful

But you don’t think the pendulum has swung WAY too far today?
2   clambo   2022 Jun 5, 6:41am  

I’m old enough to remember that being gay wasn’t particularly made public, but neither were they bothered by normal people.

I don’t doubt that in Texas there was more bigotry towards them in the 60’s.

I used to know a lot of guys who were gay, they’re all deceased.

Edit
For a couple of years around 1984 I lived in a cool house in Capitola, CA with a gay guy.
We were hundreds of feet from the beach and Jack O’Neill’s house.
He threw some fun parties.
Today some rich guy owns it no doubt.
3   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Jun 5, 2:16pm  

ohomen171 says
It was a dark time that only changed after decades of protest and political lobbying.


It was rammed down our throats basically because the Vile disgusting Democrats that will do anything for a win. Figured out they could use the Gay and every other Deviant fuck community to drive a wedge between the sensible and gullible to make the absurdity of Fags demanding an audience, those repulsed by it, fault.
Blacks and Hispanics are walking away from the party because they thought, it was just some mind fuck shit they were doing to the Archie Bunker types. Now they see the Evil bastards at their kid's schools trying to groom them for Muslim refugees and Pedos to rape, and not tell their folks.
4   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Jun 5, 2:20pm  

OH and happy Pride Month!
Save a news paper, it will be a crazy chapter in Human History. Someday Historians will tell their Students, how Rome, Greece, and the Democrats all once embraced Sodomy.
And how it was all of their downfall.
5   Ceffer   2022 Jun 5, 4:55pm  

I have had gay neighbors in every hood I have lived in California. By and large, exemplary neighbors except for the drugee crazies that used to be across the street in Santa Cruz.

There are at least three gay males and one lesbo in my hood in Santa Cruz now, all fine except for one who is on the crazy side but avoidable.

I am surprised that the more conservative gay community have not disowned the radical exhibitionists and child molesters who are being used as useful idiots to create social upheaval and subversion. I can't see any of this actually serving their interests in the long run.
6   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Jun 6, 6:22am  

DooDahMan says
R u sure the fall of Rome had nothing to do with the following ?

Rome began to face many problems that together allowed the fall of the Roman Empire. The three main problems that caused Rome to fall were invasions by barbarians, an unstable government, and pure laziness and negligence. we got the last two of the three going for us right now !


How ever Rome failed, their openly Gay culture, did not survive the Power conversion. Same with Greeks and other cultures that once had openly gay cultures.
And in Caligula's case forced participation.

DooDahMan says
not to mention the stellar job the Southern Baptists and other fine Evangelical Organizations have done.


OK can you clearly and concisely outline what exactly the "Southern Baptist" did to you, or Society as a whole. Summarize your gripe with them, if you can?
You do realize the Southern Red Necks with gun racks in their pick up truck, with a "God is my Co-Pilot" bumper sticker, hauling ass down a gravel road with a dead nigger flopping around the back tethered to a rope. Is purely a Hollywood fabrication, and never actually happened. It's the America version of Nazi Germany publishing anti Jewish propaganda depicting them as Rats, with hook noses.
7   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Jun 6, 6:56am  

DooDahMan says
Brothers-in-law William Moore Sr. and Frank Gebhardt allegedly bragged about killing 23-year-old Timothy Coggins to children and adults, girlfriends and acquaintances. They even argued over which one of them was truly responsible for Coggins’ 1983 death — not for fear of being caught, but because they felt the other was taking undue credit, GBI Special Agent Jared Coleman testified in a cramped courtroom inside the Spalding jail

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/suspects-bragged-about-dragging-black-man-behind-truck/OnC4gdAscJXsmOi6crfDsI/


No date given, no other facts, just a long ass tome of Liberal hate porn about Southern Jesus freaks.
Did you try clicking the ling to the original article they are supposedly trying to cite?

No No Seriously click on it, it's the best fucking part!



You linking your proof to that bullshit site, would be like me posting an article from the Daily Stormer, which coincidentally seem to have the same styling and layout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer

8   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Jun 6, 7:08am  

DooDahMan says
I've never run across that in any of my digging


I don't ever expect you to uncover the truth digging through curated content, that is Google.

You do realize that Google is not a valid substitute for the truth, don't you?
9   WookieMan   2022 Jun 6, 7:20am  

Gayness is not normal in men. Shouldn't be promoted. Guess who gay men rely on, another man. Lesbians can sometimes make it work, but even then, they have to rely on a man at some point to survive. This is nature and is inarguable. We are animals. Just because we have language that can be manipulated doesn't make it right.

A gay squirrel is going to die. It won't procreate to help keep their population at a healthy level and squirrels would eventually die off if enough were gay. Not the best example, but every living thing was designed to fuck the other sex and make babies to survive as a species. Basic science. Can't do that if you're blowing your wad in the shit hole.

I don't have a religious bone in my body, though I respect people that believe in what they believe in as long as they're not pushing it on me. Mine is a science take though I tend to agree with the religious people on gayness. I'd love to have a threesome with two chicks, but 9 out of 10 times those chicks that would be into that are straight. A true lesbian has no feelings for a man. Nature eventually natures.

We could be lynching gays in 30 years and it's normal (not suggesting this). We had the ability to destroy 2 cities in Japan and did it. Humans are fucked up. Nothing is out of the realm of possibilities.
10   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Jun 6, 8:41am  

I really don't have anything against Gay people. The Hot Terd they kicked on a very steamy hot day, is the fact, that a Sane sensible Heterosexual Person/s can't have as much of a strong feeling against Gay people that Democrats are blindly allowed to have over a Trump supporter. The fact that we had people who were getting assailed for wearing a MAGA hat, and the Law Enforcement's take on it was "Well you provoked them, so it's your fault" even when people were snuck up from behind and shot point blank in the head for it. The Police and Media's stance on it, was still, "Well he had it coming for provoking ANTIFA and BLM with a MAGA hat!"

We have hate crime laws in this country, but now we understand, they aren't hate laws. They are edicts to protect one class while suppressing the rights of another class.
A Liberal can use a racial epitaph while blasting someone away, and there will never be a hate crime charge.

When my rights are infringed to bolster special rights that are used against me, and to hold my family back and down. That's when they lost me.

Keep you faggy thoughts and deviant shit to yourself. I no longer am interested in entertaining the idea that it is rational sensible behavior that should be promoted by anyone for any reason.

I wont ponder what you do in the privacy of your own space. But don't dare to come out and promote it and thrust it onto others.

If you go back and read all of my posts from the beginning of Patnet. You'll find my sentiments are always a bellwether for political sentiment.

The worm is going to turn hard and fast, if I were gay, I would be taking a serious look at getting those thrusting themselves on humanity as the Gay movement spokes person. For they are doing a huge disservice. Society will go from not giving a shit to who Frank pegs in the asshole, to throwing them off a sky scrapper for it.

All it takes is people reaching their limit of Political agitation.

Political agitation = Dedicating a whole month to grooming your children in elementary school to get soddomized and not snitch the Liberal out for it.
11   Malcolm   2022 Jun 6, 9:33am  

You had dealings with a nice person. There are shitty gay people and there are nice gay people, just like in every aspect of society. The fact that you feel the need to post this is part of the problem. NO ONE CARES that he was gay. Do you want his epitaph to read, he was a good gay person, or simply, he was a good man?

I really wish this crap would stop.

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