By Beauty Damned

Fabulous Fags at Fenway

Sorry. I know the title is not PC, but it couldn't be suppressed.

Robert and I spent the weekend in Hingham, Mass. working. We intended to drive there and back on Saturday, but ended up deciding to get a hotel room (actually it was a motel room and it was horrid - last minute sleeping arrangements are the pits) and staying the night because we were so tired. His friend Dave came with us. We went out to eat at someplace called 99. Maybe you know of it. Really good fried ravioli. Tough, bland steaks. Hugest margarita I've ever had in my life. Totally made me barf. And not because I was drunk. It was just so goddamn big and it didn't want to stay in my belly. Oh well.

So Dave picked up a copy of the Boston Harald while we were sitting there eating our meals and, knowing that I'm a Queer Eye fan, pointed out an article about how Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy would be throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park on Sunday and and how some people were super offended by the whole idea.

"What would Ted Williams think? Would he turn over in his freezer?'' Mary Clossey, a Newton mom of eight who has been a critic of gay-rights efforts, said of the Sox' decision to let three stars of the TV show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' throw out tomorrow's ceremonial first pitch. "I'm tired of hearing about homosexuality. Sunday is a family day at Fenway Park. Why would you want to do that on a Sunday?''

There's nothing I can say in response to that without getting red in the face and wanting to strangle that dumb beeeotch, so I'm just going to let you mull it over on your own.

Aside from the fact that Queer Eye is one of my favorite shows and I absolutely adore Carson Kressley, I just don't understand what the hell crawled up these people's asses and died, causing them to have such a stank attitude towards gays. Oh yeah. It was the bible. The bible crawled up their asses and died.

Some argued that the Red Sox should not trot out the Fab Five at Fenway on a Sunday because it is a "family day'' and may force parents to have to explain what "queer'' means to children.

It makes me insane when I see and hear people saying utterly moronic things like "how am I supposed to explain this to my children?"

How do you explain the existence of homosexuals to your children? I don't know. How do you explain to them that there are people of different cultures in the world who don't live just like them? [what different cultures? Oh, why mention them?] How do you explain to your children that some people don't practice the same religion as them? [those people are going to hell] How do you explain to your children about sex and babies? [you should just never have sex, nevermind the details. Condoms are evil. Babies come from storks.] How do you explain to your children that the world is not a predictable place where everything is exactly what we wish it could be? [you can have anything you want as long as you don't worry about anyone but yourself!] How do you explain anything to your children? How do you explain Love. Nature. The Universe.

Why did you have children if you can't explain simple, basic concepts such as diversity and tolerance? That's what being a parent is about. If the idea of explaining to your kids what it means to be queer is intimidating, what do you do about all the rest?

Anyway, the whole thing went off without a hitch, despite the crying gay haters. Meanwhile, is this not the best picture? God I love that man. I'm a fag-hag and I'm proud, so don't try to stop me.

Pretty in Pink

Posted by Maria at June 6, 2005 05:23 PM