[quote author=Daniel]
[quote author=Garts]
I personally dont see why we should have the event, I have no problems with gays but I dont see why they need a special event to celebrate the fact they are.
you clearly dont know the history of it.
Have a read up on it. it started with protests and there were a few injuries and arrests. It then turned into a festival.
It is just a celebration and street festival I have no problem with it and actually think it is a great thing for sydney and this country
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So because I dont really agree with it means I must not know the history of it :roll:
I know all the history about it, I watched a documentry on it a few years ago. However I dont really see the need for it now, but I dont feel that strongly about it either way to tell you the truth. I just avoid the city the night it is on, never had the urge to go watch it.
Never forget my first month of living in a Sydney, I was a young country boy coming back from my girlfriends place in the east on the Sunday afternoon after the Mardi Gras. Im driving down Oxford Street around 4 or 5pm to see pubs overflowed with people celebrating, half of them wearing arseless chaps. I was quite shocked, never seen anything like that in the country :lol: I guess I expected it on the Saturday but not the Sunday, how naive I was!!!
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not at all. You said and I quote. " personally dont see why we should have the event, I have no problems with gays but I dont see why they need a special event to celebrate the fact they are."
which says to me you dont understand the history or reason behind the event. It isnt a celebration to say they are gay at all.
now I think I will roll my eyes!
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