We're Here, We're Queer, We're not Going to Be Your Drunken Secret, Salt Lake City. So Stop Hitting on Us

Hi, from Seattle, where our city motto is “Our lesbians make your lesbians look like dog shit,” which as you can clearly see is true.

What may not be so obvious is that it is Pride Week here. We've been strutting our non-straight stuff for 6 days now, and we're bringing it all to a drunken end today. Well, sort of. With the second highest per capital gay population in the U.S. behind San Francisco, our city pretty much flies the rainbow flag every day of the year. Even so, the legal and social and cultural discrimination that exist everywhere exist here as well. And we need Pride Week each year to kick us progressives in the ass, so we don't get complacent and forget about the second-class citizenship the LGBT community has to live with, so we don't start thinking of the Gay community's political agenda as a frill—something that would be nice to have once we get all of our other goals accomplished—instead of something that is an essential part of a progressive political program. Tolerance isn't equality. And homophiles shouldn't be fooled into thinking it is. So, for one week each year, the LGBT community sends us a reminder.

And they say it with lesbians in wet t-shirts. (Suck it, FTD.)