Just can’t beat that headline:
Since 1997, New York City has turned a blind eye toward anti-nudity and anti-lewdness laws that govern life in the Big Apple as well as the state during the Folsom Street East festival (FSE). This year’s even took place on Sunday, June 21, which, ironically is also Father’s Day.
Described on its website as “NYC’s premiere sado/masochist-leather-fetish themed street festival,” the event attracts approximately 10,000 visitors annually. They claim that this is the largest outdoor event of its kind east of the Mississippi.
The FSE press release stated that “the street will once again be lined with some 50 community groups and vendors that appeal to the LGBT and the kink communities and it will be filled with mobs of leatherclad musclehunks. A one-stop shop for leather gear, porn, and toys. And no throw pillow, magic mops, or tube socks – promise!”
The organization Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) obtained footage of this year’s event, which included scenes of an “electro-torture” demonstration where a half-naked man was strapped to a cross while electric current shocks were sent through his body.
As long as homosexuality is identified with this sort of thing, so long will homosexuality be considered outside the pale by the majority. It is tolerated, but not loved – and that is why gay marriage is running up against an immovable object in the votes of the public. People wanting to live their lives as they see fit – fine; people wanting to have their freak show considered as valid as normal human activities – not so fine. The key to any sort of victory for so-called “gay rights” is for homosexuals to show they are part of us – this sort of thing shows that homosexuals are not at all part of us and, indeed, are directly in opposition to us.