The big day 'out'! (Gay Marriage)

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Product:	Gay Marriage
Date:	15/05/08 (195 review reads)
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Advantages: Makes people happy

Disadvantages: But why wear pink?

There has always been something contradictory about the "gay and lesbian" community. They say they want to be treated as equals, yet revel in alternative lifestyles. They say they are the same as heterosexual people in lifestyle, yet often behave the most promiscuously in all manner of places. And why is it that nearly all openly gay entertainer's on TV are extremely camp and cliché, playing up to those stereotypes, yet seem to go ballistic when straight entertainers mimic them this way, calling them homophobic? Jim Davidson's slight at the now bankrupt Brian Dowling on some derivate reality show was an example of that irritable contradiction. Dowling had made his name and money from being really camp on Big Brother, yet seemed offended when Jim pointed those traits out that had made his name.

The 2004 law that allowed gay civil partnerships to begin in 2005 was a big test of homosexual's status and standing in the community and a chance for them to become what they have always wanted to be. Equal. It meant a civil partnership in a registry office would give gay and lesbian people equal legal and financial rights as a regular married couple would enjoy here. In the first year some 18,000 ceremonies took place and it seemed a great success. But it wasn't long before gay commentators were finding fault, motor mouth Peter Tatchell, who is the first to have ago at 'straights' if they are homophobic in the slightest little way, came up with a ridiculous statement against gay marriage as it is (in his words):"a process of 'assimilation' or integration into wider society that they reject in favour of a proudly 'queer' lifestyle". So after all that nonesense of equal rights campaigning for gay men and women he comes out with contradictiry dross like that. I remember him getting clumped by Mugabes henchman for doing something as equally attention seeking about five or so years ago and it wouldn't be bad idea to send him back to help with the recount.
The equality is already there Peter but its clowns like you that make it seems it isnt. Just go about your business like all people do and you wont get hassled. Anyone minority who wants to stand out in Brtiain will bring atention to themselves in Britain. Its almost as if these often flamboyant ceromines are some sort of statement that being gay is being different. In my mind you have been unlucky with your mixed up genes and you just want to be with someone you care for.

The ridiculous freak show that is Pete Burns has an all together different take on gay marriage. He said that promiscuity in the gay community is far too rampant and the idea that the gay lifestyle can be put aside for commitment is just not happening, he knowing many gay men that have tied the knot but openly cheated on their partners, in some cases with their consent... His partner of ten months in Michael Sampson was one of them, the two splitting up after taking the vows last year. Burns, 49, who was wed to stylist Lynne Corlett for 28 years, said gay relationships were a "commercial break" compared with the "full movie" of marriage. "I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators". In agreement with Pete was Governor Schwarzenegger of California-his state the home of the gay capital of the world in San Francisco- but Arnie, recently outlawing gay marriage.

Other more famous people to take the civil partnerships in Britain are Matt Lucas, Elton John, Claire Baldwin, plus the two labor MPs of Ben Bradshaw and Angela Eagle, my MP.
So after the initial and expected rush to take the civil partnership vows in 2005, some 16,100 civil couplings formed during 2006, the gay community saw just 1,690 in the first quarter of 2007 and only 2,370 between April and June. The rates have dropped 50% in just one year and a similar drop is expected this year.Clearly you would expect a big drop off when the cork was popped but you would also expect it to be a slower peak curve. Is the gay marriage just as much about respectability and a financial arangement as it is over love, honor and obeying...?
The Lancashire authority has 1.2 million in its catchment area but had just 2 partnerships in January 2007, the northerners having none of that namby pamby stuff going on here lad! The largest fall was 90 per cent in Bracknell, Berkshire, and the smallest was 31 per cent in Barnet, north London. Brighton, Englands gayest city, recently celebrated becoming the first place to host 1,000 civil partnerships. But while 636 gay couples tied the knot in Brighton and Hove in 2006, only 320 did so in 2007. Are we running out of gay people who want to get married or is the cermony unattractive because it doesn't fit in with the often hedonistic lifestyle of being gay in Britain?

Marital Profile of all couples of all sexual persuasions
* 283,730 weddings took place across the UK in 2005, 10 per cent fewer than in the previous year and far below the record 480,285 of 1972. This was belived to be largely due to a crackdown on sham marriages, crucially, a 35% drop in ethnically diverse London.
* 65 per cent of marriages in 2005 were civil ceremonies.
* 40 per cent of marriages in 2005 involved people getting hitched for at least the second time. Chocolate box marriages are on the up though where people want to ge tmarried in idylic chruches. The recent craze is to wed in churches that have appeared in movies.
*148,141 couples got divorced in the UK in 2006, 7 per cent fewer than in 2005 and the second consecutive fall in the annual total. It's the lowest number since 1977 and 18 per cent lower than the peak figure for divorce, which came in 1993, when 180,018 couples split.coinciding with the housing price salump.
* 16,100 civil partnerships were formed during 2006, but just 1,690 in the first quarter of 2007 and only 2,370 between April and June.
Source: Office for National Statistics

Conclusions...

Just before Ken Livingstone was ousted by that cretin Boris Johnson to be London Mayor, he refused to sanction and contribute to the gay and lesbian football world championships in London. His point was that why can't you accept that the best players in the world have this covered every four years and so why do gays need to distance themselves more from footballers who may well have gay men amongst them. Admittedly the current women's soccer world championships has the distinct look as if its played by a certain women of a certain sexual persuasion and the way Ronaldo (the toothy one) is behaving with lady boys these days then quite a few of the best players in the world may well prefer the company of their own. But what we don't need is gay and lesbian people moaning that they are equal to straight people (which they clearly are) yet wanting to do everything separately. Taking the above into account, I'm wondering if the new civil partnerships are really just about people getting together of like mind and making some sort of political statement than actual commitment. The most absurd gay stand I have seen lately is that of a Danish Christian Priest, who, with his partner, has created the worlds all gay cemetery! I find gay weddings more about self-expression than love and with pink and gold carriages pulling up outside the selected registry offices its just more flamboyance in a very showy community.

My final question on this is why exactly do gay women want to look boyish? I've never understood that. I sit to get women to be more attracted to them, which is contradictory as that means the women who do like women that look like men maybe fancy men.


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