Stonewall Riots and Pride Marches

[PSDave]

you are just learning about the Stonewall Bar? There have been many movies and documentaries and books about the riots there years ago.
As far as wearing speedos in gay pride parades, I see it as an entirely different message. Unlike other minorities that through the years have learned that the best way to be accepted is fit in. When a gay man dances down the street in a speedo, tutu, in drag, skimpy see thru shorts - or whatever - the message I see is, "We are different and we don't fit in or want to, but we want you to give us all the privileges that you have - though our actions do anything they can to alienate us from the regular working and voting population." Do you really expect the Boy Scouts to welcome gay troop leaders when they see these actions? I know I wouldn't want my son going on a scouting trip with the guy that last Saturday was in a skimpy red bikini dancing in the street with a feather boa around his neck.
You see these actions as a defiant stand, while I see them as a way to confirm to the masses that gays don't fit in as a part of society - and don't really want to, but they demand they be treated as though they do fit in.
As the old adage goes; "Actions speak louder than words."