Archive for June 13th, 2009

There’s a gigantic float parked across the street. It’s for the GMAD (Gay Men of African Descent), which keeps its street cred by not including women (I kid, I kid). It has a sign that reads “Serving the Black Gay Community for Over 20 Years” and if my wife was better, I would insist she take a picture of me sitting on it and wiping my mouth.

There’s also a street fair on Prospect Park West (they shut the street down — seemingly all the way to Grand Army Plaza) which is like any other street fair but for the inordinate number of gay people trying to give out stickers.

The reason I bring all of this up is that I went to get the glowing wife a bagel earlier and some young kids (early teens at the latest) were heading towards the park for a little league game and one boy was pushing another boy and pointing towards Bartel Pritchard Square (which is now festooned with rainbows of balloons) and saying, “That’s why you’re going to the gay pride parade! That’s why you want to go to the gay pride parade!”

Two elderly Irish ladies happened to be standing next to them waiting for the light to change. One said to the taunter, “Tat’s royt. ‘eez goan to dah ghi proyd pareed and good fer him!”

The light changed. The women crossed, the boys stayed behind and, once the old ladies were out of earshot, the tunted boy said, “I ain’t no faggot!” which caught the attention of… a pack of greasy lesbians (I’m not trying to foment stereotypes here, but they all had on wifebeaters (ha!) and slicked back hair and were calling each other “nigger” despite all of them being Hispanic).

As interested as I was in seeing how publically humiliated these boys were about to become, I sped home to feed the Mrs.

But if you see some young boys hanging by their underwear in the trees of Prospect Park, remind them that it isn’t nice to hate on gays.

And on that note, I am going to see what else I can do to make my lady in the next room happy. Maybe I’ll re-enact Castillo’s beautiful sampling of fuck-ups that resulted in a Yankee win last night…

Or maybe I’ll show her this: