Gays Accused of Discrimination in Resort Village
“If I see someone nervous like a big butch guy, and you can just tell he’s a redneck, I’ll grab my partner and I’ll kiss him. It’s not being mean, but ‘hello you’re in our town’.”
Nervous? Perhaps uncomfortable, as one might be, say, to an unpleasant odor. Or simply averting the eyes to something one would rather not look at. Each person has the right, yes? Or has political-correctness trumped the freedom of personal choice. Is there no longer distinction between preference vs. prejudice? One should not be judged as “homophobic” if he or she merely prefers to not associate with homos. Just the same as some of them (heterophobic?) appear to feel about straights.
Redneck? In our town? Hello, sounds like stereotyping and very exclusionary.
Reuters reports: “Provincetown, New England’s summer gay capital, is facing a rise in harassment and discrimination. But this time it’s straight people who say they are being ridiculed as “breeders” and “baby makers.”
Police Chief Ted Meyer said straight people complained of being called “breeders” over the July Fourth holiday weekend, and that in one serious incident a man was charged with assaulting a woman who signed a petition to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the only state where it is legal.
Equally troubling, he said, Jamaican workers in Provincetown say they have been the target of racial slurs.
“It’s been a series of issues,” Meyer said.
Can’t we just all get along?
“The flare-ups in a town that overflows in summer with a colorful mix of gay couples often openly holding hands or kissing, cross-dressers and flocks of curious tourists coincide with a planned vote this year in the state Legislature on an amendment to ban gay marriage — a measure that has rallied activists on both sides of the issue.
Gay-marriage advocates have set up a Web site — www.knowthyneighbor.org — that publishes the names of people who have signed the petition, including at least two locals in Provincetown who say they have been singled out and verbally abused by gays since their names appeared on the Web site.
Sounds very McCarthy-like. But don’t expect the MSM to say it. They’re too busy waxing on about a “color mix” of gays and cross-dressers.
Police would not classify the slurs and name-calling as “hate crimes.” But a town meeting was called last Friday to discuss whether social attitudes were changing in the gay resort village with a population of 3,431 that swells to 60,000 in summer and includes a large number of Jamaicans.
Umm, hello, it’s like, words should never be considered a “hate crime.” They’re only words. And since when do we police language? As liberals like to say, it’s a slippery slope…
July 21st, 2006 at 12:07 pm
How… “horrifying”.