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Having grown up with a life-long concern<\/strong> about being perceived as a sissy, largely due to a long childhood being called a called a sissy or being told not to be one, I opted to participate in Gay<\/a> Shame<\/a> (this year’s theme: A Festival of Femininity<\/a>) by confronting my neurotic aversion of wearing pink for fear of looking too girly, and by trying to look like quite a big sissy. I succeeded, and had tremendous fun.<\/p>\n [Incriminating photos from the lovely Mr Green<\/a>, who wore white, not pink.]<\/p>\n The ladies and gentlemen of the ACLU LGBT Project<\/a> also wore pink at last week’s Pride festivities, or at least bright fuschia t-shirts I designed for them. According to the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n On the other hand, it was down with drab for do-gooders. The ACLU’s fuchsia T-shirts with green Statue of Liberty crowns: simple yet sublimely multicolored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I still hate wearing pink, but I am quite proud \u2014 no, I am quite pleased<\/i> \u2014 to be a big ol’ nancy homo fairy who likes to kiss and hold hands and stuff with other dudes.<\/p>\n And in case you didn’t get it, this post’s title is a shameless reference to Pink Mince<\/a><\/i>, a little zine thing I\u2019ve started publishing. Why haven’t you ordered a copy yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having grown up with a life-long concern about being perceived as a sissy, largely due to a long childhood being called a called a sissy or being told not to be one, I opted to participate in Gay Shame (this year’s theme: A Festival of Femininity) by confronting my neurotic aversion of wearing pink for … Continue reading “Pink Minx”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic","category-ultrapink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36463,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/36463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gay](\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/gay_shame_2.jpg\")
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