{"id":473,"date":"2001-06-22T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-22T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:33:04","slug":"the_running_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/22\/the_running_of\/","title":{"rendered":"The Running of the Gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>\u201cThey can\u2019t help the way they are. If they tried to reject their gay needs, it would be just like when Lindsay Wagner\u2019s body was rejecting her Ebonics. I have noticed that the men ones clean real good and make yummy cobbler. And they seem to love Dorothy Garland. I am very excited for the Running of the Gays this sunday, but I hope no one is too badly gored.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Dina Martina, Entertainer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite response to the question, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/current\/queer18.html\">\u201cWhat Do You Think of the Gays?\u201d<\/a> from the really refreshing, irreverant, and mixed set of essays for Gay Pride in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\">The Stranger<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s all I\u2019ll bother to say about Gay Pride festivities, except this: yes it\u2019s wonderful and uplifting and important that we still assert our inclusion in society and blah, blah, blah, but I still hate too much disco and crowds and carefully marketed sponsorship and muscleboy narcissism so I\u2019ll pass and keep doing it my own way each and every day, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey can\u2019t help the way they are. If they tried to reject their gay needs, it would be just like when Lindsay Wagner\u2019s body was rejecting her Ebonics. I have noticed that the men ones clean real good and make yummy cobbler. And they seem to love Dorothy Garland. I am very excited for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/22\/the_running_of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Running of the Gays&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71764,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/71764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}