Pride Houston creates rainbow crosswalk for LGBTQ community in Montrose (Howe: home, neighborhood)

[okie1962]

Originally Posted by ethanw

Really, just because you put in my face and I don't like it that makes me intolerant? Maybe I need my space just like everyone else. Do you really have to it put in my face so I can acknowledge that I accept you for who you are and I tolerate you just like everyone else? Why the face? I mean at work we're there to add to the bottom line and respect diversity and all that and yet I get this huge rainbow flag in my face. I don't see the same thing at work for memorial or independence day? IN MY FACE just like the rainbow flag??? That's true diversity, lets respect and acknowledge all the important stuff. My point is that I am not against it, I am just against putting in my face like the whole LGBTQ thingie. I am not asking you to stay in the closet, just act normally and do things like everyone else. Why do you have to be so flamboyantly different?

Please enlighten me, what a tolerant person in your view looks like in a situation like this? And try harder than "I am intolerant"

Yes, you're very intolerant. Painting a few rainbows in the Houston gay district isn't shoving anything in your face, no more than Chicago dying the The River green for St Patrick's day.

[txdemo]

Originally Posted by ethanw

Really, just because you put in my face and I don't like it that makes me intolerant? Maybe I need my space just like everyone else. Do you really have to it put in my face so I can acknowledge that I accept you for who you are and I tolerate you just like everyone else? Why the face? I mean at work we're there to add to the bottom line and respect diversity and all that and yet I get this huge rainbow flag in my face. I don't see the same thing at work for memorial or independence day? IN MY FACE just like the rainbow flag??? That's true diversity, lets respect and acknowledge all the important stuff. My point is that I am not against it, I am just against putting in my face like the whole LGBTQ thingie. I am not asking you to stay in the closet, just act normally and do things like everyone else. Why do you have to be so flamboyantly different?

Please enlighten me, what a tolerant person in your view looks like in a situation like this? And try harder than "I am intolerant"

Unless somebody has been constantly shoving rainbows in your face, Barney Frank's reply works for me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

Yea they got sued and lost didn't they, and now they have to reimburse some money to area businesses ?

I did find something called, Renaissance On Montrose Homeowners Association, Houston Texas

Renaissance On Montrose Homeowners Association, Houston Texas - Board Members & Property Manager

That's just one housing complex, probably condos or townhomes, where one would expect to have an HOA - but only within the boundaries of the development.

In general, Montrose doesn't have any HOA that requires dues as a condition of the property deed that covers more than a single housing development. There are some civic associations (the North Montrose Association has signs in the medians on Montrose for example). I think Avondale, which is close to this intersection, has one, but I don't think it is a mandatory HOA; it is voluntary.

The management district would be the most appropriate entity to fund maintenance, as it is funded by commercial properties and apartments, and the properties fronting this intersection are commercial (as is essentially everything along Westheimer).

[Mr. Krinkle]

Originally Posted by ethanw

Do you really have to it put in my face so I can acknowledge that I accept you for who you are and I tolerate you just like everyone else? Why the face? I mean at work we're there to add to the bottom line and respect diversity and all that and yet I get this huge rainbow flag in my face. I don't see the same thing at work for memorial or independence day? IN MY FACE just like the rainbow flag??? That's true diversity, lets respect and acknowledge all the important stuff. My point is that I am not against it, I am just against putting in my face like the whole LGBTQ thingie. I am not asking you to stay in the closet, just act normally and do things like everyone else. Why do you have to be so flamboyantly different? "

I don't see the same thing at work for memorial or independence day?

That's because you probably aren't working those days and watching fireworks.

It's all relative.
Quit putting your Jesus fish in my face
Quit knocking on my door selling me your religion
Quit putting your Trump/Obama bumper stickers in my face

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by ethanw

My point is that I am not against it, I am just against putting in my face like the whole LGBTQ thingie. I am not asking you to stay in the closet, just act normally and do things like everyone else. Why do you have to be so flamboyantly different?

So you want them show public affection in public places just like "normal" heterosexual couples do? (holding hands, kissing, making out, a little smack every now and then, etc)

[Mr. Clutch]

Originally Posted by ethanw

Really, just because you put in my face and I don't like it that makes me intolerant? Maybe I need my space just like everyone else. Do you really have to it put in my face so I can acknowledge that I accept you for who you are and I tolerate you just like everyone else? Why the face? I mean at work we're there to add to the bottom line and respect diversity and all that and yet I get this huge rainbow flag in my face. I don't see the same thing at work for memorial or independence day? IN MY FACE just like the rainbow flag??? That's true diversity, lets respect and acknowledge all the important stuff. My point is that I am not against it, I am just against putting in my face like the whole LGBTQ thingie. I am not asking you to stay in the closet, just act normally and do things like everyone else. Why do you have to be so flamboyantly different?

Please enlighten me, what a tolerant person in your view looks like in a situation like this? And try harder than "I am intolerant"

Just don't go to that intersection and it won't be in your face. Simple.

Some people make everything about them, even when it has nothing to do with them. Get over yourself, no one cares if you're upset that this is supposedly in your face. People are going to be different, sometimes flamboyantly so. If you're mad that this is the case, that's a personal problem you're going to have to deal with on your own.

[rdz1979]

Originally Posted by Dopo

So you want them show public affection in public places just like "normal" heterosexual couples do? (holding hands, kissing, making out, a little smack every now and then, etc)

Thank you for this post. I had a similar response but you beat me to it. Being gay I deal with this ideology often. People that feel like this just don't want to be reminded that there are gay people. They want us to be quiet because we offend their sensibilities. Legally they can't discriminate against us so the next best thing is stealing our voice and shuffling us off to some whitewashed version of homosexuality that they can stomach.

My mother in law is like this. It took two years for her to even acknowledge that I was more than just her son's "friend". She still refers to me as his "friend" in front of her family and friends. She even had the gall to say that we should be sleeping in separate beds. I guess like a Lucy and Ricky type thing. Does she not realize that we have "relations" just like she does with her three different boyfriends, a secret that we all have to scramble to keep. I say "relations" so as not to offend anyone's precious sensibilities with actually talking about (looking around and whispering) men having sex with each other.

Out of sight out of mind I guess.

[fitzy24]

Originally Posted by Thoreau424

Well, yeah. And it's not like the community at large (i.e. all of us) got to vote on it, so to speak. It's ultimately a highjacking of a natural object, and changing what its represented for thousands of years into something utterly different, by a relatively small percentage of the overall population.

If you like the rainbow and want to display it due to traditional appreciation, people these days will think you mean the new connotation instead. So it's also confusing and misleading.

Why couldn't they simply create their own symbol? Artists, groups, and businesses do that all of the time. It's not difficult at all.

God made a terrible mistake by not putting a patent on the rainbow.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by rdz1979

Thank you for this post. I had a similar response but you beat me to it. Being gay I deal with this ideology often. People that feel like this just don't want to be reminded that there are gay people. They want us to be quiet because we offend their sensibilities. Legally they can't discriminate against us so the next best thing is stealing our voice and shuffling us off to some whitewashed version of homosexuality that they can stomach.

My mother in law is like this. It took two years for her to even acknowledge that I was more than just her son's "friend". She still refers to me as his "friend" in front of her family and friends. She even had the gall to say that we should be sleeping in separate beds. I guess like a Lucy and Ricky type thing. Does she not realize that we have "relations" just like she does with her three different boyfriends, a secret that we all have to scramble to keep. I say "relations" so as not to offend anyone's precious sensibilities with actually talking about (looking around and whispering) men having sex with each other.

Out of sight out of mind I guess.

Shouldn't you be equally as upset with the gay establishment that tries to make homosexuals more appealing for straight America? I think they've done just as much to push this whitewashed version of the LGBT community. I don't like the intolerance as much as you do but I've heard it from my older gay friends that they think the self appointed priests of the gay movement such as GLAAD do a lot to push the varied and diverse gay culture into this one homogeneous thing that's palatable for mainstream America.

Just trying to get your opinion.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by fitzy24

God made a terrible mistake by not putting a patent on the rainbow.

You are wrong, he did

Genesis 9:13
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.