all the colours of the homo rainbow

sticky sez:

dear gay,

i was wondering if you could tell me why the homos get the rainbow all to themselves. i saw a little rainbow sticker on a car yesterday and thought "gay" - and looked in the car to see the gay. nothing against them, of course. but if you advertise gayness with a big rainbow sticker i'm going to think about your gayness. and then it got me to thinking about this whole rainbow business. it is strictly tied to the gays now. so i can no longer wear, say, a rainbow belt or a rainbow shirt or hang a rainbow in my window -- unless i want people to think i'm a homo.

i'm not sure this is ok.

i think they should have adopted a made-up symbol so that they wouldn't be hogging something meant for everyone - not just straights or gays or bis. what if the dyslexics decided they wanted 'purple' to signify dyslexia and being a dyslexic and all the rest. then purple would by tied to the dyslexics. i'd wear my purple shirt and people would think "there goes a dyslexic". or midgets decided that their symbol was bananas or a sparrow or a cedar tree. then all of those things would be tied to midgets. i'd look at a sparrow and think "midgets".

but it's a bigger issue with the rainbow - it's such an unmistakable, recognizable lovely part of nature. and the gays use it with reckless abandon to signify all that is gay.

i don't mind people thinking (knowing) i'm a homo but i'd like to be able to wear my rainbow belt without the stereotype.

i think the gays should get a new symbol and leave the rainbow to be unambiguously un-sexualized.

****and you KNOW i'm not a homo-phobe. i mean, look up 'gay' in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of 3 of my best friends. and my dad. and most of the priests i knew in catholic school. (and me in the background laughing at how gay they all are) ****

big and gay,
sticky bee