A Call to Action....Let's Make Wine out of Whine

For a wonderful kickoff to another week of work, we turn once again to our friends at the New York Christian Coalition, who celebrated Pride with us on Sunday with an announcement that gays should be wearing warning labels (via 365gay.com).

"We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we 'celebrate' a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports," said Rev. Bill Banuchi, executive director of the New York Christian Coalition.

As the article and John Aravosis aptly point out, calling Psychological Reports "revered" is an insult to psuedo-science, much less to psychology. Clearly, this statement came not just from out of left field, but from WAY over into foul territory, and is nothing but sheer illogical lunacy, as echoed Boi from Troy.

My answer? As my dad always puts it, the best way to handle an idiot is to give them a microphone. Since they want gays to wear labels, let's give them what they want..... our way.

I propose a call for action.....a call to come up with a series of warning labels for gay people that express truly what people need to be warned about when talking to us...and then put them on T-shirts that we can wear and other things as statements of the TRUE dangers of associating with gay people.


For example, my attempts:

WARNING: Exposure to gay people is known to cause broadening of thought and can result in the death of preconceived notions and dearly-held stereotypes.

WARNING: Exposure to gays while pregnant may result in your child growing up without prejudice or intolerance towards them.

WARNING: Exposure to gay people may cause addictions to their company, such as friendship and acceptance.


Please submit your ideas via the Comments section or, if you wish for them to remain private, via email at chromium1212-at-hotmail.com. By submitting an idea, you are agreeing to cede all rights to said idea. In addition, if any of you are or know T-shirt makers (preferably gay-owned) who would be interested in doing and helping out, please let me know via email.

Any and all resulting proceeds, copyrights, or royalties accruing to North Dallas Thirty will be contributed on an unrestricted basis to The Point Foundation for its use in providing scholarships to glbt students.

Let's get to it!