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Heterosexuals Only

Lauren

Via Liberal Serving, this great protest in Boise:

Stickers saying “Heterosexuals Only” were placed on bus benches and public drinking fountains in downtown Boise and at the Statehouse Monday morning.

A group of gay and lesbian activists, who spoke to KBCI-Local 2 News on condition of anonymity, put up the 150 stickers to protest the legislature’s passage of a proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage in Idaho, which voters will face in November.

…The group says it used the “Heterosexuals Only” stickers to symbolize “Whites Only” and “Colored Only” stickers from past discrimination in the history of the American civil rights movement.

I must admit, when I first saw this picture I got heated and thought the religious right had finally gone too far. Oh, the relief.

10 thoughts on Heterosexuals Only

  2. I approve! Embarrassing as it is to admit, I was watching Oprah just a little while ago and she was interviewing a straight man and a gay man who had participated in that FX 30 Days live with someone you think you hate thing…and Oprah seemed absolutely dumbfounded when the gay men told her that straight people (regularly, voluntarily) go to gay bars. It was very creepy for some reason, I know that Oprah is pretty gay sympathetic but her incredulity made me feel like “wtf Oprah, did you think the bars were segregated?!?!”

  4. Because of the angle of the camera, I had no idea that thing was a fountain until I’d read your post. I thought it was something totally different. Yeah, looking at it again I don’t even know how I saw what I thought– oh, never mind. . .

  5. Hmm, hate crime or street theater? Well what’s the diff here? Heck, even you were pissed. Unfortunately free speech protects everyone, even blockheads.

    Thought-crimes suck.

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  8. Well, I’m glad to hear that the Idaho legislature is doing something about the outbreak of mass cases of gay marriage in their state, and the resulting dis-solution of regular people marriages.

  9. Because of the angle of the camera, I had no idea that thing was a fountain until I’d read your post. I thought it was something totally different. Yeah, looking at it again I don’t even know how I saw what I thought– oh, never mind. . .

    Me, too. I was all, “Why would a fundamentalist want to stake out a bidet?”

  10. Heh… I live about two and a half hours west of Boise, out in NE Oregon red-state country. Idaho is one of the most right-wing places in the USA… as is the area where I live. We lefties who are in favor of anyone being able to marry anyone they want to marry (and not just who some judge says we can or can’t marry) all just have to do our best to get along with the yokels. I don’t know how my gay friends in Boise deal with it sometimes, but more power to them for staying there. I think Boise is a nice town, and I know my friends like it there, although they have talked about moving to Eugene, Portland, or other places with a larger gay community. Because they live in such a place as Idaho, I have to kind of view them as pioneers.

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