June is Pride Month LGBTQI A plus Pride month. I know that we're living
in a world right now that many are like not liking that. I know
we live in a world where they feel that being gay or lesbian or any
part of that stuff is eighteen plus and that it should not be discussed a
age before eighteen. I know there's a whole consgency of that, but I
might hear for all those discussions. I just wanted to acknowledge those are things
that are going on right My thing is because I come from a time period,
because I'm fifty to fifty plus, I just remembered the repression and and
that just not talking about it of any of those alphabets back in the day
in the seventies was the gay liberation a long with the you know, women's
lib and all that alhmed in the seventies, but it was still a sub
set. I remember when you wanted to be gay, it was meant to
be means that you were different. You weren't trying to be like anybody else.
You were doing your own thing. You want you wanted to have,
you want to have equal rights, but just like you were not worried about
children and marriage, and it was just like being gay as being doing you
didn't want to be the hetero norms. But there there were gay ghettos kind
of popping up everywhere, like like Castro Street in San Francisco, Christmas Street
in New York. I was just like, we just don't live our lives,
just to just do your things, not be bothered, blah blah blah.
Then the eighties came and ate it and a whole general ration just got
wiped out, mostly boomers. Selfis gen X, but mostly boomers that just
got white the f out. And that was that right, And then the
nineties was kind of a resurgence. There was lesbian chic RuPaul came out,
It was coming out at the beginning. Shows were including gay characters, Will
and Grace, you know, Llen. It was all all this stuff started
happening. So I've seen I just as a fifty plus person, I just
seem the evolution of from not talking about it, to talking about it in
certain bubbles, to death to now let's go mainstream and to where we are
now. We have seen it all. I was fifty plus people, hey,
by fifty plus, we have seen it all. The evolution, and
I get I get nervous that were going backwards because of some people and I
and I always get nervous because the emphasis is always on sex because he said
it's sexuality, it's sex. And I'm type of person who's like, yes,
there's age appropriateness for everything. But to say someone but to not talk
about gayness until after they're adults, This makes sense to me. You can
talk about love without having to use sex in it. There's if I mean
they're a gay kid, I believe you're born with it. So so if
I lose some viewers listeners, I get it. But that's I just believe
that. But I feel like there, but you're right, there are agent
but I also do there are age appropriate things. I totally agree, and
conversations just like they're age appropriate chores or age appropriate even if you're straight.
There to me, there are age appropriate things and a straight world A lot
of times you know, we got we got you know, parents are sex
for the kids and all those of some stuff going on. I mean,
and no one Betts and I but I'm like, yes, I had a
sexualized kids. When you're gonna be a heartbreaker where you get older and you're
a little womanized and all and making it cute. See it's like, well
that's detrimental too. And I know back in the day we didn't think much
about it and just it was life and whatever. But I think I agree
when it comes to sex and sexual acts there's an age appropriatus that should happen
along the way. But in terms of just saying people are different, and
everyone that people are, people have different lifestyles, are just different. And
these two people, these people love each other, the two women and two
men, or these two love each other ones there's an older man a younger
woman, like or interracialness. These two love each other. She's Pakistani and
he's Indi, he's Chinese or something like. It's all should it all to
me? Should all be in the same swath of like you always say,
love is love? Like ate what is like they love each other and and
race is not a part of it, or this is not a part of
it, or it's not a part of It's just it's just they love each
Other's all you do. Know at certain ages, my grandchildren have grown up
with friends had same sex parents, and my grandchildren aren't warped or anything for
it. So Peyton has two moms. Okay, I got it. And
so also has two dads. Got it. It was no big deal to
them, Like that's that's her parents. Got it. My parents happen to
be you know, man and woman. Okay, got it. And I
think I think there's a cloak of shame and wanting to eradicate anything that's not
the straight, hetero Christian norm. And I always say this, even if
you're straight, you know, I don't folks who are atheists and agnostic.
And some go to church, some don't go to church. I mean,
there's some want kids, some don't want kids. There's a there's individuality.
That's what we I I want to have individuality. That's the number one thing
you have. I mean, And again, being a jet ex making fifty
plus, many of us are older. We released one Live for our Golden
Years, drama free. For the most part, we just want to live
our lives like it's golden and go out there and just do our thing.
And this it's our time to go. Look, really make enough money to
pay the bills, go on some trips, you know, they see the
grandkids. Whatever. That's all we're trying to do over here. So I
just for pride, but happy pride. It's it's a shame we still have
to have it there. In my opinion, there is no gay community that's
together and there isn't. So my hope is at some point that will possibly
happen. A community will happen again with leaders who are inclusive and diverse and
really care about the letters that are in this thing we have together, plus
being a conduit to the non letter folks out there, and we all just
live together. Yes, Utopians, just id you want it m hm?
But I but your happy pride and happy June m hm.