A Reminder Of What San Francisco Is All About

Warning: Zombietime has photographed the San Francisco part of World Naked Bike Ride 2007. It was not misadvertised, this is not a work-safe link to click to--lots of completely naked people walking around and bicycling through San Francisco. As Zombietime points out, a lot of this just an excuse for exhibitionism by the crowd that thinks bicycling is a political strategy against George Bush.

Oh, and the Trans March held on June 22, 2007 in San Francisco, also photographed by Zombietime. This isn't quite as shocking, but still not really work-safe. If you don't know what a trans march is? Well, from their website:

We are calling for this march to demonstrate that we are a significant and growing portion of the lgbtiq community; to increase our visibility and presence in the tgiqlb community and the overall community at large; to encourage more trans and gender-variant people to come out; to build connections among ftm, mtf, bayot, crossdressers, sadhin, hijra, transvestites, bantut, drag queens, drag kings, mahu, transsexuals, bakla, travesti, genderqueers, kathoey, two spirit, intersex and those with other labels for themselves and no labels for themselves, those who see gender as having more than two options, and those who live between the existing options; to support one another as a community, through all of our struggles; to speak out against violence, hate, transphobia, and the oppression of any and all of us under the existing social structure; and to be fabulous and powerful in the company of others that are fabulous and powerful.

If most of this looks like gobbledygook or typographical errors, that's because you don't keep up on the rapidly enlarging community of the hopelessly weird. There used to be "lgb" which means "lesbian, gay, and bisexual." Then it morphed into "lgbt" which included transgendered sorts.

Somewhere the "q" got added in for those people who are proud and loud about being "queer." Queer? Isn't that an insult? Oh no. This is a crowd that thinks that most homosexuals are too heteronormative in their behavior--meaning that many homosexual men act like men, and many homosexual women act like women. The self-defined queers revel in acting like the nasty stereotypes of homosexuals. For men, simpering, mincing, effeminate, and histronic--really, acting like an exaggeration of a 13 year old girl that hasn't grown up. For women, the bull dyke stereotype of a blue collar beer belching man.

What about the "i" in "lbtiq" above? Heck if I know. Interspecies, perhaps?

If homosexuals were really just like straight people, "except for who they love," they wouldn't be forming common cause with this bunch of kooks, sickos, and exhibitionists. The more I lived in the Bay Area, the more I saw of this emerging sickness, and the more persuaded I was to take a serious look at the available research about homosexuality--and the more obvious it was that this is not an alternative lifestyle.