LANCASTER – More than 2,000 people came through the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds Saturday for the fourth annual Pride Festival, organizers said.
The event, which celebrates the valley’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, was hosted by The OUTreach Center .
“This day has been phenomenal,” said OUTreach Center President Sanie Andres. “It’s an opportunity for us to get together to celebrate our diversity and to be visible in our community and let people know that we’re a part of it.”
Festivities kicked off around 10 a.m. with music, food, and arts and crafts vendors.
Entertainment started around 11:30 a.m. with a performance from Sean Wiggins and Lone Goat, and stage performances continued throughout the day.
Several rainbow-colored flags could be seen, throughout the fairgrounds, in recognition of the Pride Festival’s theme, “Raising the Colors.” The theme came from a contest won by former Senior Airman Charles McCrory.
“For him it was like a merging of the end of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’, raising the rainbow colors and having some pride and visibility in our community,” said OUTreach Board Member Sue Dell.
This year’s Pride Festival was the biggest yet, Adres said.
“Usually we average about 25 to 25 vendors but this year we had nearly 80,” he said. “In terms of attendance, we usually average from 500 to 800 people, but this year we’ve crossed well over 2,000 people.”
“We’ve had so much support from our non-LGBT allies,” said Dell. “The parents, the siblings, the friends, it’s just been positive all day. It’s been a great family day.”
Rene Padilla attended the festival with his wife, Rosa, and their one-year-old son Isca.
“We just decided to come out for the fun of it, for something different,” said Padilla. “This is a really good atmosphere.”
Others came out to support family members.
“We’re here to support my sister-in-law,” said Daniel, who attended the event with his girlfriend and several friends.
Several community service organizations were also represented at the Pride Festival, including The NAACP, Antelope Valley Chapter.
“Whether you’re gay or straight, it really doesn’t matter at this event,” said AV-NAACP President Juan Blanco. “This is an event for family and for celebrating the freedom of being yourself.”
For many more pictures from this event, visit our facebook page.
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As a Christian, Republican, and local Lesbian business owner, I am confused by some of the comments here. Last time I checked, Christ meets us all where we are and leads us forward. Being rude, bashing people and blantantly disrespecting other was not His way. Jesus has always been about inclusion, so what are people trying to exclude? I feel fortunate to have met Christ before I really met “Christians.” At Biola University, I learned that the term “Christian” means “Christ-like.” Try and remember that. Jesus’ mission was always about love and change, not hate and judgement.
roger wrote
“Tea Partiers are generally middle to upper class.”
Did he see the tea partiers dressed in silly costumes at their rallies in 2009 and disrupting town hall meetings? Did he see their signs that old people carried saying “Keep the government away from my Medicare/Social Security” or whatever? Apparently, they’re too stupid to know that those are government services.
There is a woman in the AV who writes frequently to the AV Press who says she’s a tea partier. During the health care debates, she bragged that since she’s younger and fairly healthy, she ‘chooses’ not to buy health insurance. Yeah, and who is going to pick up the tab if she does get sick or injured?
She epitomizes the silliness of the tea partiers. They, and you, talk about personal responsibility and yet criticize the Democrats for passing legislation that would have people like her buy insurance so the costs aren’t passed onto everyone else. Which is it?
BTW. Gays are higher than average income earners. That’s why more and more businesses are catering to them. Cruise ship lines have special ‘gay cruises’ for example. You should try one. So, if that’s your measure of people, you should be ‘proud’ of them. But, you’re all over map.
roger, you keep backing up throwing out silly arguments. Eventually, you’re gonna back off the cliff behind you.
Good one William. It’s easy. If you don’t have insurance, you pay for your own care. If ya can’t afford it, you either get better on your own or you die. So, under your and Obama’s brilliant plan, if I don’t have insurance I can wait until I get sick or injured…then sign up for Obamacare and all will be taken care of. Hey, why don’t we do that with car insurance too….think of all the money we could save in premiums! I’m sure that costs would stay low. Ugggg….morons.
You apparently ‘doan’ know what you’re talking about. ACA is about having people who don’t have insurance now buy it or face a penalty tax to make in order for insurance companies to be able to insure pre-existing conditions such as you describe.
That you don’t know what you’re talking about doesn’t surprise me. As it’s been for many years, people who can’t or won’t pay their hospital bills shift their costs to the insured and/or the hospitals and their staffs. Premiums are higher for the insured because of that and taxpayers pick up other uncompensated care expenses such as at county facilities.
You’ve been listening to right wing media way too much. People who watch Fox News, for example, are more uninformed than people who don’t watch TV news at all. Many on the right still think we found WMDs in Iraq and that President Obama isn’t a citizen and is a Muslim despite evidence to the contrary. And they want the republicans to run the government even though they don’t believe in science or anything else provable but they have ‘faith’ in the unprovable such as religion. If that ain’t stupid and backwards, I don’t know what is.
Ok, you got me. I’m a left winger….just playing devil’s sdvocate.
You got me so worked up that I mis-spelled a word.
I just havin’ fun wit ya. I learned it from watching my cat play with a mouse.
I bet William hates the NRA, probably never owned a gun (let alone fired one), thinks that the military is a waste of money, hands money to losers (or scammers pretending to be poor) at the off-ramp asking for money, hetes the killing of animals for food, etc. etc. What a real man! I bet the gay guys love him!!
NRA? Is that the group of guys with small dicks and big belt buckles?
No. I don’t hate it or them. They’re just grown up little boys.
I love my Harley.
Her name is Sheila.
I park her in my living room and worship her beauty and chrome with my eyes and polish her up.
You mess with My Ride and I will mess with you.
I want to marry my bike.
You doan like that you can kiss my big fat biker ass, you sissys.
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Is it true that bikers ‘like’ that tingly feeling of the motor’s vibration up their asses?
It’s “don’t” Clyde, not “doan”….it’s a contraction of the works “do” and “not”. Did you not pay attention in college?
What’s next? Multiple wife pride? Beastiality pride? When does the insanity stop? The lib homosexuals can’t answer that one.
So, roger, you’ve never had the kind of sex Bill Clinton got in trouble for? No wonder you’re so irritable.
And, if you have, you’re a hypocrite because that’s not right, is it?
Don’t know why yer comparing apples and oranges man, but I do have trouble with the cheater Bill Clinton. Personally I don’t believe in cheating on your wife…no matter how much of a shrew she is.
I’m not talking about the cheating but about the specific sexual activilty that he and Miss Lewinsky engaged in.
If you’ve engaged in similar activity, you must know that that is verboten for some people. How do you feel when they condemn that behavior, if you do engage in it?
If you don’, well too bad for you.
What CONSENTING ADULTS do is their own choice.
An animal and/or inanimate object cannot give their CONSENT. Good lordy..get out of your wet dreams and into logic.
And who cares if three people want to get married. It is IN THE BIBLE! DUH!
Some people still believe the earth is flat and nothing, nothing at all, can change their minds. I keep telling roger, it’s his issue, his problem, but he insists that it’s the fault of others who use the word ‘pride’ to describe their festival.
What can you do with people like that, the flat earthers and roger? I love to play with his mind and watch him wiggle his way around the issue. It’s cruel but what the heck.
Please William…stop the torment…I can’t take it!!!
I knew you couldn’t.
You see. I’m smarter, more clever and better looking than you.
But, I’ll try and be more gentle.
Honey-dear, I said nothing about doing anything to an animal. I’m talking about the DESIRE to do something with an animal. What could be wrong with a pride festival celebrating the lust for animals??? You can’t answer.
There is no “Pride” in having a desire to do anything to anything that is incapable of consent.
Do heterosexuals have “pride” in the desire to rape? I don’t think so. There is nothing to be proud of in that act.
I have no respect for this at all. A picture of a man bent over offering his back end! this was a exhibition of forcing a behavior on society. You do not see Heterosexual people the norm in our population running around and behaving this way generally. Is there a Heterosexual Pride day? The parade is a charade to try and continue the Gay,Bi,Trans on society and try and make it normal. Normal is when you keep your personal Sexuality to yourself and not make a circus out of it.
That’s what I’m sayin! Well said!
has anyone seen the front page article of the valley press dated July 2nd? “city trail ‘hook up’ area for public sex” about barrel springs trail, near pearblossom hwy, being a hotbed for homosexual activity..it’s even listed on websites advertising it..this is disgusting..I don’t call this normal and it’s sickening that these people are so perverted that they can’t contain themselves until they are in a private place.. too bad for the people that just want to take a hike thru the area and have to witness this crap.. maybe some of your gay and lesbian organizations should educate your people..
I saw the article and I think it’s very sad.
Sad that this type of activity takes place because of bigots and homophobes.
Men are pretending to be straight to avoid the stigma unfairly placed on the gay population. They end up having to lead double lives and sneaking around in the bushes rather than being proud of who they are.
When the ones with enough courage come out and freely express themselves to the world, as was the case with the Pride Fest, you blast them as being blasphemous based on YOUR beliefs.
For the record, I am straight and I believe in God. I believe that God would not want me to judge another human being and would want me to treat others as I want to be treated. For this reason, I support love of any kind.
There’s no way you could possibly believe in God. It’s perfectly fine to judge people if they’re up to no good. These people are mentally ill (which they can’t help), but exhibiting the behavior in public is something they are doing by choice. That’s the part that’s wrong. Keep it in the closet like in the 70s and the world will be a much better place. Gays are abnormal and sick.
so, letlow, you know these men? you know they are leading leading a double life? quit making excuses..they at least should have some sense and get their jollies in a private place..maybe they should use their brain and stop playing the poor me routine..would you want your kid to come across this deviant behaviour?
Yeah Missy….I love how straight people say that they are ok with homosexual behavior, but in the same breath they claim that they are straight and would never engage in homosexual behavior….but they can’t say why.
Some people don’t like broccoli but they don’t go on a crusade about it like you do.
The problem is with you, roger. And, you alone. But, I know. It looks like it’s out there at the fairgrounds and you’re just observing it. Yeah, right.
I bet you see a lot of things during the course of a day that don’t rile you up but you’ve got an issue here and you keep beating you head against the wall about it. Well, the wall doesn’t care.
I haven’t seen a broccoli pride festival yet William, but when I do I’ll laugh at it’s absurdity just like I do the gay pride one. You don’t get it…the problem is with the “pride” part of it. There’s nothing to be proud of; straight or gay. You don’t get it man.
Geez, roger. You are aware that they have car shows at the various public places where people show off their custom and restored cars.
They don’t necessarily call them ‘Car Pride Shows’ but do you need that explained to you.
A ‘Gay Pride Festival’ celebrites whatever culture is associated with the gay community, their tastes in music or whatever.
Why are you so dense? Not only dense, but you keep changing the subject from ‘mental illness’ to your objection to the word ‘pride’. So what if they use the word ‘pride’. You’d still be bitching if they called it the ‘Gay Broccoli Festival’.
You’re waging a losing battle in a war you can’t win.
Cars are cool. Homosexuals are gay….and sick.
People should get their jollies in a private place and not subject others (especially kids) to their public sex. That, me and you can agree on. I don’t know if most gay men lead double lives, so perhaps it was wrong of me to imply that. I don’t know or understand how most gay men live because I try to stay out of other people’s business. I don’t fear or hate what I don’t understand, and perhaps you shouldn’t either.
Just because we don’t understand something that doesn’t mean it’s deviant, disgusting or abnormal.
I am sure I engage in behaviors that the gay community doesn’t understand. I wouldn’t want them condemning me for it.
What you believe is sacred to you, and that’s fine. But try not to judge others based on YOUR beliefs. Recognize that they might have other beliefs as well.
And who’s to say which one is right or wrong? Live and let live!!
You said: You do not see Heterosexual people the norm in our population running around and behaving this way generally…
YOU DON’T???
What about Mardi Gras? Superbowl parties? The Halloween block party in Santa Monica? Renaissance Fairs? St. Patrick’s Day?
The fact is, you ALWAYS see this type of behavior at festivals by heterosexuals. Pick any downtown LA bar on a Saturday night and you will find a man drinking liquor shots out of a woman’s breast. Heterosexuals displays of affection are the norm so no one bats an eyelash. Why shouldn’t the gay population be able to express themselves in a similar manner without attacks from you?
If you don’t like it, you can simple choose not to watch. But there is no law against it, just like there is no law against your apparent bigotry.
Exactly. “There are none so blind……..”
It’s amusing and disturbing at the same time that any articles having to do with the gay community elicit such hateful responses from people like Ace, roger, GWBush and others who are unaware that they are revealing their own ‘issues’.
Of course, illegal or harmful activity isn’t being condoned by anyone. But, it’s ironic that those people mentioned above express hate in the name of religion towards those whose ‘crime’ is loving each other. I’m sure their God will make the appropriate adjustments to them in their afterdeath.
Let them be upset. It will eat them alive and displace a great deal of happiness in their lives. Ace is not a happy person, for example. “Happiness is a function of accepting things the way they are”. When I’m upset about something, I’m not also happy at the same time.
Those people mentioned above are only slightly less intolerant than those in Middle Eastern countries that we object to for their human rights abuses.
I knew it. You couldn’t answer my simple question. If there’s nothing wrong with being a homosexual, what’s wrong with being sexually attracted to animals? How ’bout a animal-love pride festival? Would you object to that? You can’t answer with any logical reasoning. It’s either “It’s ok, because they can love whatever they want to love”. Or “It’s wrong, because animal love is a mental disorder”. So, which one is it?
Your premise if faulty to begin with. If it’s OK for you to have sex with a woman you love, why not an animal you love?
See. Your game can be turned around to you.
Like I said, you probably engage in activity that others would find objectionable but you’ll say ‘it’s you right’ or something like that.
So, I’ll turn it back around the right way. My point is that there’s nothing wrong with having sex with the woman you love. But it’s sick to be attracted to animals just as it is to be attracted to members of the same sex. How much more simply can I put it?
Were there scantily dressed people? Showing a lot of skin? Guys in thongs or chaps?
Everyone was naked… underneath their clothes!
Guys don’t wear thongs.. this isn’t Greece!
Guys wear cod pieces with a STREET LEGAL backside covering of at least one inch of material.
Be happy they don’t wear it more often!
It is the damn summer… nobody wears chaps in the desert. Maybe chap style booty shorts… with a cod piece. Again.. street legal and can be worn at any time of the year down any public street.
Were their people wearing leather bondage outfits and people with whips wearing spiked dog collars?
Too hot for bondage “outfits”… and FYI.. people with the whips don’t wear the collars. Duh
Pretty Lesbians in bikinis?
I wouldn’t say they were all pretty.. but I don’t care for blondes personally.
Did the Dikes On Bikes show up?
It is Dykes On Bikes.. geez
Who were the vendors and what were they selling?
Well.. we were selling kool-aid with doses of BE GAY serum in it!
Was there food? Do Gay people eat the same food as straights do?
No food.. just our local dose of “BE GAY” juice. You see, if we don’t take it we start becoming attracted to the opposite sex and wear mismatched clothes! Those who are bisexual are those who have somewhat of a resistance to the serum… we are working on a more powerful mix to help them. Sorry for Denis Rodman.. clinical trial didn’t go so well.
Was there a Drag Queen Beauty Contest? A talent show?
We are ALL FABULOUS! We pity any one trying to JUDGE us!
Was their booze for sale like at that outlaw biker party deal?
We had a bunch of free kool-aid! Who wants alcohol after that??? geeez.. besides, I do believe the bikers took all the booze with them. Which explains why the Dykes on Bikes didn’t show up.
Was there drugs? Rock bands? A Rave..?
Man! I was asking the same question about the drugs! I mean, I was there all day and couldn’t even get a wiff of the funny stuff! Bikers must have taken that too.
We don’t listen to “rock”. Streisand, Judy Garland, Madonna, Lady Gaga and for the lesbians we throw in some Tracy Chapman and Melissa Ethridge.
Oh raving was done…. raving about “Oh no she did not wear THAT to Pride! Oh guuuuurl NO!!!
Were those people in the photos characteristic of most of the attendees?
Sampling of the FABULOUS!!
Did any of our local leaders show up and make a speech?
I am sure they showed up where they were asked to be and made a speech. That is their job…. right?
What was the most fun part of the whole deal?
Throwing glitter bombs on everyone.. filled with BE GAY serum. I have a few saved..
Why wasn’t it held at night? That would have been much more cool and even romantic?
Because we SPARKLE during the daylight hours! Silly, don’t know anything? Besides, it was stilll going when the sun went down! It went till midnight… then the party moved to a local TAX PAYING establishment that was filled to capacity with those seeking a “romantic” moment. hehe
How come no one heard about it? Or was it only advertised for Gay people?
Oh honey.. I do belive that those who are “no one” even heard about it cause damn near everyone showed up!!
Even made the newspaper a few times..
Did any prominent openly Gay people show up? Was there an art exhibit? Body painting?
We only let those people come out at big events. Between events we have to make sure to give them “BE GAY” transfusions.
And believe me… seeing some of the girls there.. they were works of art in motion! They were fierce!!
And since it was all about Gay Pride, how come the nice photos didn’t identify who the people are?
I have them on my Facebook if you would like to get to know them! I mean, which one did you want to know more about? I can dish on most of them…..so, just tell me doll… which one strikes your fancy??
Lot of unanswered questions that a good reporter would have answered for the readers like me who are curious and want to know.
See… curiosity is how we all started honey! You are right on schedule!
How much was admission?
It was alll free.. well, except for the dance and parking after 1pm. But my outfit, hair, nails… oh lordy help me I can’t even say how much money I spent in this town just getting READY for the event! HUNDREDS! I came on fierce and owning it!
Were straight people welcome?
Yes.. how can we feel Pride if we don’t turn a few folks at each event? It is like one of the revival tents that converts sinners to christians! It is the reason we have Pride in the first place! That is in the Gay agenda book on page one! Didn’t you get your copy???
LOLOLOLOL!!! You got me laughing loud and crazy with your post!! Absolutely perfect and priceless response!!
Just look at the morons in the pics. Pretty much answers all the above questions. I’d love to se the gay reaction to a Straight Pride Festival. I wouldn’t be there because there’s no reason to be “proud” of any sexual preference. Stop rubbing your un-natural lifestyle in normal people’s faces.
You’re not normal. Get over yourself.
A guy who is sexually attracted to another guy is abnormal (about 5% of the population)….it’s a mental problem. The world was a better place when they kept it in the closet. Why be proud of it? You can’t answer that.
Are you left-handed? Left-handed people are not ‘normal’ statistically. Would you have them stay in a ‘left-handed closet’?
I promise you that there are things that you are or do that are not ‘normal’ statistically. Now, what do we do with you?
They’re abnormal as well…but not mentally ill. And they don’t force it on right-handers “pride” festivals. Lefties are abnormal. Gays are sick. Both should go about their business without forcing everybody to accept that they are somehow normal.
So, Village Idiot, are you a mental health professional or do you just talk out of your rear?
Or, can you tell the difference?
I’m no shrink, but I can tell the difference between a beautiful woman and a hairy guy!!
You wrote>
“I’m no shrink, but I can tell the difference between a beautiful woman and a hairy guy!!”
So, which one did you have sex with?
Let me guess. A beautiful woman wouldn’t look twice at you, so it must be the other.
Why does it matter to you which one’s the one for me??? Sounds like you may be suffering from a touch of homophobia…in my professional opinion. You biggot!
No one is being ‘forced’ to go to the festival.
You aren’t even being forced to read the article or comment on it, are you?
But, something inside you is really ‘mentally ill’ that you rant about it constantly.
Keep it up. It will eat you alive.
It’s like a traffic accident William. It’s likely shocking and gross, but it’s human nature to check it out. I also like to stay up on current events….disgusting or not.
GOOD ONE LMAO !!!!!!!!!
william i was not laughing @ your comment,i was laughing @ rogers.i just wanted to make that clear after you tried to make me throw up yesterday! your new name is, (LiL’nasty william)
You know G.W. Bush was known as the ‘Village Idiot’ of Crawford, Texas.
So, from now on, you are ‘The Village Idiot’.
And it fits you perfectly.
BTW, Village Idiot, it’s the right wing bible-thumpers who are always saying they don’t like the “gay agenda shoved down their throats”.
Apparently, they and you prefer other things shoved down your throats instead.
PS- Unfortunately for you “William”, the idiot in charge is going to lose the election to a good conservative like Bush was. The free ride is over for you….better get a real job with healthcare coverage, because Osama Bin Bama Care will be gone too!! Thank God!!
I came across this today regarding Mitt Romney’s press conference on the ACA issue.
“1. Agrees with Roberts the penalty is a tax making it constitutional
2. Agrees with Dissent declares the penalty is not a tax and unconstitutional.
He said that in the same press conference and you aren’t smart enough to know an idiot candidate from a rock.
It’s a wonder that Romney had any children as he can’t figure out which way is up or down. It musta been an accident that he put it in the right place.
BTW I do have good health care coverage even though I’m retired and I had it before. At my previous job, I had a menu of benefit options and selected the most advantageous if I got sick or disabled and did without some options that would have been nice at the time. In other words, I was prudent and thought long term. I even took out private disability insurance in case I broke a leg at Wrightwood and was laid up for 6 months. It was $150/month.
The ACA is to get ‘freeloaders’ like the tea partiers to pay up so we don’t have to pay their health care expenses while they bitch about the government.
Tea Partiers are generally middle to upper class. How’s that freeloading???? I hate to admit it, but you lived your life right. Plan for the future, invest in healthcare insurance, private disability insurance, etc. That’s what EVERYBODY can do. If you screw up in life, why make others pay for it???? I believe in personal responsibility…not a Robin Hood scenario like you do.
Thanks for the support G.W.!
I dunno, chickie in the top photo is NOT an argument for gays (lesbians, specifically, if she is indeed) having fashion sense and wearing matching clothes.
What a bunch of freaks. This valley is going down the tubes like the rest of the country.
I was shocked to hear there was anything gay in the A.V. You have to remember this is the Antelope Valley. For those of you that did not attend the A.V. Pride Fair it was exactly what I thought it would be. Very low key, with plenty of vendors, food & drink vendors and some entertainment and lots of friends and families enjoy the day without having to worry about any violence. It was a place for everyone to enjoy the freedom to be themselves and still be safe. It was nothing like , Hollywood, S.F., N.Y. and other Pride Fairs. I had not expectation of what it would be and I enjoyed it for what it was with friends and family. Out of the fifteen of us that went I was the only gay one. Everyone else was there to support the gay community and me. We all decided to do it again next year as well. Hopefully it will be bigger and better. :-)
A news article on this website profiled a 10 year old student who was being bullied at school. The story was titled: Bullying still a major problem in Lancaster schools…
Ace Carter wrote the following comment underneath the article on 4/30/12 at 3:23 p.m.:
“…every time I hear or read about The Bullying Problem it is about an OPENLY “Gay” kid apparently encouraged by it’s dim witted parents and by a school system which encourages FAY and openly Gay behavior.”
Ace Carter now calls me a liar for pointing this out. Anyone who wants to read the article and Mr. Carter’s comments under said article can view it here: http://www.theavtimes.com/2012/04/30/bullying-still-a-major-problem-in-lancaster-schools-parents-say/
Ace Carter, why are you so ashamed of your remarks now? You weren’t ashamed of them when you made them. You are a gay bashing internet troll and if you keep it up, I will go through all your old gay bashing comments and place them here for all to see.
Is the reason you hide your real name here, “S..”?
That you are PERHAPS featured on The Megan’s Law web site?
How about you, “William..”
And thanks for proving how awful I really am, “S..” Now everyone knows that I am not nice…
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Seems to me that Gay Pride events, with so many kids attending that are going through the typical gender confusion of many teens, would be really swell places for Chicken Hawks to seek out and seduce, new, young victims…
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Ace complaining that someone else hides behind an anonymous name here?? Pot-kettle-black Polyanna, er, I mean Ace.
“Typical gender confusion”!!???! Since when Ace? Few teenagers are gender confused. Most folks have figured out which sex attracts them before their teenage years. But maybe not you. Why is that Ace?
Looks like more personal attacks by those who are PRO-Gay in every way.
I was further wondering if those readers here that don’t already have their minds made up and aren’t heavilly invested in promoting open Homosexuality think that allowing and encouraging really young kids to be face painted and phony tattooed, along with seeing the openly Gay young people there having fun was RECRUITING?
In the photos all of the attendees appear to be teenagers. I asked if this was characteristic of the attendees and was ignored.
ONCE AGAIN, I am attacked without any thoughtful or meaninful rebuttal by the Gay loving people here. And again accused of being Gay as IF it were wrong? Huh..?
AND lied about when “S..” said I called the poor young person bullied Gay. YOU are a liar “S..” and you know it. Your agenda here is wicked and you are an evil person.
Promoting a Gay lifestyle as fun and carefree is another big fat LIE.
Wickedness never was happiness.
My questions stand and were mostly unanswered.
Dikes On Bikes is a real group and attends all the many Gay events in San Francisco. That was not an insult or a joke, “S..”.
That THIS event did not mirror the TOTALLY out of control Gay events in San Franciso or in West Hollywood is good news.
“S..” and “William..” still HIDE who they are. They both IGNORE reality and attack me for making their pretend worlds UNCOMFORTABLE…
Tough..!
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I just followed up on an article on Wikipedia re: ‘latent homosexuality’ just to be sure. This is just a small portion of the entire article but it illustrates what you exhibit Ace, over and over again. Check it out yourself.
“The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli.
A possible explanation is found in various psychoanalytic theories, which have generally explained homophobia as a threat to an individual’s own homosexual impulses causing repression, denial, or reaction formation (or all three; West, 1977). Generally, these varied explanations conceive of homophobia as one type of latent homosexuality where persons either are unaware of or deny their homosexual urges.[1]”
You’ve heard the saying that goes something like “Ace doth protest too much”. Notice the word ‘denial’ in the second paragraph.
It must be horrible to live with yearnings and urges and suppressing and repressing them at the same time, while denying they exist in yourself. If they’re in your sub-conscious, that must be worse yet, cause you simply can’t or won’t acknowledge them because they’re in your sub-conscious. Yeow! What a predicament you’re in. But, your regular comments on the subject of homosexuality are obvious to everyone else but it’s your blind spot, like the back of your head. Others can see it but you can’t. It’s still there however.
Don’t worry. You’re not alone. G.W. Bush, here, seems affected the same way as are others who come here and reveal their ‘issues’. G.W. uses God and the Bible to cover his own homophobia. It’s like a ‘free pass’ so others won’t question his sexuality. He uses the Bible as his excuse.
LMAO,see one thing that i know,and that is every one had the thought that cross their mind !!I know that because if it has never cross your mind, how do you know that you don’t want too part take in it? now when it cross your mind from subconscious to your conscious,how you act apond it is the key!! see i don’t have to hide behide a book because i know right from wrong!!see i know that it does not add up with the laws of nature,it is mathmaticaly incorrect!!!
Your writing is nearly incoherent. But, keep trying. I’m sure there’s a thought in there somewhere.
i’m sorry that you didn’t understand what i said, but you keep trying and you’ll get it ,trust me !!
Nope. You can’t writeworthbeans. See how that is.
maybe your I.Q is off some where.I mean, i know that you don’t think clearly, because you think being gay is right LOL !!
You don’t think PERIOD. You swallow someone else’s thoughts hook, line and sinker and spew them out here so everyone can see how brainwashed you are.
You can be easily replaced by another bible-thumper without missing a beat.
i din’t get all of that swallow,spew stuff!that really sounds crazy/nasty, and i am about to throw up in my mouth right now!!and as far as the BIBLE,i read it and every other rightous book! so you can’t just put me in that little box! give that title to some one else especially the thumper part!!!
typo,i ment i didn’t
You put yourself in a little box and don’t seem to realize it. But, everyone else can see that it’s so.
Thump away.
Did I put my self in that little box because I know right from wrong?Well if so, let me stay in that box!!
This fear of people celebrating something like their sex lives isn’t necessarily latent homosexuality. Chances are it’s just good old religious sexual repression. An unfortunate side product is obsession with other people’s “sins”. Allows them an outlet for their own desires, while looking down on those they obsess over. “plank in the eye” and all.
And we are taken the word GOD out of our schools,and we are trying to take the word GOD off of the dollar bills,but we are pushing for this!!in every religous book that has GOD as being a rightous vessel,speaks against it! HE has destroyed cities behind things like this !!now in our schools they don’t just teach about kings and queens,they teach about kings and kings!!don’t get me wrong, i do beleave in teaching the kids about it,but there is a time and a place for everything!!!!people we was created man and women, because two of the same sex can’t reproduce,or procreate.i remember when there was a time that if it was done, it was done behind the scene,not glorified like as today !!! see a person don’t have to tell you that you are doing wrong,you have that inner person that tells you,and thats why you hide when you do it !! and now that you have fought, and fought, and now you have people to help you glorify in your wrong doings,still does not make it RIGHT!!! yeah it is a new day and time, but it still does not make it RIGHT!! this is not a new trend,because there is nothing new under the sun,it is just history repeating it self.aand just like he destroyed it then,he is going to destroy it again!!! Have we not learned from history,that is one of the points of history,and that is so that we dont make the same mistakes twice!!! i understand not every body beleave in GOD,and thats not the point. just look at it from the naked eye MAN+MAN=0….WOMAN+WOMAN=0….MAN+WOMAN=1 which is a BABY..I know that every body is going to jump down my throat for this,but i can’t give up the right for the wrong !!!!!!!!
Here’s Another Question About Gay Pride Day At The AV Fairgrounds…
Besides asking if the free admission and the apparently freely provided Antelope Valley Fair Grounds were offered and provided to keep a Gay Pride Parade from marring Rex’s monument to HIMSELF… THE BLVD?
Do all fair goers have THEIR bags and persons SEARCHED for drugs like the Gay attendees there reportedly were?
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Were the outlaw bikers, attending Rex’s special pal, Ron Emard’s Thunder On The Lots, unregistered and unregulated charity drunken biker party at the same fairgrounds, (Not wearing their gang colors..) , SEARCHED? How about the saddle bags of their Harleys?
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The reporter did a fine job in covering the story. I got a sense of what the event was about from reading it. And it was delightful to view the pictures on facebook. I really wish I was there.
Ace Carter does not seek additional information on this event that the reporter did not cover. His “questions” are a desperate attempt to demean and mock the event, nothing more nothing less. I am surprised anyone had the patience to answer them. But instead of being grateful for someone taking the time to answer his ridiculously mocking questions (i.e. did the dikes on bikes show up?), he turns around and asks more mocking and insulting questions.
Dear Organizers of this wonderful event,
If you are reading this, please ignore Ace Carter. He has been a gay basher on this site for as long as I can remember. He has accused the creators of this site of promoting “militant homosexuality” just for covering your stories. He accused a 10 year old kid profiled in a story of being gay simply because the kid was being bullied. He then blamed the kid’s parents and the school for promoting “militant homosexuality.”
There are many other examples that prove Ace Carter is definitely not seeking information about this event. Please do not waste your time dwelling on Mr. Carter – a mocking, gay bashing internet troll.
Once again, congratulations on a hugely successful event!!!
yes, the fair goers have their bags and such searched..
Here are some more answers for you ace.
The use of the fair grounds was paid for
and they checked bags for weapons.
once again your arguments are invalid.
So here are the PRETEND defenders of Gay people accusing me of being Gay as IF there is something to be mocked and that somehow I should not ask questions IF they call me Gay?
Many of my questions were answered.
REAL newspapers and news persons always ask and answer; Who, What, When,Why and Where.
This wasn’t done in this case.
AGAIN… I am not opposed to Gay people. I have worked for Gay attorneys with Gay clients. I have sat with them in their offices and homes and listened to them. Gay people are PEOPLE. Different? Yes, in some ways.
Should people mock and hate them for being Gay or having gender difficulties? NO.
BUT… I do dislike IN YOUR FACE anything like for instance MANY Vegetarians who want to forcefully convert others. I dislike public sex and degradation as well as promiscuous immorality.
I have NEVER been Gay nor had sex with another man. And I think those that attack me by calling me curious are foul liars and HYPOCRITES as well as brainless and lame.
“S” is all about approval of the event. Did he go and have fun? Nope.
William is so pro Gay, while using Gayness SLURS to mock others that do not march to the same robotic, brain washed drummer he does.
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Wanna bet these folks were GIVEN the Fairgrounds FOR FREE to keep them from marching on the HOLY… and sacred, THE BLVD..?
THAT… The Rex could not abide.
WHO were the LOCAL elected officials that went and spoke? The answer..? NONE of them…
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I’m mocking your ‘flamboyant’ comments here on the the AV Times nearly every day. And you’re extraordinary hypocrisy.
You crticize ‘in your face’ gays and vegetarians and others but you are here nearly everyday with you lengthy ‘in your face’ diatribes yourself.
The festival didn’t happen in front of your house. It was scheduled at a public facility where many other ‘in your face’ events are held such as the fair.
But, it’s fun to point out your hypocrisy and clownish behavior for all to read.
Keep it up. The more you rant, the more you reveal yourself. So, what if you’ve suppressed you gay yearnings even if you haven’t had sex with another man. Good for you. It’s called ‘latent homosexuality’ and it typically manifests itself with overt hostility to gays.
Look at how many politicians and preachers have recently ‘come out’ or been ‘outed’ involuntarily who have spoken out vehemently against gays or supported anti-gay legislation. Most self-assured hetersexual men have no problem with gays. It’s those preachers and politicans who rant about them just like you that have the issues, not the gays.
If you ranted about the Joshua trees here in the AV every other day, it would be just as ridiculous. The trees wouldn’t have any issues, just you.
Comprende?
Once again, the outreach center PAID for the use of the fair grounds. You are so pathetic.
Yeah, those Mormon missionary kids do get in your face, militantly trying to convert one to their beliefs. Always riding around, almost in military uniform, since it all looks like their wardrobe came from the J.C. Penny’s catalog. Knocking on doors, wanting to come into people’s living rooms. But I always try to treat them as good kids. Offer them water before I send them on their way. They’ve been taught that indoctrinating their neighborhood, school, community, city, country, world by their adults is good. It’s not that Ace is against Kool-Aid. Only other people’s choice of drinks.
Kinda like Rex’s wellness homes. All indoctrination centers for specific Christian churches, ran on tax payer funds. So complain when “The Gays” get to run a wellness home Ace. Can ya imagine the uproar over a Muslim wellness home? Lordy, lordy, lordy. There would be some come to Jesus meetings then, wouldn’t there be?
Yes, there is all kinds of indoctrination going on in this town. Mormons being not the lest of the churches involved.
It looks like a good time was had by all. It seems like just yesterday I was reading about them yanking down a rainbow flag from the Fairgrounds. Now, less than a year later, they are having an entire pride festival there. I’m so happy to be a part of this new Antelope Valley that seems to embrace people from all walks of life. It is a good day for tolerance in the AV. Bravo to the organizers of this event!!! Score one for diversity!
Diversity is perversity man!!
So, help me understand this Gay Pride affair since I have never been to one but I have seen photos of what goes on up in San Francisco when they have a parade of Gay people.
Were there scantily dressed people? Showing a lot of skin? Guys in thongs or chaps?
Were their people wearing leather bondage outfits and people with whips wearing spiked dog collars?
Pretty Lesbians in bikinis?
Did the Dikes On Bikes show up?
Who were the vendors and what were they selling?
Was there food? Do Gay people eat the same food as straights do?
Was there a Drag Queen Beauty Contest? A talent show?
Was their booze for sale like at that outlaw biker party deal?
Was there drugs? Rock bands? A Rave..?
Were those people in the photos characteristic of most of the attendees?
Did any of our local leaders show up and make a speech?
What was the most fun part of the whole deal?
Why wasn’t it held at night? That would have been much more cool and even romantic?
How come no one heard about it? Or was it only advertised for Gay people?
Did any prominent openly Gay people show up? Was there an art exhibit? Body painting?
And since it was all about Gay Pride, how come the nice photos didn’t identify who the people are?
Lot of unanswered questions that a good reporter would have answered for the readers like me who are curious and want to know.
How much was admission?
Were straight people welcome?
What went on there? Pretty lame reporting. Mr. Dilworth…
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And where’s the photos and reports on that June-Teen-Th Party at Jackie Robinson Park ?
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You seem to be extremely bi-curious Mr. Carter. Perhaps you should contact the good folks at the Outreach Center and they can help you with your, ahem… urges.
You’re drooling on your keyboard, Ace. You’re drooling again.
Hello there Ace,
I’m gonna try and answer some of your questions;
AV Pride had hundreds of straight people come support. Everyone was welcome.
Comedian Gloria Bigolo from LOGO TV did a stand up routine. & Sean Wiggins from American Idol performed
Unlike other prides almost everyone was fully clothed.
The same food sold at AV Fair was sold at pride and local restaurants also.
Some of the vendors included Chase, Wells Fargo, about 4-5 local churches, clothing booths, The American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, and many many local businesses and big corps.
There were officials from both Palmdale and Lancaster Present and who presented the outreach center awards.
Pride was advertised through out the valley for everyone including on KGMX – 106.3FM many times the entire week before and on the AV Press.
Admission was free.
There was face painting for children and henna tattoos.
The day was filled with performances and good times.
There was absolutely no drugs, security was on staff as well as sheriffs, and bags were checked.
Pride was held all day from 9am to midnight
Alcohol was sold and was monitored.
AV Pride was a great time with thousands of wonderful of people and families.
GREAT JOB ON REPORTING MR. DILWORTH! :)
Ace, if you think its so lame, you should stop reading, just a suggestion.
Yes there was food. And No, Gay people do not eat the same food as straights. they only eat phallic shaped food, and only organic. The women eat food that is sloppy, wet, and smells of fish..
Uh, You are crazy man. Funny questions tho
It was reported that Ace was at the festival dressed as Pretty Pollyanna escorted by 2 bodybuilders.
Now, try to get that image out of your head.
Was that a photo of our Wee-Willy-Winky (William..) looking so HOT in that yellow blouse?
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That was a typical lame response from you and everyone knows it.
With all of the violent crime committed by African Americans in this town you’d think the NAACP would have its hands full with that issue alone and not have to butt its nose into a Gay Pride event?????
I was a bit surprised how many African American gays and non gays were at the fair. Easily 25% were.
Do you have to prove you are Gay to get in?
How does one do that..?
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No you don’t have to prove your gay. Everyone was welcome to come, gay, straight, bi, curious, TS, TV, old, young, handicap, lovers and even the haters. The Pride festival does not discriminate.