How did you know all my friends call me JP?

Look, Will, I meant it when I said that nothing you or the others said offended me in any way. If anything, I was impressed by your directness and your acute adjectives. My favorite one was 'buffoon'!

You probably have a thousand things to do right now, so I won't keep you except to thank you for accepting my apology so quickly and so graciously, in the best of Englsh traditions.

On the off chance that you want to bring this rant up again for any reason (including therapeutic!), don't be shy.

You all have my full support for the Moscow March, and just tell me to f*ck off the next time I try to give you a lesson in morality, OK.

Regards,

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Of all the guys on this rant, you're the one I like the most, and I'm being serious for a change.

I am not a Trans, but I have friends, good friends, who are.

It is not easy to merit the friendship of a drag queen, trust me. They pick you, not the other way round.

You are right in a way that drag queens are supposed to be funny. However, as a rule, comedy is part of their stage carreers or their public masks. They also know how to have fun at private parties. In reality, ordinary life is more of a challenge for them than we can imagine.

As for the Stonewall Riots, I don't want to sound like a snot, and feel free to correct me, but the riots began on an evening in June '69, the day after the death of Judy Garland, in NYC in the front of the Stonewall Club on Christopher Street, a drag queen club with a hefty bouncer at the door.

When the NYC police arrived to raid the place on the pretext that liquor was being served there to homosexuals, something that was illegal in the States at the time, the cops proceeded to check ID's and to push everyone out into the waiting paddy wagons.

When one of the drag queens, wearing four inch heels, was pushed outside and against a wall, she resisted, something drag queens had never done before for fear of being beaten to death.

It happened that this Trans was the partner of the club's owner, who had loved her deeply and who had blown his brains out in front of her the previous evening because she hesitated to have sex-change surgery so that they could be legally married.

She was like a mourning widow when she was pushed against a brick wall by a policeman. When she glared at him, he teasingly said: "Why are you looking at me? I'll bet you're trying to decide whether to slap me or kiss me."

The street was full of cops pushing the most beautiful NYC drag queens around. She took a deep breath, hauled off and punched him right in the face.

She was pushed faced down on the pavement and beaten with two- feet wooden clubs by three NYC cops. The other Trans followed her example; the Stonewall Riots had begun, and so had the Gay Liberation Movement in the USA.

There was only one gay guy there, the boyfriend of one of the girls, and he is shown waving his arms in the footage I have of the event.

That is why there are always a few 'funny' drag queens leading the Gay Pride Parades in the States.

As for me, well, there are times to be ridiculous, and there are times to apologize for rubefacient language.

I am sorry I reacted the way I did and goaded you on. Pent-up rage, I suppose, because of humiliating experiences with Gay Pride Parades in this neck of the woods.

But there's no excuse for bad manners, and I will not torment you well-meaning guys in the future.

Best wishes to you in Moscow, Peter Tatchell and the rest of you courageous guys.

Before closing, let me say how much I appreciate straight talk. That is why I was not in the least hurt by your clever comments.

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"…and a handsome Guard standing stiff…."

Do YOU mind…??!!
Not while I'm havin' me sossidgis, please…!
More 'n flesh 'n blud can stand!!

Still laughin'..!
K

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Poor Jean-Paul is probably totally to perceive the shame in the following piece of Tory dialogue. He's been stuck in Canada. He's EONS behind.

"Air, hellair, Eugenie dahling!
Hairve you seen?
That Rupert's brought his 'friend'!
- they'll beah snorting coke in the lavvies again, I bet.
I mean, daddair's brother was a hoemoesecksual, you know,
yes, quite a few people were onto it
- but this is a CHARCH wedding after all.
I don't maind as long they keep it praevit.
The Queen Mum was surrounded by 'em, of course
- it's all right if they're prepared to keep it QUIET.
But Rupert was parading this "boyfie" of his at Airscit last week,
and Charlotte said she saw them drooling round the rowers at Henlair!
It's sooooo embarrassing.
It's just grubbair.
And the boy's just nort one of us,
comes from some place up north, for heaven's sake!
Aarftair all these endless debates in parliarmint
they've gort their way, they've won all these rights,
so why can't they now just be setisfied
and get orn with it,
do whatever they want to do in their clubs and things,
AND KEEP A LAIR PROFILE!
Charlotte sez Rupert told his father he wants a wedding in Canterbree Catheedral, for God's sake!
Sed he warnts a marriage or nothing at all!
It's just maird, Eugenie.
I mean, it's just not playing cricket, is it!
Hoemoesecksuals are simply nevair satisfied.
Personally, I rue the day we made them legal.
Now we're bundled with buggers.
Cameron's frightened he won't get in unless he's seen cavorting with them!"

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Let me repeat what you have said:

"Any Gay Brits should take our flag with them and the European one too! If they are assaulted they should get immediate support from our Consulate in Moscow!

"It would also be a good thing if European leaders came out and said homophobic attacks should not be tolerated at the Eurovision; come on Angela and Gordon and the rest of you!"

By the way (all sane fighters-for-gay-equality reading this), I got an email this morning from the guy who is organizing the Moscow march, Nikolai Alekseev, and he says that word in Moscow is that on Friday the Russian authorities intend to swoop on the homes of the gay and lesbians who are organizing the march to arrest them and keep them under arrest until the weekend is over.

Isn't it outrageous that they should be living in fear like this. Terrified now that sometime on Friday agents will swoop on them and haul them off into incarceration for the weekend. Just imagine if we heard that that was to be the case here in London, or Cardiff, or Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, or Brighton for gay pride marches and events! Would we sit back and take it?

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JOHN PAUL.
"……………..Oh, and you guys are not going anywhere in GB until you separate Church and State…….."
Comment by Jean-Paul — May 13, 2009 @ 9:02

MY GOVERNMENT IS WORKING ON IT.

ELIZABETH II
REGINA
BACKINGHUM PARLARSE.
LANDAN W.1

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I sincerely hope you're not a drag queen… drag queens are normally funny. And wouldn't have the backbone or courage to be part of the Stonewall Riots, so don't quote that to me, you gormless little twit.

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My but you guys are up early this morning.

Do you mean it's 'nyet' for the opera? What a relief…what do comic villains wear?

Well, as long as your going, and as long as you will be thinking of me, Will, could you do me an itsy bitsy little favour just to show the world how cibilized gay guys can be, and make sure the camera picks it up?

The trick is, you take a bottle of 7-up and you make like you're jerking it off, and then you spray the standers-by with it, get it?

It's like you're telling the whole world that you are cuming all over them, and you expect them to be amused. That is sure to give all the rest of us ordinary queers a better public image.

Of course, you also have to be wearing next to nothing and show a bit of your arse, after all, you're in public!

Do you remember when the American Homophile Society marched on city hall in Philidelphia in 1969? Were you born yet?

That was the same day as the Stonewall Riots, I believe, when the New York Drag Queens triggered the Gay Liberation Movement in the States.

Well, the guys from the Homophile Society had everything organized, and they all wore ordinary work clothes, and walked around peacefully and put their point across with banners while the cops stood idly by looking rather bored on the live footage I have of it.

Now there's a demonstration for me except I would put a few Drag Queens at the head of the parade, because they're the ones with the real guts, and the real hearts, and the real identities.

A bunch of gay guys who talk big but cave in at the sight of someone coming at them with a club could not have started the Stonewall Riots.

And you guys didn't even post a comment about the way IDAHO lost its connection to PinkNews last week.

You didn't post a comment on the Amnesty International story that reported the killing of gays in Iraq either, but that's OK because we are all under construction, right?

How do you feel about drag queens, Will?

Did you cry when IDAHO lost its connection to PinkNews the other day? Well regardless of how much you disdain them in real life, it does look good to have the letter 'T' in LGBT; kinds of rounds it off, doesn't it?

Now you all have a good trip and remember how much money Eurovision will be losing if there is any violence in Moscow next Saturday. Behave yourselves now, because the police are not likely to give you a helping hand.

"Into the valley of death they rode…"

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"…Well, they all got the hint when the dogs started barking for their supper…"

JP, Luvvie..!
They didn't need no hint..
They had been waitin' to get a word in edgewise/make a bolt for it, for HOURSSSSSSSS..!!!

And them dogs!!
Poor babies!
They weren't barking for their supper…
They were barking for YOOO to SHUT THE FUDGE UPPP!!

20 minutes in labour, your neice, how wonderful!
She got off much more lightly than your guests and the poor doggies..

Congratters to the lady.
That's as far as I got with #20 then be-clagging crudge set in when I saw the timbre of the rest of it.

See shells..? Guess 'eggs'!

K
bye.
xxx

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Please, don't flatter yourself. You are not comical and about as villainous as a packet of Wurthers Originals. You're just a petty coward and a bitchy fool. That's all. Quite simple really.

When we all march in Gay Pride this year, we'll be doing it for you in your closet… but when you see the march on TV, you must pretend you don't like those "in-your-face-queers" or else your mother know your a big queer.

And thankfully Peter Tatchell DOESN'T agree with your stance, and is going to Moscow despite your cowardly protests to cancel Gay Pride, Jean Paul….. and may there be more like him and less like you in the future, and maybe we'll get somewhere.

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All the more reason you should shut up the hell up when your attempts at 'insulting' those more intelligent consists of the SAME insult thrown back at them. Maybe there's not that much light in the closet you live in, you know, to have a varied lexicon? Or maybe your just a thick piece of shit. Who knows. Who cares. We KNOW you a moron, so no need to KEEP on demonstrating it there JP.

Will mate, Tony & Eddy, ignore this ignorant drama queen… sounds like he ingested too much glitter.

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Keith
SALFORD

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