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Can someone please explain this to me.

http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/whats-on/ ... 87,EV.html

I'm slightly perplexed as to what a) merits such an event b) what the hell it is and c) how the zoo can justify it.

As a bender myself, I feel pretty comfortable going to the zoo on any other day. I'm sure I'm missing something patently obvious here... it all seems too baffling.

Anyone?

well the voucher is for both us gays and those horrible straight folk so maybe they're just dressing up and putting kylie on in the foyer.

i'd prefer a gay animals day, gay penguins would be funny.

But... but... why?!

I gay bar I get, even gay holidays I can cope with.

But having a special day at the zoo for ''those people'' just seems totally bizarre. I appreciate they're trying to make a quick quid with the 'pink pound', but it's voluntary segregation in my eyes.

cat wrote:Can someone please explain this to me.

http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/whats-on/ ... 87,EV.html

I'm slightly perplexed as to what a) merits such an event b) what the hell it is and c) how the zoo can justify it.

As a bender myself, I feel pretty comfortable going to the zoo on any other day. I'm sure I'm missing something patently obvious here... it all seems too baffling.

Anyone?

Don't... I can't cope going to a straight zoo. I can only go to a zoo for poofs.

I'd be pretty disappointed if the monkeys weren't dressed in tutus.

They have these things at American Disney parks, much to the chegrin of the various "family" groups in the bible belt.

But we don't have a Disney so I suppose a zoo is the nearest thing we'll get.

It's an event for screamers to scream, muscle marys to flex and the rest to pull.

I think it's pretty nonsensical myself and creates the opposite of the organisers dreams of "inclusion".

For the same reason I never bother with the Pride marches. It's all a bit, "woo I'm gay and look at my torso".

Of course, now I have a new torso, perhaps I'll be more inclined to join a street party in celebration of it?

I think we should have a metropol pride involving gavin and james martin

Isonstine wrote:

cat wrote:Can someone please explain this to me.

http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/whats-on/ ... 87,EV.html

I'm slightly perplexed as to what a) merits such an event b) what the hell it is and c) how the zoo can justify it.

As a bender myself, I feel pretty comfortable going to the zoo on any other day. I'm sure I'm missing something patently obvious here... it all seems too baffling.

Anyone?

Don't... I can't cope going to a straight zoo. I can only go to a zoo for poofs.

Yes, Dear, but I'm talking about VISITING a gay zoo. The men at the hospital are thinking about REHOUSING you in a gay zoo.

Mr Scott - I hear you. I see these gayers at Disneyland on Fox News all the time. They send someone there with a video camera to film them all having sex in the theme parks on gay days, then say how shocking it is that these people are allowed to exist, and that it shouldn't be done in public. Of course, it wouldn't have been done in public had Fox News not gone and filmed it.

And I would dearly like to have a Metropol247 Torso-off (which, said in a posh accent, sort of sounds like toss-off) competition. I surely would win!

I wouldn't say it's segregation...

Looks to me as if there trying to make the zoo a social place and not a "good family day out for you and your noisy brats".

Also, drag queens and obviously i suppose more mature styles of entertainment arnt exactly the things that youd put out to everybody - do you think a drag queen down the local would exactly be everyones taste.

Being gay isnt anything special - its part of you and businesses are just targeting the culture.

you make it sounds as if it should be "black sundays, for africans and asians alike!"

Gavin Scott wrote: I think it's pretty nonsensical myself and creates the opposite of the organisers dreams of "inclusion".

That's a good point though, how can 'gay' become normal (read: accepted) when it's constantly flagged as something different.

Cheese Head wrote:you make it sounds as if it should be "black sundays, for africans and asians alike!"

Surely that's the point. The zoo wouldn't have a 'special' event along those lines.

Just London Zoo trying to get a bit of publicity and make a bit of money.

The thing I don't get is the Gay Games. http://www.gaygames.com/en/

Just what is it about being gay that means you need a separate athletics event. And if you win do you get a gay test to make sure you are not a straight who has sneaked in.