Sunday, June 12, 2005
Festivities
Well, Saturday was a big day -- I attended the Gay Pride parade in Boston and the Flag Day festivities in Quincy. Kind of a yin and yang, sublime and ridiculous kind of thing. But this blog is about paradoxes, contrasts, etc. -- so this is an appropriate posting.
In thinking about it, though, I'm not sure that the two events are incongruous. I'm sure that gay men and women have served this country -- I mean, somebody had to design those dress uniforms. And all those guys in the Continental Congress with the wigs and the pantyhose -- don't they look like they're about to break out in a rousing chorus of "YMCA"? (Well, maybe not John Adams.) Maybe that's why the army didn't desert en masse at Valley Forge -- they were too into the relationships.
I think there's another book for David McCollough to write.
In thinking about it, though, I'm not sure that the two events are incongruous. I'm sure that gay men and women have served this country -- I mean, somebody had to design those dress uniforms. And all those guys in the Continental Congress with the wigs and the pantyhose -- don't they look like they're about to break out in a rousing chorus of "YMCA"? (Well, maybe not John Adams.) Maybe that's why the army didn't desert en masse at Valley Forge -- they were too into the relationships.
I think there's another book for David McCollough to write.
# posted by Bill @ 6:51 PM 
