On 11/17/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> This is from today's Pridelets (which also notes that today is the
> birthday of Rock Hudson, Howard Dean, and RuPaul):
>
> > On this day in 2004, the annual Spurger, Texas "Sadie Hawkins Day" dance
> >is cancelled after the Liberty Legal Institute says the event "causes
> >homosexuality."
> > With the females not only asking out the boys but both genders attending
> >the high school Homecoming week dance in drag, one overly protective
> parent
> >says, "It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl - kids think
> >it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and,
> >like drugs, you do a little here and there and eventually it gets you."
> > What's the more heterosexual alternative? "Camouflage Day," with all the
> >kids able to claim that their mothers wear "army boots." (Gee, that's
> much
> >better.) There is a protest to the military theme with several boys
> opting
> >to don pink gym shorts as part of their outfits.
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