Doctor Frannnk will... Create, a creature...
As you may guess, I'm a big fan of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (another positive influence of that girlfriend I mentioned). Largely because it's a movie where I can sit there in the theater, hitting on aforementioned girlfriend and shouting snarky comments at the screen while occasionally being pleasantly accosted by the actors. I could live like this, in that theater in Chelsea where we're encouraged to celebrate the profane and delight in our love of the vulgar (because lets face it, people will always love bad things).
Really, many problems with the world today could be solved by making the audience participation version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show more accessible to more people. The movie has the intellectual requirement of your average episode of Winnie the Pooh, frontal nudity and some of the best rock music of its age. These are connotations that the alternative lifestyle community wouldn't suffer for the having of. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and transsexual/gay lifestyles. Works for me.
Really, alternative lifestyles need to work on their pitch to America at large in general. What media representation do they have? Victims in various news specials and Will and Grace. Not exactly what will endear you to the nation. Bad news sells, but it depresses the buyers, and does anyone actually like Will and Grace? You already get accused of pushing an agenda, at least do so effectively.
You've made some good points to the nation at large, don't get me wrong. There's no reason you shouldn't be allowed to marry; you're hard-working, law abiding Americans and you deserve it. This is also your biggest problem. People don't like hearing about what other people deserve, or like being told that they're being unfair. It's like arguing with your parents when you're a teenager. No matter how right you are or wrong they are, the more right you make yourself out to be the more upset they get. You get better results when you point out how you getting what you want also gets them what they want. And there's plenty! Additional loving families to adopt orphaned children, more marriages being conducted and thus keeping the wedding cake business alive and thriving, another group comfortable with their stereotype and thus able to entertain the public with them better than this Will and Grace nonsense. You have plenty to offer America, we all know, but the opposition wont unless you get out there on the airwaves and offer it!
Remember folks; sex, drugs, rock and roll...
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