Thursday, February 16, 2006

Love = Love

Anyone who's on the Princeton campus will no doubt know about the Love = Love posters put up by the LGBT. These posters are meant to express that Love is still Love no matter what your gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. Now those of you who know me well enough to know my political leanings, I'm staunchly against my involvement in this matter. Allow it, ban it, I really don't care enough to get envolved. Some may call this selfish, but I prefer to call it self-preservation. This issue is one that is one that is hotly debated and I have friends on both sides, so for me to pick one of them is to ostracize some part of my friends, which I don't really care enough about the issue to do.

Anyway, to the purpose of this post. Last year I was forced to take some involvement in this issue. These Love = Love posters forced my hand. The reason? I felt that the posters were not depicting Love, but Lust, and I felt LGBT was hurting their own cause more then helping it. The whole campaign wreaked of stupid public relations, which truly upsets me. Some of the posters were tasteful, but many of them depicted erotic scenes that looked like they were pulled from skinemax or that, as close to soft core porn as MTV has ever gotten, show Undressed that aired in the late '90's (When's that going to come out on DVD?). I feel like it grossed many people out (Nobody wants to see that sort of thing on the way to Psych lecture at 9 A.M). Mind you, I'm speaking of not just the homosexual posters, but the ones depicting heterosexual lust as well. I felt it was just plain inappropriate and furthermore I don't think it was a good idea to vindicate the belief of the Christian right that gays and lesbians are nothing but degenerate sex-crazed perverts.

I saw the posters this year and it appears that someone has finally talked sense into the people who are in charge of such campaigns over at Princeton's LGBT. They were much more tatefully done, depicting merely the head (rather than the naked torsos) of two people about to kiss. They again featured both homosexual and heterosexual pairs, but this time the interactions between the two individuals was far less erotic and far more a demonstration of love.

Kudos to the Princeton LGBT. You have undone the damage that your posters did to me last year.

I don’t know where the sunbeams end and the starlights begin
It’s all a mystery
And I don’t know how a man decides what’s right for his own life
It’s all a mystery

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