Do you have any gay stickers on your vehicle(s)?

[cboy4]

I'm really, really curious whether you guys have rainbow or other GLBT-related stickers on your "rides."

If so, have you had problems with vandalism and where do you live......is it a big city/small city.....blue county/red county, etc.

**Also please post your ATM Account and Pin number, along with a major credit card. JUST A JOKE!! :rofl:

edit: for spelling

[Syrinx]

1. I'm sure I could think of a tasteless joke about "gay stickers"

But I'll refrain.

Though I support full gay rights, I don't have any such stickers. I currently have no stickers at all, but I need to find some anti-Bush ones. (Hey maybe... no never mind.) ;)

[RedXIII]

2. .

how come smilies don't work?

[Syrinx]

4. because of the Bush economy?

;)

[Solo_in_MD]

17. I am Like You

No stickers about anything...

[cboy4]

3. For those of you voting for answer #5:

WISE ASSES!!!!! ;)

[Scooter24]

5. I do not have a sticker...

but not out of fear. I just don't care for them. My car is pretty as it is :)

Where I live (Dallas, TX- Highland Park), people are very uptight about not wanting to "damage" or draw attention to their expensive cars. Though I did spot an $80,000 BMW driving around with a "W" flag in their window shortly after the 2004 elections, that pretty much is a rarity.

I'm not worried about actual vandalism around my neighborhood. People here, including most teenagers, are pretty classy and mannered and wouldn't intentionally damage someone else's property. It's when you leave the area that you might run into problems.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Im GAY....

But I have never had the desire to put such a sticker on any of my vehicles, also its a open inventation to vandelism that I dont want to deal with. I live in a conservative fucked-up backwards town in Indiana, its not a major city but its grown in population and was a Red county unfortunatly..Im surrounded by conservative morons...

So, since I didnt put a "Hey, I AM GAY" sticker on my car, I did put an nice "Evolve Fish" on my car.

[Ayesha]

7. Numerous stickers, never vandalized

On my newer car I make all my stickers magnetic using that thin backing you can cut with scissors, so I can even rotate which ones I display with no damage to my car. I live in L.A., so vandalism based on politics isn't a big issue.

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. On my car...

I have:

* Rainbow reflective stripe along the bottom of my back window
* "Happy Humanist" metallic stick-on
* Cling sticker in rear passenger windows: "My religion is to do good - Thomas Paine"

The reflective stripe isn't exactly blatant, but I did buy it at a gay bookstore. I've never been targeted for vandalism, although I have gotten "good ol boys" flipping me off while out driving.

[Cornus]

9. Used to have HRC logo on my old car

But I just got a new car last week and don't think I'll be putting anything on it.

[pro_blue_guy]

oops

[pro_blue_guy]

10. Not a big fan of bumper stickers, they're kind of tacky!

All I have is a AAA sticker (very small, on the passenger side bumper)!

[cboy4]

13. Hey PBG, why you would put an AAA sticker on your

car if you think they're all tacky?

I don't have any stickers on my car, but I know I'd put an HRC, or some other gay-related organization sticker on my car before I'd give AAA free advertising. Anyway, just curious. ;)

[Meeker Morgan]

11. Proud gay, no stickers.

Hell, I live in a big gay-friendly city (Chicago).

Why get into a "more gay than thou" contest?

[kweerwolf]

12. Funny you should mention it ...

... but after replacing a cracked windshield and being "legal" again, I just put a rainbow sticker on my truck today. I also put a "Hate is not a family value" sticker on one side of the bumper and a "Friends don't let friends vote Republican" on the other side.

My last truck had even more outrageous stickers on it and it was never vandalized. I did, however, receive a supportive note while in a parking lot at work once. Maybe since my old truck was a 1980 model everyone figured it wasn't worth vandalizing. I've gotten some odd looks and a few fingers, but those have been more than offset by the "thumbs up" I received even here in middle America.

[Ally McLesbian]

14. No stickers for me...

I live in an extremely homophobic part of Los Angeles County (the Republicans import extra homophobes from Korea - and dump them literally in my neighborhood), so I will NOT risk any damage by putting any stickers on my cars.

And yes, you read me right. This may be Los Angeles County, California, but culturally and politically it's more Orange County.

And honestly, if I were to show gay pride off, I'd have to switch to a different ride. My current ride is a BMW, and a real "gay pride" activist drives a Subaru or a Saab (neither of which I am interested in, frankly). I also have a beat-up Ford, but I'm more likely to think of Ford's neocon contributions and customers than Ford's pro-gay stance when I look at it, so no stickers on it either.

[Ian David]

15. Not gay, but have gay rights stickers. Not vandalized, but got nasty note

My car (not the real license plates)





Nasty note left on my car:



(Notice he says, "F*ck your liberal ass!" Aren't conservatives always obsessed with anal sex?)

Nice note left on my car:

[cboy4]

18. Those are totally awesome stickers!!

The nasty notes...tisk, tisk. I'd recognize Carl Rove's handwriting anywhere!! ;)

[Obamarama]

16. No rainbow stickers for me, please....

I used to have one on my car, but I took it off. Not because my car was vandalized, but because other gay men have tried at various times to hit on me. I've been chatted up by well-intentioned guys in Barnes & Noble and Costco, as well as approached at various rest areas when travelling. The guys at B&N and Costco wanted to ask me out, the guys at the rest areas had something more immediate in mind. Seems they all saw my rainbow sticker.

I wasn't offended by the come-ons, and actually was sort of flattered. But, I'm happily partnered and figured it would just be easier to take the damn thing off. Plus, I've since decided the rainbow flag sort of looks like a saddle blanket for a "My Little Pony." I respect the sentiment behind it and think it's just fine and dandy for anyone to sport it if they want. It's just not my style.

[cboy4]

19. Completely understand your point! ;)

:kick:

[benevolent dictator]

20. I used to just have a rainbow splat on the corner of my back windshield

and a few other progressive stickers on my bumper. I accidentally hit the edge of the splat with an ice scraper and started a bit of it peeling up one winter, but it was fine until the end of the next summer. Once I noticed it missing... well... I now have a rainbow flag sticker (the kind with the stars in the corner), a rainbow stripe flag, a sticker that says VOTER with a rainbow bordering it, an HRC equals sign, and a sticker that says, "Sorry I missed church, I was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian."

That plus I still have my Kerry sticker, Kerry/Edwards sticker, Stop John Roberts, Republicans Are a Sick Perverted Cult, "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act," an Amnesty International sticker, a DU sticker, a League of Conservation Voters window cling, a Wake-Up Wal-Mart bumpersticker, and the anti-Wal-Mart sticker from Reclaim Democracy. I think that's it.

Yeah... I pretty much don't have a visible bumper anymore.

*EDIT*
Oh, I'm from the Detroit area, so blue state, but it can get kinda red once you're outside of the actual city...

[cboy4]

21. Your poor bumper! I especially love the sorry I missed

church/witchcraft lesbian sticker!! Bwahahaha
That has to piss off the fundamentalist christians!!! :rofl:

Actually, all of your stickers are pretty damn good. Bravo! :applause:

[benevolent dictator]

22. Thank you! Although a lot of cops don't think so...

I once got pulled over for speeding, and the cop felt the need to write down that I had 2 Kerry stickers and a "Republicans are a perverted cult" sticker. (This was back before I had quite so many.) One of the first things he said to me, too, was "Don'tcha think it's about time to take those bumperstickers off?" I think it was late January '05. Thank goodness I haven't been pulled over since I've added all of those other stickers!

[cboy4]

24. You know, what a dick!!!....And what a shame you seemingly have

to worry about whether the types of bumper stickers you put on your car will lead to harassment and or a ticket from A-hole Bush-supporting cops like that prick who stopped you!

That makes me really :mad: !!!!!!

[jackpan1260]

23. I am not a bumper sticker person. eom

[Chalice_Thunder]

25. I proudly display

the tasteful blue and yellow HRC logo on my bumper. (looks great on black!)

Here in Seattle, I see them every day. It's cool to drive by members of the tribe and share a :hi: or a :thumbsup:

No vandalism to report...

...except maybe occasional seagull who has had too much for lunch and good aim!! :rofl:

[cboy4]

26. I hate the HRC logo......LOL!!

N/T

[Jella]

27. I don't do stickers, but....

I did buy a Mazda from a gay friend and it had a few stickers on it. Celebrate Diversity, the ying-yang thang, and hatred is not a family value.

I ran a store, and had a few young cops that like to hang around and yak with me and my hottie blonde associate during the day. They noticed the stickers right away, and gave me the business about them. We had always went back and forth on issues, but they had no idea I was gay, well up until shortly after I bought the car, and decided to share more of my liberal views with them. They toned down their garbage talk about fags, and they really did say all kinds of shite before they figured out I was one of them.... I just let them go on, and even laughed at their jokes. All part of my research of life and people.

I liked the guys for the most part, but after they figured it out they really did tone it down, and didn't talk politics with me any more. One of them started coming in by himself and would talk to me and hang around a little longer than he had used too. Good looking married cop. He looked directly at me, much more than he had in the past. I loath most cops, but respect cops as a profession, and he helped me realize that not all cops are bigoted.

It becomes too easy to get tainted from a majority, and it was nice to have him restore some faith.

[cboy4]

28. That's an interesting story! The way you think about cops

is the way I feel about Christians -- I feel like all Christians are against me when I know that's not the case.

I have one Catholic friend who is religious, but she is so nice and supportive. It makes me feel like I shouldn't lump all Christians in the same group as Pat Robertson and other bigots.

[Jella]

29. Yes I know what you mean about Christians......

While I know that many are not like Pat Robertson, they do have their ideals that view homosexuality as a sin. Not until the gay marriage issue had I considered these Christians as foes. I felt that I could live with them feeling that my very being was somehow flawed, but since I've seen the numbers that appose gay marriage, something like 65% I've had to rethink my tolerance for all Christians. Before I could tolerate them feeling that it was ok to be gay, but not ok to marry, and dismissing the love between two men as not worthy or could not possibly compare to a heterosexual relationship, and the thought of 6 out of 10 feeling this way was the most disturbing revelation in my 42 years as a gay man.

Knowing gay couples that have been together for 25 years and better, and hearing of the down right hateful ways in which a surviving partner had been treated, not only by the family but the courts in this country has changed me forever. I don't think I can accept any excuse, and for most their trouble with gay marriage comes directly from their ideals rooted in their religion.

I had always been respectful of others and their religion, and allowed them to get to know me, and see the true face of a gay man. I don't look gay, and most have no clue until they get to know me, and I let on with my views and when I speak of my friends and companions. It reminds me of the scene in Torch Song Trilogy, when he and Ma were at the cemetery, and where saying a prayer to each of their spouses, when Ma read him for having the same feelings for his dead partner, and her asking him if he could really compare his lose with hers, a man she had spent her life with, raised children with, and just her resentment at the audacity that he could even approach such love that I realized just a year or so ago, that most Christians feel just that way. As if they have the only right to that type of love, and that ours is just some sickness, and sex.

I will never accept any excuse based in Religious Ideology, and my respect for Christian friends will now most definitely hing on just that one issue. They may not need my respect, but to be sure they will not get it, and I'm sure in many cases they will lose my friendship. This goes for my family as well. If my pool of friends drys up to just those 4 out of 10, to me now, it's worth it.

I have given and given, and allowed those to judge me and me accepting that as well, it's just a part of our friendship, but I will no longer accept that. I know over the years I have changed some hetro's thoughts on what a gay person is like, many have told me so. I feel good about that, hey one at a time right, but as much as I've thought times were changing for the better for gays, I was not prepared for the numbers against gay marriage. When I ask why, most can't give me a valid answer, and as I've said, Religious Ideology plays a huge role.

I have been asked to Marry and raise kids with two gals in my life, me as the father of someone else's children, while flattered, I wouldn't do it. Not only is it not fair to the fathers of those kids, but to the mothers as well. As time would pass, the resentment would most surely seep in, and itwould get ugly and painful. I would have been proud to be a father, and felt I would have been a good one, but marriage to me has always been a special institution, and aside from any religion, I believe in vows made between two people and respect those that have made it a life long endeavor.