Kilted Mayor

**Raphael** · 4th August 04, 06:54 AM

Vancouver Mayor, Larry Campbell, was seen at the Vancouver Gay Pride Festival wearing his Utilikilt this past weekend. Hopefully, he will attend one of our Kilts Night one day.

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 4th August 04, 07:29 AM

Comment retracted for sake of decorum.

**Colin** · 4th August 04, 09:10 AM

Who cares where he is wearing his kilt, as long as he is wearing it out in public.

I know Bear has invited Larry Campbell out to a few kilt nights, but he has yet to attend.

**bear** · 4th August 04, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jimmy Carbomb

Originally Posted by bcmtnbka

...Gay Pride Festival wearing his Utilikilt...

Well, there's a fine help in alleviating the stigma that came from the whole MSM event!

There is no stigma from MSM.

Most people didn't hear of the MSM. Those that did mostly remember a bunch of guys in kilts in NY.

Utilikilts actively markets and sells to the gay community and it hasn't hurt their macho reputation.

We kilt wearers are going to have to get over the fears of looking gay or effeminate. Kilts are neither. People understand that a kilt is different than an ordinary skirt. It is a skirt worn by warriors and rebels; a symbol of masculinity.

**Rhino** · 5th August 04, 01:26 AM

I wouldn't worry too much, one of my mates (who is gay) has said that to the gay community (in the Midlands UK at least) is passe and wouldn't be seen dead in one.
I was walking through Soho on Sunday and got mixed up in the Soho pride parade and the only kilt in sight was mine. Now if I'd been wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes.........

Cheers Rhino

**Plastic Paddy** · 5th August 04, 08:26 AM

Gay or straight, it doesn't matter much. He was kilted. If he was kilted at a fire fighters chili cook off, I would not say that he must be a fire fighter.

Sure there will be some ignorant thug who associates a kilt with being feminine, but when someone tells me, with a smile, that my kilt looks a little girlie, I ask, "Well then it won't look good for you when I kick your @r$e, then will it?" Always said with a smile, but the question is in their mind, and therefore I've already won. In a true confrontation, I will always walk away.

The above is not suggested behavior nor do I encourage it in others.

Slainte,

Tobie

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 5th August 04, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Rhino

Now if I'd been wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes.........

Cheers Rhino

Hank!!!

Make him stop!!!

It's burning my eyes!!!

**bear** · 5th August 04, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by bear@bearkilts.com

Originally Posted by Jimmy Carbomb

Originally Posted by bcmtnbka

...Gay Pride Festival wearing his Utilikilt...

Well, there's a fine help in alleviating the stigma that came from the whole MSM event!

There is no stigma from MSM.

Most people didn't hear of the MSM. Those that did mostly remember a bunch of guys in kilts in NY.

Utilikilts actively markets and sells to the gay community and it hasn't hurt their macho reputation.

We kilt wearers are going to have to get over the fears of looking gay or effeminate. Kilts are neither. People understand that a kilt is different than an ordinary skirt. It is a skirt worn by warriors and rebels; a symbol of masculinity.

Jimmy,
In the 'can't win either way' category:
I would never ask you to pull a post, and I honestly wish you hadn't. As much as I don't like it when he does it, I'd rather have Hank pull the plug on a thread than have someone back off a stand for the sake of decorum. There's too much decorum nowadays for my liking.
I wasn't too happy about the way the MSM went as far as the media coverage went but if anyone ever asked me about the guys in women's skirts there, I would have told them that 90% of the guys there were in kilts and the media went for the 10% in drag.
And I don't totally blame the media. They just deliver what the public wants. If we all didn't read newspapers that take everything to the lowest levels of journalism, we wouldn't get this kind of coverage.
Then again, if most guys were that intelligent, they'd be wearing kilts and we wouldn't be talking here.
Kilts have been around long enough and are known world wide as a garment for men. Men in women's skirts will not change this. Women in kilts will not change this. Boneheads that believe what they read in a newspapers won't change this.

**Rob** · 5th August 04, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by bear@bearkilts.com

If we all didn't read newspapers that take everything to the lowest levels of journalism, we wouldn't get this kind of coverage.

Bear,

Is there any other kind of newspaper? If so, I have yet to find it.

Rob

**phil h** · 5th August 04, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Rhino

I wouldn't worry too much, one of my mates (who is gay) has said that to the gay community (in the Midlands UK at least) is passe and wouldn't be seen dead in one.
I was walking through Soho on Sunday and got mixed up in the Soho pride parade and the only kilt in sight was mine. Now if I'd been wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes.........

Cheers Rhino

RHINO PLEASE!!!!

that's one mental picture I DON'T need.
you in a pair of daisy dukes