Is this in poor taste for the Pride Parade or Not?

Question

For the Pride Parade in June next year, we have already begun practicing our performance. The problem is that the city has a member of the city council who is a member of the Jewish Faith who is objecting to our performance. Here is our performance. We appear at five places along the parade route. We ride in a van on the periphery of the parade, and then show up at five places. First, we have someone with a megaphone announce that the "German Gay Pride Contingent" will now be appearing. Everyone in the crowd looks around, wondering what the German Contingent is. At that point six of us jump from the back of the van, and roller blade from a side street into the parade. All of us are very short, slender, boyish, clean shaven men who are dressed in authentic Bavarian Lederhosen outfits. I am 33 years old, but I am five foot four, 118 pounds. I am the oldest guy buy I have almost no beard and look very young. I have shoulder length black hair that I dye blond for the perfomance. We all look really young. We come out, start skating, and start screaming in high pitched voices (like boys) in German (we have someone who wrote a script who speaks German) and we are skating at top speed, and acting like we are scared or something and we are looking around and pointing. Then the crowd sees why we are in a panic. Suddenly six huge guys all dressed in quasi SS uniforms run through the crowd and start chasing us. The uniforms have no Nazi markings of any kind whatsoever. But, they are black leather uniforms with military peaked caps and boots. So there is no Nazi insignia, but the black uniforms, black boots, and black military hats leave no doubt for what we are implying. At this point the crowd starts laughing. In the context of the Gay Pride parade the unspoken assumption is that the big guys in Black Uniforms are chasing the "Boys" in Lederhosen to make unwanted advances on their virtue. We have a member of the group who is in the Movie Industry. And he have a very carefully rehearsed slapstick show of the Big Guys doing this Keyston Cops routine trying to catch us, and the Lederhosen boys skillfully escaping every time at the last moment like the Roadrunner. All the while, we are screaming and yelling in German. For example I have this routine where two really big guys (one is six four, the other is six foot six) both try to grab me at the same time. I drop down at the last moment, and escape by skating between the guy's legs. We spend a lot of time rehearsing this, and we get it down to a science, and usually the crowd hoots and hollers and loves it. Then after our performance, we skate off of the parade, jump back into the van, and hop in for the next performance. We get rave reviews. We rehearse it to death, and our moves are good, and everyone likes us. However we are being told that our performance is in poor taste because of the "Nazi" element of our show. Do you think this is in poor taste?

Answer 1

No, the Jewish man oughtn't be offended. Many people were persecuted by the Nazis, including Gays. And we hear next to nothing of Gay survivors or what happened to Gays in Concentration Camps. Gays had to wear a pink triangle and were particularly targeted, by all accounts.

The Pride Parade has everything - over-the-top, political fire-btrands, Dykes-on-Bikes, University students, etc., etc., etc. It's a day where everyone comes out to demonstrate our diversity. There is no "mould". We are a complete cross-section.

Answer 2

If it's already worrying people, change the costumes to something else equally kinky. Little devils maybe?



If it MAY offend people, you know it WILL. And let's face it, if you are trying to project a "proud" image, the last thing you need is negative publicity. I "get" how it's meant to be funny, but Nazis are still a touchy subject...do you really need to go there even if it's not actually carrying a swastika?



Personally, I think the whole thing is tacky and unceccessary. I'm not in the least bit offended by smooth pretty gay men skating around looking smooth and pretty, but it's pointless.



Being gay is nothing to be "proud" of any more than being straight is. It ought to be normal by now,and the best way to achieve that normality is to carry on with your life as normal and keep on campaigning for equality.

Answer 3

I think this sounds more like a script of what you'd like to play out.

Otherwise, there are comic books and movies that you could successfully approach for this kink wherein everyone would just get along and certainly never forget.

Answer 4

Yes.