A Gaythering Storm
So yet another hysterical parody of NOM’s “Gathering Storm” ad has been made and it ended with this clever domain name. Strangely enough, Funny or Die didn’t register the domain. So I decided it was worth setting up just to keep the conversation going – FOR Gay Marriage.
Here’s the parody:
So what should we do with this domain? Comments or suggestions?
print the name of every str8 person who disgraces their opposite marriage by getting a divorce. protect marriage. outlaw divorce!!
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Seconding/thirding the suggestion to add sharing links for facebook, twitter, digg, etc. Facebook instructions here: http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php
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admin Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for the suggestion. Now in place.
I’m using addthis.com because I’m too busy (lazy) to do something more creative.
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They were crazy not to register. Nice job!
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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU are the reason gays don’t want to come out. THEY ARE SCARED OF IDIOTS LIKE YOU. I know gay people. You people are fucking stupid. ALL of you in the “funny parody” are stupid, acting or not, you should all rot in hell. Fuck all of you and everyone who supports this cause.
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admin Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 6:26 pm
@Mikiel McRae,
Wait — everyone in the video, and all of us on this site, are in support of Gay Marriage and LGBTQ people in general. I am one of them. This video (and now this site) are making fun of an organization called the National Organization for Marriage. NOM is a well funded attack on the rights of gay people. They would be very happy if we all just go back into the closet.
If we can’t make fun of the situation, then there’s no hope at all.
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Paula Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 9:41 pm
@admin,
Don’t worry, if Mikiel misunderstood, then s/he will figure it out. If not, don’t feed the fire s/he just doesn’t get it.
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Willy Boy Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
@Mikiel McRae,
Um, what?
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mishi Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
@Mikiel McRae, Gosh, the queers whom you know are really lucky people, too.
Now back to your anger management class, k?
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Miss California now claims she lost her Miss Universe crown to Miss North Carolina because she told Perez Hilton she’s against gay marriage (or for “opposite marriage”). The unspoken premise I suppose is that she’s WAAAAAY prettier than that skank Miss North Carolina who won. Fox News is really whipping it up. They’ve printed about six articles on it. They want to make her one of those Gathering Storm stories: “I am a California mall chick, forced to choose between a rhinestone tiara and my beliefs; I am afraid.”
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I tried to post a bunch of links to the other “Gathering Storm” parodies, but the site says I’m spamming and won’t let me. Peccato.
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admin Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Sorry about that. The spam filters are being overly aggressive. It doesn’t like when there are more than a couple of links. If you want to try again, I’ve disabled part of the spam checks.
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ducdebrabant Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
@admin,
Thanks. Here goes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8c1423TVgA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJGR8YDd_lU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJxMCqvUIs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGe8DwBs-s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhuPJV0A4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mQVT2SC3M0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWf1rHiAlEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pPEAdDn64
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/224789/april-16-2009/the-colbert-coalition-s-anti-gay-marriage-ad
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ducdebrabant Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 6:51 pm
@ducdebrabant,
And some more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZMz-WpOGIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8c1423TVgA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJxMCqvUIs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMS5x7uIRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJz9Srz2iQc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1r_DSX_yDQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhTQiTcWMo&feature=related
Sandy Reply:
April 24th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Just humor ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Na83zbo4qY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsPOhxgV_A&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2dmwGAks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT5qyVQnBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNgRV64S-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F40LRG9wDWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxiIbfriZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6W24qGlZb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvartZ4EpQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_YDTy9DfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSb3jiuIhUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1me9acAGgWQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okM0a-rCmf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3effeQrHArM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_a5FJjH-Kc
The material is a no-brainer. What’s more gay-repellent than polyester?
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You could make the umbrella plaid, because, you know, it’s tacky.
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I’d say do more hilarious skits of the manufacturing of the umbrella, awesome work!!!
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Awesome job. Thank you for picking up the domain registration end of this movement. That’s a bit crazy that Funny or Die and the celebs in the video didn’t think of making it a real website. It also shows that people who will actually take the time to type in the long, ridiculously funny name of the domain are committed to moving this end of the discussion forward. Yeah smart, caring people.
http://www.rebekahgreen.com
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Maybe a muzak version of “It’s Raining Men” when you enter the site? That can’t be original but I am too lazy to read all 74 posts. Hooray Gays!!!
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Paula Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 9:43 pm
@Phaedrus,
Ooh, Muzak version on the electric organ.
Good idea. Or maybe a midi of it.
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I think you should use this website to raise funds to promote marriage equality for GLBT people!
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This is seriously one of the funniest things in the entire world. i love it.
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Wow! This is really funny and brings joy to my day. I salute what you’ve done here! Please check out my website http://www.erikgarneau.com I have been working hard to fight for gay rights, and have used some of your videos from Funny Or Die.
xo
Erik
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I wonder how many gay repellent umbrellas you would have to sell before you could air this on national television.
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Maybe put a link to my site? uh I would die of joy and you would be my hero! think about it:)
Erik
Toronto, ON Canada
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While I do not have experience in umbrella construction, I have since my early youth been working on a vaccine which I think may be useful to your cause. I refer, of course, to the “circle, circle, dot, dot” which has proven effective against the dreaded “cootie.”
That said. Keep up the good work. Spread love not H8.
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Hi everybody!
Defending the rights of gay people is your goal, keep it real, this girl, Miss California, she just said what she believes and how she was raised and youre totally making fun of her and trying to expose her like she is your enemy.
Certainly, she stand out for her own opinion and you criticize her for that. People are free, she didn’t say she hate gay people, she doesn’t agree eighter but that’s part of human nature.
I just want to say that Perezhilton didn’t get it right this time, he was very mean in his videoblog I know that he feels hurt because of Miss California’ answer to his question but he has to realize that it was nothing against him or against gay people, it is like any other topic, there is people that agree and there is people that doesn’t. Now tv shows are going to use him (I mean Perez Hilton) as he does with celebritys on his web page just to get the raitings up and not because they really care about the future of gay marriage.
I Agree with all of you on trying hard every day to succeed in your cause, and now taking this funny or die idea, it’s really great, but please don’t play war, try to make it peacefully, do not throw insulting comments against innocent heterosexual people or people who is pretty close to religion who does not discriminate gay people.
Finally, a joke its ok.
And Don’t get bitch, or witch.
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ducdebrabant Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
@ME, Wow, have I really lived long enough that being a narrowminded, Bible-citing Protestant bimbo no longer helps you win a beauty pageant?
All my life, the regularity with which being an explicit Christian (or stretching the point, sometimes a Jew) has pushed women over the finish line in these contests, and being an Atheist, a Muslim, or (God forbid) a lesbian was a nonstarter, has been the stuff of standup comedy. Now, all of a sudden, a girl seems to be at a disadvantage because she talks like Rick Warren, and everybody’s outraged?
You say she shouldn’t be disqualified for having the “wrong” opinions? Wow, you folks never seemed to think so back when the “wrong” opinions were not your own.
No, she is not a martyr. No, this is not God’s test of her faith (unless the rest of her life turns out to be unusually smooth sailing). It’s a stupid beauty pageant, not the Book of Job. The dame takes herself way too seriously in the first place, and with Fox News trying to make her the face of persecuted homophobic Christianity, there’s very little chance she’ll chill out anytime soon an stop whining (or, by implication, insulting the winner).
As for Perez Hilton, he’s a joke and completely unworthy to judge the contest, but not because he’s a gay man. Any gay man on the judging panel would be offended by somebody reducing his own civil rights to a matter of opinion and different upbringing. She wasn’t raised a Jew either, but if she thought the only legal marriages should be marriages sanctified in a Christian church, we’d hear plenty of squawking.
If it’s really true that Miss Universe should represent the best of society’s values, then the judges are not only permitted but required to judge her values. By whose standards, then, are they to judge them? Their own, or those of the people who would deny them the equal protection of this country’s laws?
But if the only thing we’re supposed to consider is the right shade of lip gloss and how she looks in a bikini, let’s finally admit it and stop asking these women any questions at all.
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mishi Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
@ducdebrabant,
lip gloss! More lip gloss!!!
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Sandy Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
@ME, It’s not just a question of agreeing or disagreeing when one side is denying the human rights of the other. And as far as justifying anti gay marriage beliefs as religiously correct – please read the bible and attempt to count how many of God’s laws we break on a daily basis. Start with Leviticus. Anyone who tries to hide behind religion on this issue is a bigger blasphemer than they see the gays as being. The people religiously justifying their beliefs are basically saying that most of God’s other laws aren’t really important in today’s society so we can ignore them… but this one here about man laying with man… well He was serious about that one.
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Damn you beat me to it! I found that the domain was still unowned less than 3 hours ago but by the time I got home and put enough money on my credit card (and guilted a friend into helping me design a site) you had bought it. Oh well, you’ll do a much better job than I would have.
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I love this! Thank you for the humor. Thank you! Thank you for the perspective. Do you think those who are against gay married read this and get it?
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I live in Seattle! We know a lot about umbrellas! I’ll help!
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What about turning it into an online “coming out hub”, where people can come out online by creating a brief profile (name, photo, personal testimony), and then sending it to their friends and families?
“Once they know they know one of us, they vote for us two to one.”
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let me voice my vegetarian atheist socialist support. not that it’s kosher, cuz it’s not. but i am a vegetarian atheist socialst american, responsible and kind and volunteer-oriented, and this ad is fucking awesome. discrimination is a plague that spreads via religion and ignorance. keep up the good work.
peace
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There’s no reason to stop at umbrellas. I’m seeing an entire line of gay repellents and other products for the concerned proponent of man-lady marriage. I mean, let’s be honest: if it’s raining hard, an umbrella doesn’t keep you 100% dry. It’s not a bad first line of defense, but consumers are going to want to know about options for back up. They’ll also want to protect their homes, children and pets. And I’m sure you can think of a product to help that doctor who fears being overrun by the gay menace.
It might not be a bad idea to develop a special condom for straight men, so they can enjoy the occasional meaningless tryst with a nice gentleman without running the risk of becoming gay. A lady equivalent would be necessary as well, of course. This will be especially important for the young folks who’d like to experiment in college, but don’t want to jeopardize their chances of developing a traditionally homophobic political stance as they grow older.
I commend you for identifying a threat and using good old American ingenuity to exploit it for profit. I plan to order umbrellas for all of my loved ones.
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ysubassoon Reply:
May 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@laura,
I, too, see plenty of room for expansion on the concept of a gay repellant umbrella. As a lesbian, though, my thoughts naturally turn more toward hardware. I’m thinking tarps, a line of garish paint colors, roofing shingles, plastic furniture covers, etc. Also a whole line of rain gear.
I also second the idea for a giant gay repellant trampoline. When it’s my turn to dance at you from the sky, I want a nice bouncy landing.
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you should sell umbrellas and donate the proceeds to equality orgs! you would raise a TON of money!
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Amie Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 am
@Richard, you sooo beat me to the punch. I didnt see your comment prior to leaving mine =(
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I think we should make this website an activist hub for LGBT rights. I think it would be such a waste to make this a joke umbrella site with a flash game. What is needed is a place for all of these struggles to come together and coordinate from!
There should be a forum discussion. There should be newsletter updates. There should be a place that has all of the LGBT activists groups from around the country listed so you can get involved locally. It should also be focused on more than just gay-marriage. I think this website should work on LGBT oppression in all aspects of life such as hate crimes and the legal firing of LGBTQ peoples.
I think this should be an activist site that inspires, coordinates, and organizes people into real struggles.
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I think we can keep a lot of the light-hearted parodies and other internet satires against opponents of gay-marriage. But I think this should be an “umbrella” organization, if you will. Where no matter if you are a Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist or something else… that you should be able to find a place to continue to fight for gay marriage in a productive way.
Event posts for rallies and protests. Internet blogs and rants about equality. Internet petitions. Political debate forums. Direct action networks. News stories on the front page.
Just based on some of the comments on this site so far, I’m thinking a lot of people might be bored by something like this. Well, this isn’t just a fun internet joke to people who are on the front lines of fighting for LGBT rights.
But I do think we should keep the satirical posts and vids. It doesn’t have to be ALL activism… but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give people a way to get involved that is more than just a link to other LGBT activist groups.
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Suggestion? More glitter and comfortable shoes.
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Donations for the umbrella (Small print would state that money actually went to a sensible cause)
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Use it as an ongoing database & FOD reaction to the Man Lady & Non-Man Lady events.
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You should have the option to buy a gay repelling umbrella with the proceeeds goings to human rights groups. I’d love to help. Then everyone can be funny, gay (no pun intended), and dry =P
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Giant Gay Repellent Umbrella (or “GGRU”) should consider taking the 1.5 million dollar offer to sell their webiste to “NORMALER” (or Nation Organization Restricting Marriage And Legal Equal Rights). Better acronyms will always win!Discuss amongst yourself.
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You should make an actual website. I’m sure that someone would do a freebie if they could plug their company in the corner.
And the site should sell anti-gay umbrellas, with the profits going to some sort of marriage equality activist group. Perhaps you could even have a contest where people can join the “gay rain” like they would a club.
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Well done!
Keep the links to other orgs and sites.
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great way of sending awareness out about gay marriages
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I think that someone needs to build an ark so that all of the straight (opposite marriage) people can be saved from the flood that is created from this gay-marriage storm.
After all, gay marriage will undoubtedly create gay children.
It will be known that this flood has ended when a white bird, a dove, returns to the ark with a fig branch, and a vast, bright rainbow will arch across the sky, but not for gays anymore, but for opposite marriage.
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Can we get the Batman logo on the umbrella? That would look cool!
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“Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
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I think you should give the website a theme song, oh something like “It’s Raining Men” would do nicely.
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This is NOT a laughing matter. What if the umbrella doesn’t work and I’m forced to marry Bill O’Reilly? Or Rush Limbaugh? Or worse, be kidnapped, taken to some renegade Mormon ranch, and be forcibly married to both Bill O’Reily AND Rush Limbaugh? And a goat?
My God! And to Karl Rove! And Newt Gingrich! And TWO goats! And a sheep!!!
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I love Sophia Bush for doing this. All these celebs have my sincere thanks!
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Not only do we need the GayRepellent Umbrella, but we will need GayRepellent Towels, GayRepellent Smoking Shelters, GayRepellent Kennels, GayRepellent EVERYTHING!!!
I mean, what else can we get gay married?
Won’t someone please think of the children?
Maybe we can get some singers to do a big huge GayRepellent Anthem? Something by The Jonas Brothers.
Or someone as equally shit.
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i fell we shood find a horrible floral design, make it in spandex,and add a bunch of ugly beading and buttons. that ill keep em away 4 good
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I think the umbrella should be puce. Or at least, it should clash with the grass. And probably smeared with, like, uncooked hamburger. And pictures of Jerry Fallwell. So they won’t, get it ??? !!!
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When all those gay people cascade off the umbrella, they can drain into Canada. We’ve had same-sex marriage for years.
The weather hasn’t changed, except for global warming, of course.
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I do hope you/we/us/them create an umbrella! I would buy a few!
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You guys are brilliant. Love your mocking of the haters.
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Definitely we have got to market anti-gay hand sanitizing gel along with the umbrellas!
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This is absolutely ridiculous!
Summer is almost here! What kind of storms can we expect. How much rain can happen in the Spring/Summer that we’d need umbrellas.
What this nation needs is gay-repellent swim-wear, sandals and parasols!
I mean PUH-LEEES!
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Gay it up. We want a gay gay gay domain. We aren’t safe anywhere else. We also want a protective layer of glitter for us and the unicorns.
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