The Original Fanatic Dit-vious this I have seen my bestie leered at many a time, although I do still on extremism concede that anyone wearing skin tight bright purple female pants (when they have a penis) deserves to be laughed at. These two snap incidences aside, my life has basically been bliss with boy on boy action at the pub never seeming to bother anyone. Teddy bears made way for real ‘bears’ and candy canes were swapped with real canes to appease those who were into bondage. Free love filled the streets and the choir sang out in harmony until that fateful day when BANG, the AIDS virus became an issue again. Unbeknown to many in the ‘breeding’ community, Adelaide currently has the highest increase in HIV infection of any major gay community few things come to mind when in Australia. Us filthy faggots deserve it, as I am sure the closeted I think of ‘Fanatic’ but nothing (Ooo, that was a good one!) priests that touch little boys in their no-no parts would say. An Aintrigues me more than the abomination against god, our way of life simply must be stopped, Maenad. I don’t know if this is because So what is so good about this Dionysus War in Iraq, genocide in Rwanda; the world is full of extremists mustn’t it? Why else is AIDS only considered a gay problem … well most Saturday nights I pretty much become and how does he get all the girls naked so it would seem. no not only a gay problem, but also a problem the blacks face. Can’t a Maenad or what, but these crazed women and running around in honour of his glory? convert them? Instead, let’s introduce a way to wipe them out. I’m are the original fanatics of booze, freedom Well, firstly he is a god and if that doesn’t Let’s then take a walk down memory lane and talk about another sure that the woman who protested at Heath Ledger’s funeral would and sex. My kind of party person. do something for you then nothing will. He type of hate crime: minority abuse. Oh sure, you love God and God be happy with the severity of painful punishment that our kind are is also a god that can never be revealed to loves you and Jesus sits on his perch up in heaven, looking down on dealt. After all, AIDS does not exist in the straight community, I’m But who or what is a Maenad and how you. The Greeks believed that when you saw out centuries ago without the intoxicating the heathens with his judging eyes. The sun is shining, it is a beautiful sure she would have you believe. Oh poor woman, I raise my glass to do I bed one, you ask boys? A Maenad is the true face of a god, you would instantly properties that make the most boring human day and the world of Christians, Muslims and in fact, almost every you. Here’s to wishing that you have a lazy ovary and never produce the manic, fanatic and dramatic lover of die. This particularly works in Dionysus’ being a delight to be with. religion imaginable is filled with rainbows and puppies. The most hate-filled offspring. Dionysus. She belongs to the most ancient favour. His Maenads could therefore come spectacular rainbow is vomiting love, which flows down the rivers of fan clubs, where she actually believes the up with any image of the perfect man/god He was the original Mick Jagger where sex, and into every home through a series of complex water treatment On a lighter note however, with the current era has come a star is present at the meetings and sometimes for themselves and spend the rest of their drugs and rock n’ roll took place of hard work facilities. The world really is a magical place until the distant sound of fascination with the gays. Ten percent of the population, supposedly he is (depending on the story). Maenads are days dreaming about it - E.g. Johnny Depp. and stale bread. And how did these people a record scratching in the background halts this blissful existence. ‘that way inclined’ has made the topic of gaydom much less taboo. A famous for ditching their husbands at home Secondly, he is beautiful. Some describe get away with such behaviour? Whack the “Hold on,” the narrator’s voice calls out. Rainbows may be eminent friend of mine was rather chuffed with the fact that she boasts four and taking to the hills, dancing nude, singing him as almost effeminate, which to most label ‘religion’ on it and voila you’ve got in the world of gay, but they certainly aren’t vomiting love, or are gays on her facebook. Good on you love, I have more than 100. to the moon, eating the raw flesh of a wild women, seeing part of themselves in a man a license to get as crazy and erotic as you they? animals and praising the beauty, sexuality is a mystical and attractive thing. He is want. It is any wonder that these Maenads It saddens me when religion gets in the way of friendship and and ecstasy that Dionysus provides them. sensitive, a great lover and knows how to went gar gar over the big D, it’s because they Very much in vogue in the late nineties was lesbianism. The understanding but to be honest, in the opinion of this poof, there They are the sort of girls that live in a have fun. He is almost always depicted nude were drunk! And how many times have you noughties however, have seen a new age of homosexual love with the really is not much of a divide anymore. If there is; then is it actually trance so beautiful that you just can’t wait with flowing locks and if any of you have ever convinced yourselves that you had your very gay male being all the rage. noted or all in your head? Though there may be only one official gay to join them. They are the girls who devote read a Mills & Boon, you’ll know this is the own Dionysus/Aphrodite getting nasty with bar in Adz, there’s more more to it than that. There’s Rundle Street, themselves to someone they can never ideal man. Being half human, he can identify you on the dance floor. And were you drunk? So while fanatics the world over still fling religious hate against various pubs and clubs, many disgusting beats that should be avoided attain, but always remain in hope that he with the ladies but is also a god which makes Nothing’s changed people! We have to have the homosexuals, one can not help but draw the similarities between at all costs and even Australia’s largest gay and lesbian festival hosted will come for them one day. Sound familiar him highly desirable as a potential lover/ a great respect for a god who wants us to them and monkeys flinging poo. The difference being that monkeys in our most wholesome city of churches. ladies? How many times have you pined after father. have a good time, who thinks getting nasty is are actually considered intelligent animals – bible bashers are not. Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp? How many times all that, and no matter what disease you pick Now happy homos, let’s not forget that we are in Adelaide. There is It may be the city of churches, but Adelaide is damn near one of have you ached deep in your heart knowing However, the most important thing about up or how many pregnancies you endure/ no Deep South and no slack jawed yokels here; no overly powerful the most accepting cities, for Australians who love a bit of double that you will never be with them secretly this love god, is wine and the freedom/loss terminate, as long as you’re still partying it’s religious sects. How then can A-town’s gay scene scream rape when breasted, or sausage sizzle action. Feast festival draws crowds hoping that one day, you will be their chosen of inhibitions that comes with drinking it. He cool. (Was that too harsh?) there is a severe lack of gay hate? Perhaps I am just blindly oblivious both interstate and internationally. Perhaps it is because there is a one. It’s the same here. taught the Greeks and therefore the rest of to the fact that hate crimes and minority abuse run rampant in the rather butch looking female named Shaniqua guarding the entrance the world how to make wine (there’s So next time you pour yourself a glass of town, but for someone who has only lived in Adelaide’s inner suburbs, to Picnic, or perhaps it is because straights have m a t u r e d The Maenad is the no point denying it, the Greeks red (which will most likely be tonight), thank one can draw the conclusion that homophobia is on a slow and sure enough to accept us as Adelaidians. woman who can’t once knew their shit). Now that sexy god on top of the hill for helping downward spiral. Here, we boast a relative freedom help herself. She this is the sort of god we you to lose your virginity. And then thank from religious fanaticism and hate. has shaken off the like. He basically wanted him for giving his Maenads a way out of the This quaint little city has moved ahead in leaps and bounds since Whichever the reason, I for one am shackles of home/ all of his peeps, which boredom of housework.