the onion has been celebrating its 10-year anniversary with highlights from the past decade. today i came across a very funny headline from 2001: “gay pride parade sets mainstream acceptance of gays back 50 years.” the article is very funny and very sarcastic - and frighteningly not too far off the mark.

my favorite part: “‘i always thought gays were regular people, just like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-crazed deviants was just a destructive myth,’ said mother of four hannah jarrett, 41, mortified at the sight of 17 tanned and oiled boys cavorting in jock straps to a throbbing techno beat on a float shaped like an enormous phallus. ‘boy, oh, boy, was i wrong.’”