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Definitely pick up the Onion’s special “Gay Pride Issue,” the tongue-in-cheek joke paper’s June 26 edition. It’s still on newstands in Washington until a new issue comes out Thursday. It was the funniest issue I’ve seen since the parody paper started distributing in D.C. last year. For me, the laughs started with the front page headline: “Homosexuals — We let them know how gay proud of them we are.” One of my slight disappointments since starting at the Blade was discovering how damn seriously gay activists take themselves. From bristling at the word homosexual (we are what we are!) to making inclusion an alphabet soup of ridiculousness (LGBTQQIA), many gays could stand to deflate their own pompousness a notch or two and this week’s Onion is a good starting point. Don’t get me wrong — I realize it’s a natural reaction to swing toward the earnest side when society hasn’t been taking us seriously for most of the time humans have populated earth. And yet the Onion’s Pride issue absurdities were a nice counter to that trend. Especially clever were the news briefs “Anti-homosexuality sermon suspiciously well informed,” “Catholic Church condemns metrosexuality” and “Area man has sex with man to get out of office blood drive.” Most weeks I’m lucky if the Onion makes me elicit a guffaw — the headlines are usually plenty for me. I find the stories tedious one-trick ponies that aren’t worth the time. But the Pride edition was a glorious exception. Poking fun at minority groups can be dicey — the Onion pulled it off beautifully. I’m keeping a copy for posterity.

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