When I was first trying to come out to my mother (yes, you may know how the story goes - you know, she knows, you know that she knows, but the pink elephant can be ignored), she started quite passive agressively blurbing out homophobic comments. It was, I guess, her way of saying, "I know what you're up to, and I don't agree."

The comments started with, "Oh, my goodness, did you hear that Jodie Foster is a lesbian?!" There were others I don't exactly remember, but the one that will always remain in my heart was [as my mother pointed to our bedsheets we have had since the 70's, with rainbows on them], "Why did gays have to pick the rainbow as their flag? They have now ruined my sheets!"

So, yes, those gays have forever ruined all that which is rainbow-colored. So...how about Rainbow Brite as our poster girl, ladies?