New York’s Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
On Weekend Edition Saturday, New Yorkers get a taste of Doug Quint’s Big Gay Ice Cream Truck:
“If I weren’t gay, I wouldn’t call it the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. And if I weren’t happy, I wouldn’t have the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. It would just be the big crabby ice cream truck,” Quint says.
Quint, who is a classically trained bassoonist, has only been in the ice cream business for a few months. The ice cream truck is just a summer gig while most orchestras are on break.
From Quint’s Big Gay Ice Cream Truck blog:
Last week George Bodarky, host of an excellent local public radio show called Cityscape, came by the truck. Some of you even spoke to his microphone; thanks for being good sports. George has assembled a bit about BGICT, and it will air [on Weekend Edition sometime Saturday morning]. I haven’t heard the segment, but since I have George’s phone number I suspect he would not say anything too vicious.
Photo credit: Bryan Petroff.
23 Responses to “New York’s Big Gay Ice Cream Truck”
Weird.
Oh I get it, advertising homosexuality to their main clientele: children.
Sil, children are in far more danger from heterosexual men. How is it that your ideas on homosexuality are stuck back in the 1950s?
And yet you wouldn't find an ice cream truck with sexual implications in the title if a hetero man was running it. This isn't an argument about whether or not mostly gays or heteros molest, it is an argument of advertising sex to children. It is implied in the name of the truck and the clientele it serves. The hetero equivalent would be something like “Dothenasty Icecream” sold to children.
I'm sorry but a product meant to go in the mouth and be licked sold by “BigGay”…to children….lol…you folks just don't get your own blindness to the subliminal advertising aspect of your “movement” do you? I remember an article not so long ago here about gay pride parades in Israel I think and how the author was laughing about how parents didn't want to come to it and “have to explain” it to their kids. The implication was that the author WANTED parents to have to explain homosexuality [graphically I would assume since there is no other way]..like that was the whole idea of the parade was to force parents to have to expose their children to the idea of gay deviant sexuality.
I know I know. I'm getting carried away right? Frued would think differently. There are a thousand ways to expose children to sexuality both hetero and homo. I think Mr. BigGay ice cream man has found a unique way. It's like a gay pride parade on the streets of NYNY every day of the week, pitched directly to children.
In fact that picture is so hilariously suggestive in its implications that it's a keeper. It pretty much sums up everything I have against gay fetishes seeking public promotion/recognition as “normal”. It is the acme of my entire beef with it. Look at the shape of the cone, the gay guy with the smug “whatcha gonna do about it now?” look on his face. The deleriously exuberant liberal black gal advertising for it with a “come and get it” wide-open “welcome” posture, complete with phallic rainbow cone on her T-shirt. All for kids to lick remember! ..lol…
Yep, this article and picture are keepers for sure…
Jeezus H. Christ..
I always had issues with “Mister Softee.” How can you say that's not sexual? For pete's sake, it suggests erectile dysfunction! And those heterosexual ice cream salesmen? They are out there playing MUSIC to attract children. Does this big gay ice cream salesman play music?
And Sil, please learn to spell “Freud.”
Being gay isn't just about sex, just like heterosexuality isn't just about sex. Do you cease to be straight when you're not having sex? Is anyone's relationship with their opposite-sex spouse solely based upon sex?
Reducing sexual orientation — gay, straight, bi — to just the physical act reduces men and women, husbands and wives, to orifices.
He's gay. He's also a bassoonist and an ice cream man. Would having a “Big Farmer Joe's Ice Cream Co.” truck be marketing the mating of steers, namely, bestiality, to children? Or, more to the point, “Straight Married Guy's Ice Cream” be wholly inappropriate because, clearly, anybody married is having sex, and therefore this is terrible to think of a straight married guy marketing something children put in their mouths to children?
Let me simplify this for you guys. The word “gay” implies sex. The word presented in the title of a children's product is advertising sex to children. Add to that a phallic-shaped object to be licked by children and you've got yourself a real blunder…
Sorry, OK “Freud”.
So does the word “married.” We should ban that from anything concerning children, as well.
Paraphrasing one of my friends at a park, “Don't you think that selling cornsticks to kids should be outlawed? It's entirely too suggestive. Not to mention all the other foods they sell here.”
Mind you, he said this sarcastically, as just about anything can be taken any which way the observer chooses. Shall we discuss Barbies, or Teletubbies, or what about fountain pens? Water slide parks, hot dogs, summer squash?
Of course not. Let it go, Silhouette. There are other, more important issues that children face in their lives that we can change, right now. The name of an ice cream truck really isn't one of them.
No, there aren't more important issues. Last time I checked I haven't seen a corn dog vendor called “Big Gay Corndogs”..lol… If there was at least you could say their clientele isn't largely children. A lot of adults go for the corn dogs too but they also are a kids obsession..
But ice cream? lol… No, I'm not going to let this one slide by unnoticed. Look at you defending it too. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt..
I agree Jade. There should be no ice cream trucks that say “Get Married Ice Cream” to children. Totally not. Inappropriate. And the difference is that I can see that and you can't.
OMG, it's “attack Sponge Bob, Tinky Winky, and gay penguins” all over again.
Will it ever stop?
Sil: Nice edit of your comment above, btw.
The truck doesn't say “Get Gay Ice Cream.” If it did, I might see your point. It's “Big Gay Ice Cream.” It's a neutral statement of a piece of the man's makeup, similar to “Big Bassoonist Ice Cream” or “Big Married Guy Ice Cream.” A bassoon is a pretty phallic instrument. I think anyone who plays those has clearly got children in their cross-hairs. Clearly.
We aren't getting anywhere, and I quickly see that this will devolve into personal attack. (Gay fetishes? You can see this and I can't? Classy.) A few points, then I'll go.
1. If sexual orientation is clearly all about sex (or, if the use of orientation words is used to invoke sex, always), not only does that put you in square opposition to the scientific community and the modern understanding of people and how they operate, but it also is a view of the world and of people that strikes me as quite sad and limiting. Me, I prefer to see people as complex beings, whose orientation is but a part of their lives. Bring on the “Big Straight Ice Cream Truck.”
2. Gays recruit children. Uh, no. People who want children are pedophiles. Gays, the best science can tell, anyway, come from a complex interaction of biology and environment. (Yes, I understand there is no gay gene. No, it doesn't completely wipe biology out of the equation.) So, gays come from, well, straights. If you are concerned about pedophiles selling ice cream, there are plenty of places where you can go to find sex offenders, where they live, and picket for them not to have jobs in the city anywhere near children. You'll probably find a lot of support for that activity, as well.
3. Plugged into the nuances of child molestation? Really? As mentioned above, most molesters are straight. And if we were to ban everything that some see as phallic from children, god, we need to stop sending children on field trips to Washington D.C., where that extremely phallic memorial to that dead president stands. Whoever built that clearly has designs on children. After all, who is the main clientele of those field trips to the nation's capital?
Sil, it's been fun. Despite the disrespect you show segments of the population, I wish you peace and a good weekend.
After reading the comments in this thread I don't think the majority of commenters here would buy from any Ice Cream Truck.
Snowcones don't like ice cream.
The gay-fetish movement is its own worst enemy..lol… Shot itself right in the foot on this one.
Go get-em SIL….
Just the idea of seeing an Ice Cream truck with advertisement that makes me think of sex is enough to put me off. It's absolutely sick. What was that gay pick-up color code? That’s the rainbow right? Various gay or lesbian color codes by wearing a certain color hanky in the left or right hip pocket? Violence red, light blue catcher, dark blue pitcher, gold is golden shower, giver left pocket, taker right pocket, feces fetish brown, on and on and on…..
They expect this sick crap to be made normal? The emancipation of sexual diversity?
Darn it, there we go again, feeding the trolls.
Father_Time, you seem to have an awful lot of knowledge of this “hanky code” you reference. What are we to think of this?
Gegenschattenbild–
Yes of course, knowledge is a bad thing concerning the gay rights issues. What was I thinking? Poor little harmless gay people, oh so oppressed by the big bad normal people. Is that better there Gegenschass?
Gegen — You see, the problem with people like Sil and FT is that they think a lot more about gay sex and what's going on behind closed doors than the rest of us. Most of the world thinks a lot about sex, but these panty-sniffers are off the charts. They can't see the word “gay” without thinking about people doing it in the bum. They can't see an ice cream cone without thinking about the fallus. They can't see a rainbow with out thinking about naughty color-coded gay signals. Gold means peeing! Brown means pooping! Gay people are yukky! He's a basoonist — he likes the big, long double-reeded instruments (*wink*wink*). Most of us can see a couple — straight or gay — and not immediately jump in our minds to what it looks like when they do the nasty. These people, not so. I think they should both go get some much-needed therapy to cure their obsessions with gay sex.
Ahem – straight people practice BDSM and use that hanky color code also.
Then there's this presumably hetero ice cream company. Note the motto: “Mr. Ding-A-Ling is a lot more than just your local Ice Cream Man.”
http://www.mrdingaling.net/index.htm