Pride Month

Trust me when I say this, but there are a lot of LGBT people out there - of which I am one - who are bored of Pride and find it total overkill.

Pride was about the need to secure equality, and that we achieved. The vast, vast, vast majority of people support LGBT people.

But what's happening is that equal treatment is being replaced with special treatment. Ordinary, decent people who otherwise support LGBT rights are now bombarded with a very forceful message that they must support it more than they already do. If I were straight, I'd be pretty damn annoyed that this is how things have regressed.

Yes, some homophobes exist. But that will always be the case. Discrimination is not eradicable. Nor is racism or any other form of prejudice.

But that doesn't mean we need to go overkill and blast our flags in people's faces.

I think ordinary LGBT supporting people are getting a bit tired of this.

The whole point about equality is that you fade into the normal, boring population. Everyone is just as equal and boring as everyone else. That's what equality means in reality. But what we're seeing with the LGBT movement is the exact opposite: an absolute amplification of the noise and almost the desire to feel more special than the rest of the population.

I really think this needs to stop, or it will turn otherwise supporting people of the LGBT community against it.

You cannot ever force someone to agree with a view or position, you must achieve it by consensus.

one day where the traffic in town is utterly fcuked.

otherwise easy to get by without it bothering me

good luck to em, if they want a month on those terms they can have it and welcome

the way parents park outside schools causes havoc twice a day, ten months of the year. lets start there.

No.

Corporate sponsorship and all that is too easy if you're targeting Western countries.

But they daren't do it where it matters - in the Middle East, for example, where their corporate logos are not festooned with rainbow flags.

The hypocrisy stinks.

This does nothing to advance LGBT rights; absolutely nothing.

I've been to 11 Pride parades/events over the years, mostly on continental Europe rather than Ireland/UK. They're all engaging, although it's easy enough to see how the focus has shifted away from promoting homosexuality, and having fun/freedom, to being far more political in nature.

Honestly, they were a lot of fun when I was in my 20s/early 30s.. but the in-your-face aspect of LGBTQ gets tiresome after a while. I got tired of the hyper aggressive attitudes, and while people seem to think that the LGBTQ community is all wonderful smiling people, there's always been a dark undercurrent to the community too, which comes out in some of the events and speeches.

I've stopped going to the events. I don't think they're really representative of LGBTQ as it relates to normal people, and is more a place for the aggressive LGBTQ members or the "advocates/activists" of the various causes.

Still.. I'd highly recommend going to some abroad. It's an experience worth having.

Am I more likely to purchase a Mercedes because I've seen them adorn their logo with Pride colours?

Nope. Are you? It wouldn't even factor in my decision.

Are they virtue signallers that have no actual moral interest in LGBT rights?

Yes.