I don't think it speaks to its inclusive nature. Sometimes I feel if I say anything or pass comment on the fact that it is actually an exclusive month dedicated to a minority, I am deemed a bigot which I am not. Discuss....🤔
I don’t think anyone needs nail their colours to the mast here ACD. It’s a pretty simple idea -
Plenty of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender are employed by corporates, and with increasing visibility comes increased sponsorship, which means increased visibility, and a reduction in the stigma that’s attached to being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
I have no doubt there are plenty of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender who would share your opinions of corporate involvement and sponsorship too, they want to go back to a time when being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender was greatly stigmatised because they got off on the idea that it was socially verboten, their communities were smaller and much more of a closed shop and they were suspicious of outsiders.
The whole idea of Pride is celebrating not having to feel ashamed and hidden away from view of “civilised” society dominated by, well, heterosexual, cisgender white males 😬
I've no problem with Pride, a month seems excessive though. For some reason it's been really low key this year, usually there's endless adverts jumping on the pride bandwagon for everything from bread to deodorant. I'd no idea it even was Pride month.
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.
Saw a parade on the continent, like a Dublin Paddy's Day with S&M gear.
Kind degenerated into messy-ish drinking later on. Huge crowds which I avoided as I'm not really into massive crowds of any sort. No doubt drugs and cruising involved, whatever floats your boat.
Went to Brighton pride once as I used to live there. Some nice vibes but loud, drinking and masses of people aren't my thing. Can see why people go mad for it though.
Going to a parade is definitely engaging!
That's a different issue, I can't really comment as I've never been to a pride parade.
As a heterosexual, cisgendered white male I don't want to be opining about how the LGBT community or individuals should feel about things. I can imagine some of them see the likes of massive, tax dodging corporates using it as a marketing tool as being quite cynical. The tax many of them shirk could be used to fund solutions and services for LGBT people but instead get funneled into offshore tax havens. Not much pride in that IMO.
To reiterate, just my opinion as a non-LGBT person.
Actually this isn't quite true.
Having attended many gay pride marches, and will do again in a couple of weeks, there is a certain percentage of participants who are dressed in a sexually provocative manner.
I've never really understood why many people think this is just people walking in the street or is 100% family friendly. It isn't!
It's Pride month. I don't see what the issue is. In the UK, we just had to have a nauseating month of buildup to celebrating our unelected head of state, one of the wealthiest people in the world and mother of at least one child molester getting older.
I’m only after copping you’re talking about the Queen, like, THE Queen, not… queens 😬
I encourage corporates to get involved, there’s no question that the movement could do with the sponsorship, same as every other political movement.
Other than seeing a bunch of rainbows everywhere it's pretty easy to not engage if you're not interested
I can see why people think you’re a bigot.
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.
Heh 😏
Very well said. Some LGB people (not all) remind me of Vegans - how do you know if they're Vegan? They'll fcuking tell you. I don't really want to know the sexual orientation of anyone to be honest and find overt public displays of affection from any sexual orientation distasteful. Keep it for the bedroom folks! I would lean towards the don't ask don't tell ethos if it wasn't made out to be such a subversive way of stigmatising LGB people.
Secondly, the sham that is corporates falling over themselves to have their logos and flags flying when on other regional channels of the same corporation there is no mention whatsoever. Globalists when it suits.
Finally, LGBT awareness to primary school aged kids is not on. It should be the reserve of parents firstly and then some discussion in secondary level school.
Doesn't bother me too much, I try avoid all that PR rubbish.
I make sure to try and avoid the pride march or whatever it's called. I've seen too many lads in assless chaps and ballgags that I don't want the risk of seeing them again.
From things you see online, seems it's a massive pulling event.
Some people dedicate June to Pride, and some don't, its not a compulsory requirement that we all observe it. I've no issue with it as an event but as I am not part of the community it represents I don't get involved in it. Easy enough to avoid it all if its not your thing.
Never heard of it, but what have you been excluded from?
I imagine it's parties, events and parades. Did someone say you can't go?
Discuss what? Your feelings?
I've no problem with the idea of pride. Corporations appropriating it for marketing reasons, I'm not fond of but the actual concept itself I support. If you don't, it's easy enough to ignore.
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.
*Cue businesses scrambling to replace Ukrainian flags with rainbow flags*
Didn't even know it was Pride Month.
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