Happy Pride Month *Mod Warning In Post #62*

A month is too long, but enjoy it while it's still a thing!

Not sure I can do the whole month, might dip in the middle a bit.

All very positive though.

My friend and her partner celebrated Pride Month by getting matching tattoos of each other’s left boob tattooed on themselves , Happy Pride Month girls.

I don't think that other boardsies who have 'crawled out of the woodwork' are the problem. These posters are probably just bored people with Pride-fatigue.

It seems to me there is an unstated contradiction in that the same principle of tolerance which liberates homosexuality is used to justify bringing in outsiders en masse from some of least tolerant (of homosexuals) places in the world. We declare everyone the same don't think to ask about cultural compatibility. We are totally indiscriminate.

I don't think that simply intensifying the 'celebration' of LGBT and waving bigger and more rainbow flags at people even begins to address this underlying cultural mismatch.

Pride month is now just another bunch of corporate bullshit, that is what it means for most people.

They put up the rainbow flags on twitter pages, all over offices, have events etc except in the countries where it is most needed where they decide to not say anything about Pride Month.

If it actually had any real meaning companies would be emphasizing Pride Month more in countries where gay people are actively being discriminated against to a massive degree but of course they don't.

Having a whole month of it sort of reduces it's effectiveness anyway as people have a degree of fatigue about it and just ignore it becasue it goes on for so long now.

A month is a bit of a weird and unnecessary elongated time grab for it let’s be honest. Don’t get that.

I think they could get far more out of it by having pride week…. Whereby it’s a shorter more truncated and impactful shindig.

that said if you are into it, enjoy the festivities..

I don't know who any actual gay people who 'celebrate' the month in any way beyond pride parade day int heir city. It's very much an american import and creation and regarding public opinion potentially reversing because the month is greedy and excessive in length and it's 'too much in their face' , the opposite is occurring consistently with each year. The number of americans supporting gay marriage rose from 67% in 2019 to 73% in 2023 based on recent gallup polls.

On a secondary note Americans also receive many migrants from many south american nations which are not particularly open minded (but perhaps less authoritarian on the matter than our neighbours in the near east) and still societal opinion continues to trend supportive. Integration and assimilation do seem to influence conservative views on homosexuality and in Europe the quality of integration is overall better which will help even more. It's not an insurmountable obstacle.