Happy Pride Month *Mod Warning In Post #62*

You're going to have to accept that not all gay people have the same opinion on Pride.

I'm gay, and I know of very few gay people who agree with its current manifestation (i.e. duration of length, the corporate hypocrisy, the feeling of pressuring society into accepting it in their faces, non-stop, with flags here, there, and everywhere).

Sometimes I ask myself, "if I were straight, how would I react to this?".

Honestly, it would come across to me as a bit too much. I think most decent people in the country support gay rights and equality and a live and let live approach. But the point of becoming equal to everyone else was that we would become as boring as everyone else - we fade into the population as equals. What's happened since marriage equality is the exact opposite - an alarming amplification of the noise. The self-absorbed narcissists have taken over, who think their sexual identity is the be all and end all, and everyone must know about it to show how special they are in society. And that means you end up alienating many of those people who supported marriage equality and gay rights.

It stops becoming, "We want to be equal and here's why" to then becoming a very loud, and often passive aggressive, "You must accept us". It's almost a complete reversal in power shift relations, and not a good one at that. It's a borderline threat, where people otherwise supportive of gay rights may be accused of homophobia for expressing legitimate opinions on Pride that many gay people, myself included, happen to hold.

Yes - we should have Pride.

But the way things are currently playing out, it will only have a net negative effect going forward.

who agree with its current manifestation (i.e. duration of length, ......... the feeling of pressuring society into accepting it in their faces, non-stop, with flags here, there, and everywhere).

I'm going to reuse this quote in the weeks leading up to the 12th of July

Flegs...............

What bugs me about that comment on social media, "Where is the straight Pride parade?", is that the people who say it think they're the smartest person in the room, as if it was never said before.

It's the kind of reason I stopped reading the comments section on social media.

I think JupiterKid's previous post nicely sums up the matter of straight pride.

And that's fair enough. Though I never said or implied anyone has to particpate in Pride if they did not want to. No argument there.

I always believed the aim of the movement was that everyone was treated equally and no one should be excluded or secluded because of their sexual orientation.

I think it would be a great shame if the broader movement did splinter apart into separate groups like that, and I would be sad to see that happen.

Ok. Thanks for answering.