LGB ErasureIs anyone else absolutely dreading Pride Month already?

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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But honest question for people who were around Pride events 20 years ago -- what were they really like?

Hmm. They had seemed pretty benign and celebratory and playful and LGB where I am. It was just routine.

I don't tend to say much on social media about it during that month because I don't see my sexuality as an interesting thing to discuss ad nauseam, just like my shoe size isn't interesting either. Perhaps I will make a simple statement about being bisexual and nothing else. That will perturb all the right people in the right ways and they can't do a damned thing about it either. But as I was writing this I realized that if we just stay quiet while the co-opters make all the noise, that's not gonna help.

I'll have to think about this. Because the woke police (my fellow progressives who have been imbibing delusion juice—hence why I now shy away from the term until they clean themselves up) will be very reluctant to say anything against me during pride month that they might otherwise.

Perhaps we have an opportunity here rather than something to dread. I don't have that crystal ball, so you are on your own, but now that you've brought it up, I'm thinking about it.