ColonizationToday’s Prides are “spitting in the faces of the brave men and women who marched for our rights at a time when Pride marches still had value, purpose and relevance.

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[–]JulienMayfair 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a tad overwritten, but I do actually remember Gay Pride Marches when they were grassroots. I marched in one in 1990. There was no corporate support or fancy floats. No thumping music and boys gyrating in jockstraps. It was a group of relatively ordinary people marching in the street, counter-protested by people from local churches. The only institutional support we had was being allowed to finish the march on a local university campus, where we were reasonably safe from harassment just for being gay in public.

In the state where this happened, we still had sodomy laws. LGB soldiers were still being tracked down and kicked out of the military. We had hardly any position representation in any kind of mainstream media.

We had real and serious civil rights problems.

[–]Movellon[S] 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

These days Pride marches appear to be more about having a massive piss up with some of the most cringeworthy and shame inducing people I have ever seen. They seem to be more attended by straight people bringing their children to view what has become a modern day freak show of people in full gimp gear, pup fetishists, furries, and ‘queers’ whose only oppression seems to be their neon green hair and pierced tongues, and that they’re going to have to wait until they are 25 before they can access the trust fund. Perhaps when they do their first purchase might be a bar of soap and a couple of bottles of Domestos?

More on link.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What is wrong with people bring their kids to that shit?

[–]davids877Straight Male Man 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't forget all the corporate sponsorships so they can appear 'woke'.

[–]Criticallacitirc 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I just found out SF, LA & NYC have banned uniformed police officers from walking in the pride parades. I don't love cops, but damn. Police culture is very toxic and for those men & women coming out at work is much braver than what most of us have to endure at our jobs. Now they have no support from their own community, it's pretty disgusting.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I loved the writing, the best point in my opinion:

These groups have been dining out on our LGB Pride events of old and are drunk on the vanity that comes from their position as self-appointed leaders of our community. They have unilaterally decided to cast out the “Bad Gays” and banish them for the crime of being proudly homosexual, and along with them the “Bad Bis” for their crime of not believing there are more than two sexes. But theirs is a pride that dines on vanity, and in doing so it sups on contempt.

That really is the issue, in a nutshell. These groups have usurped a community and are hijacking its symbols. Pride is barely connected to gay people anymore.

We have two pride parades where I live, the big one hosted by a University that has wall to wall teenagers and more flags than the UN... and the tiny stroll of middle-aged gay men and friends that walks down the old gay bar strip. Which is the real parade?