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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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?