My local pride parade lost all meaning for me when it was moved from September to June and stopped being held in the "gayborhood" and subsequently became less connected to local history. Even before this, however, it was obvious this wasn't meant for me when I went with a friend who invited a bunch of other girls who wouldn't talk to me after finding out I was "actually...y'know...like that" (their words).

The fact that stores started dropping their Pride Collections on May 1st is really gross and annoying and transparent, and I'm someone who usually doesn't mind tacky rainbow things. Target has pride themed dog poo bags, and they aren't even striped and I don't know why that's bothering me so much! It's also gotten harder to find stuff that doesn't include the extra stripes or that godawful trans triangle :/ The only criticism I see of pink capitalism revolves around not supporting evil corporations and buying "merch" (🤢) from a small business owned by a trans woman selling shit from Aliexpress with stolen art on it.

I see perverts gyrating in leather bondage suits. I see deviants crawling on their hands and knees dressed like dogs.

Not as horrible, but I've had to stop my kid from catching condoms that were thrown into the crowd because he thought they were candy.

This year I might be (ever so slightly) more vocal in my opposition to pride.

Hell yeah! Fuck the stupid aLpHaBeT mAfIa

Edit: I also hate that the pink and orange "lesbian flag" is now mainstream. Tumblr should not leak into real life like wtf