In Boston, as in other cities, Pride has fractured into several camps. One is made up of those who are happy to see Pride become a blander, more corporate, mass participation institution within America’s ever-expanding civic calendar. The second major bloc is made up of those who seek radicalism for its own sake, and who are desperate to rekindle what they see as the revolutionary origins of Pride. And so if gay rights is no longer radical, they insist, the LGBT movement must pour its energy and resources into causes that offer the possibility of militant politics—such as radical gender movements, the erasure of biological sex, anti-capitalism, demonization of Israel, extreme forms of “anti-racism,” pacifism, and police abolition. Even gays and lesbians, now seen as the “privileged” elite of the LGBT population, are the subject of suspicion, and even animosity.

As a member of the "privileged" elite, I've known for awhile there's a target on my ass. The alphabet soup people don't want my heteronormative lifestyle, and they kinda don't want me to have it either.

Fuck them, I don't want the freak show that LGBTQ+ (where the "+" probably includes MAPs) has become.

The corporate option may be bland but it least it leaves me alone.