you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good point. But pride parades have become obscene and they use up roads and streets. The public cannot avoid them. Why can't gay centres and gay cafes hold museum like events where the general public can come in and see the history of gay rights during pride week?

Yeah, I would also like to see more meaningful displays. They should be focusing on things like Stonewall and how the police used to raid gay clubs, and how gays were not allowed to get married. These things were clearly unjust, and afaik gay people are now protected from this kind of discrimination by the legal system. I do not see how sexualizing this issue is helpful to their cause.

On the other hand, the ACLU once protected the right of the KKK to have a demonstration, and this did not result in the spread of KKK ideology. If you want to protect speech, I think we need to protect speech we disagree with too, as sooner or later, someone will undoubtedly disagree with yours. I think the problem is not that these kind of displays are allowed to exist, but that the general public thinks it is 'woke' to never show disapproval of anything any minority group says or does. I.E. "I can't support gay rights unless I cheer on dildo parades and drag queen stripper shows for toddlers"