Is Pride Month overkill these days?

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

It's been out of control for a while now. Funnily enough, I think that there is a very interesting undercurrent to it. They never once considered the optics of the behavior at pride outside of the context of "Uber accepting culturally relativistic society" pipe dream. I take comfort in how this has fucked them (har har har) outside of the Western world. Particularly in Russia. Had they not had sex crazed faggots openly grinding each other in minimal amounts of BDSM gear in front of any camera available, I wonder what the LGBT movement in Russia would have looked like. As it is, instead, Russia hates these people and is one of a few Eastern countries that do largely because of the ridiculous footage of the aforementioned behaviors defining "LGBT" in these societies. They are slaughtering faggots wholesale, especially in the Caucasus. Further, can you blame them when their society's only encounter with the idea of accepting this kind of thing is footage of shit like Desmond is Amazing? Or footage that belongs on Pornhub? Or word of mouth stories like Dylan Hafertepen? I don't think you really can. Sure there is an Orthodox Church component to this, but you don't exactly have to formulate their argument for them.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Yes, their ultimate objective should be becoming mainstream, no more, no less. These "Pride Weeks/Months" glorify homosexuality, basically shoving it down the throats of everyone else. Have seen pictures of some of these "Pride Parades", and agree they are counterproductive. In my opinion, the best "Pride Parade" would be just gay people walking down the street, in regular street clothes, just like anyone else, to prove that gay people are just like anyone else. And then no more "Pride Weeks/Months" would be needed. Actually, am not a fan of ANY "Pride Week". I prefer unity as a people.

That's basically what a lot of the early pride rallies were in the 1970's and 1980's and still were in more rural or traditionally conservative areas in the 1990's and 2000's.

The fetish stuff was first used at closed 18+ events (like the infamous Folsom Street Fair) as a middle finger to the Religious Right busy bodies in the more liberal areas like NYC or the West Coast due to looser morality laws in those areas, and while it spread to the more public events in those areas, it was mostly confined to the left-wing havens until the late 2000's at the earliest.

Everywhere else, the LGBT pride events were still about stressing the normality of LGBT folks and you didn't see borderline nudity or openly blatant fetishism displayed in public.

Heck, in the early pride rallies in San Francisco (the city that is synonymous with the LGBT movement) a lot of gay teachers and civil servants had to wear masks or head scarves to hide their identity so they wouldn't lose their jobs or be subject to actual violence from angry parents.

Even in left-leaning gay strongholds like San Francisco or Manhattan back then, at most you'd see a small handful of drag queens or bull dykes in flannel and work boots, or on a rare day a couple of guys in the more modest leather man outfits (the kind of costumes that could pass as normal biker wear and not obvious BDSM gear) and the rest were people in more normal clothing.

Most of the really outrageous and sexually charged displays in pride events during the 1970's, 1980's, and very early 1990's were very rare and confined to NYC, San Francisco, and maybe Los Angeles, and these events were usually held in October so they could be passed off as Halloween street parties and avoid any unwanted attention from police or moral busybodies.

 

[sadbird]

What these days feel like they're meant to do is not make any kind of awareness, but it's a drill into public mind since they are well enough aware of it to practically screaming it in their ears- but also its a trojan horse of unsavory shit. Like when light came of the stephoknee wolscht case, it wasn't about a man who pretty much abandoned his own family for selfish twisted desires, it was "THIS PERSON IS TRANS AND MUST BE PROTECTED".
For as much talk about trans rights I hear nothing of trans responsibilities lmao

It's also lead to a pedophilia overlap, which is only natural when you take adult sexual identity crisis and involve children. If I didn't know any better i'd almost say the endgame is a clever bait and switch (and if I was especially retarded I definitely would say that has already happened with desmond)

 

[Foxxo]

I would say no, as it's a free country, but they tend to insert themselves into other things already.

 

[queue-anon]

Pride Parade culture is bad for Gay Rights. If you don't believe it's a net loss, go to a pride parade once in your life and just watch.
If the idea is to integrate, making normies associate your group with degenerate insanity has no positive benefits outside of deliberately offending the host culture for the sake of some twisted sociopolitical psyop. It's like rubbing a dog's face in shit and I understand the left enjoys doing that but here it's both counterproductive and undignified.

All the normie gays and lesbians I know are done with Pride. Like maybe they'll hold a brunch on that morning, but they don't bother with the events.

The degenerate part of it is really overrepresented. It used to be that, alongside the Budweiser float with buff men in banana hammocks, there would also be the lesbian moms and the parents of gays/lesbians and the newlyweds, so basically lots of family friendly components that speak to most of the L and G over the age of 30. The L and G have also largely been pushed out for the T and other deviant/special snowflake straight people, and Pride now has to embrace every other social justice issue even, or especially, when those issues clash with LGB rights, such as the tension between the LGB that appreciate that Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where you won't be imprisoned, tortured, or killed for being gay and pro-Palestinian activists. There's also that ugly as fuck Pride flag that has brown and black stripes to make it more "inclusive" even though the rainbow flag was adopted in part to reflect the inherent racial diversity among the LGB. Fortunately it seems like I don't see that flag around anymore.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

If you need an entire month to celebrate the fact that you like to take and give dicks in the ass or if you have Bruce Jenner disease (TM), then your parade float should be directed to the inside of a kiln.

First pride parades

Modern Pride Parades

Spoiler

Then, there's Folsom Leather Pride, which is a mostly gay event.

 

[ChickenGoesBawk]

My main issue is the fact parents bring their children to these events and there would be at least one person naked or wearing something innapropriate. Or even doing something inappropriate.

Like.. geez can you people not?

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Arguments about Gay Pride parades often remind me of this Counter Signal Memes For Fashy Goys cartoon

 

[Ambidextype]

I think the problem with the left in general is that it doesn't seem to have end goal in mind when they are supposed to draw the line and end that movement. Instead they keep doubling down to the extreme where they throw the nuance and subtlety out the window and want to have that minority group representation dominated in every single media and keep demanding impossible utopian society. It is hilariously ironic at the same time they are the ones cheerleading for multicultural society welcoming the people with backwards culture with no tolerance for LGBT group. Watching them doubling down that path is like witnessing an inevitable trainwreck in very slow motion.

 

[Some JERK]

It's not overkill, it's just irrelevant and people in general care about it about as much as they care about 'National Hamburger Month' or whatever. I didn't even know it was this month. You could've told me it was in September and I wouldn't know any better.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

You know, when I was younger, no one cared about who you were after we got to know you. Due to the area I grew up in, there weren't a lot of minorities around, but that didn't automatically made us klankids. Might be a bit wary (which is a biologically normal), but once we knew you were cool, no one saw the asian/black/indian/mexican kid as asian/black/indian/mexican: "This is Jamal - he likes Nirvana, makes the meanest pitches and has a link cable for us to fight and trade Pokemon!"

Sure, some kids may have thrown slurs at them or tried to ostracize them, but those weren't normal kids. The normal kids stayed away from Johnny who made fun of Jamal's stutter because he also liked to hurt animals and steal.
'Treat others how you want to be treated,' was always, always, always beaten into our heads when we were kids, so when someone said, "Heard you made fun of Jamal's stutter," during lunch break, we knew how Johnny was about to get treated. Same applied for gays. A bit weird, but that wasn't for us to care too much about - if Jamal liked Michael, then whatever; we didn't care about straight couples either.

I have no fucking idea when people started to care about what race you were or who you liked, but it sure as hell surprised me; equality is when you see someone as an equal, no differences to be seen or cared about so long as it wasn't hurting anyone, right?

Apparently not, I would learn later...

I get the inkling that the LGBT community or at least the individuals that represent them would agree with this tweet.
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I gather from this tweet that they expect others to be an ally but also be subservient which is horrendous IMO.

I have several friends and acquaintances who are gay and they curl their lip when they hear the term 'Pride Month'. "I don't put myself into groups, especially the LGBT ones," I remember a friend say when someone asked if they were doing anything for Pride Month one year.
"They think they know what's best for us? They're a fucking cult."

Why can't everyone just stop being a fucking cunt?

You're not special.

No one is special and it should stay that way, but that's not how it is right now and it's fucking assbackward reeetarded.

Noonecaresifyou'redifferentsostopbeinganastyfaggotcunttoeveryonewhodoesn'tcare.

 

[PT 522]

Yes.
Everyone already accepts gays and the name "pride month" inflames tensions by making it sound like nobody else can be happy with who they are (I don't agree or disagree with either side, but it is there).

 

[Marissa Moira]

They're a relic of the 1970's that have no real use or purpose in current year.

Eventually like Kwanzaa, Department Stores, or The Circus they shall be relegated to obscurity.

 

[Carnivorous Plant]

the concept of pride month itself isn't overkill because LGBT people (mainly the T tbh) still face disproportionate amounts of violence compared to the general population. but the execution of pride month is the most grating thing on the fucking planet. the only part of pride that i actually look forward to is the inevitable tone deaf pandering done by giant corporations. so far i've seen rainbow colored doritos and i'm eagerly waiting for more.

 

[Ruin]

I saw bobs cox and vagene at my last pride. Waving flags is fine but O don't think kids or anyone else needs to see your crotch.

Pride has mostly morphed into an event for fetishists and exhibitionists.

 

[Jackson]

In a perfect world, it wouldn't be the case that Pride Month would be a problem. However, what you see today is a problem. I think to myself some times whether or not it's worth it to open a Pandora's box like "gay rights" since the logic that the LGBT used to gain those "rights" are now being applied to pedophiles and furries who want to stick their privates up a cat's ass.

Spoiler: And of course, you're going to have good ol' autists think that fictional characters are going to support their life decisions

 

[IV 445]

The pushback from the right against LGBT has really surprised me in recent years.

Granted, these are ALT right, not your father’s Christian-right “Judge not lest ye be judged” crowd who say this with a sigh as though they don’t really mean it, but can’t say anything else.

It’s surprised me so much I can’t think of a concrete explanation for it. I mean, hatred of minorities is so passé these days, it’s not even edgy anymore. I believe it may have to do with a lot of alt-right lead-thinkers being themselves victims of sexual abuse.

(Contrary to the overriding narrative, most “homophobes“ are closer to “odium” than a phobia. Odium is the Greek root word for hatred, disgust and intolerance. So if you were to combine the two, homodium or homodes might be the result, even tho it sounds like commode.)

The other overarching narrative is that homodes are secretly homosexual themselves which is one of the greatest “no u” hoists in political history. You disagree with my position which means you secretly agree with it, in other words. And it worked marvelously in shutting up their opposition. Remember: it’s not about changing people’s minds. Limiting the power of your opposition is just as good.

 

[Hail Nyarlathotep]

I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't so backwards a lot of the times. Why act like stereotypically flamboyant sexual degenerates, when that's the last thing they want people to percieve them as ?

It just confuses me.

 

[Clintonberg]

tbh I just want to suck dick without any political movements attached to it

 

[Jan_Hus]

Yeah. It's not that weird that some dudes enjoy sodomy and venereal diseases anymore. In fact the Democrats have proven that all sorts of dudes love penis.

You seem to be oddly concerned with where another man sticks his penis. That's quite gay