Rainbows everywhere 🌈

Rainbow for this rainbow for that. Rainbow baby (Ive only ever read that on here) rainbow bridge (again on here),

For me its a weather phenomenon. Nothing else.

Some one mentioned Black History Month elsewhere in the thread. There are two different (that I now of, could be more) BHM with the US and U.K. doing them at different times.
I have a Peloton (I know) and they do curated rides for Pride, both BHM (the British instructors doing theirs at a different time) APIHM, Memorial Day, Fathers Day, both Mothers Day, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, Christmas and others. Consideration is also given to who leads these classes as well.

Plus to add they are in different months in different countries

It's not really astonishing. Pride month isn't even in all Western countries and logos in many stay same.
While I get what people mean, we can't really push pride month on every country. That wouldn't get me to respect them at all. It would make it worse.
But financing support would get a lot of respect from me and others

I agree with you both. Seems to be some thinly veiled homophobia on this thread too, how we’ve stolen the rainbow and we shove our gayness in everyone’s faces for (god forbid) a whole month 🙄. So what if there’s rainbows everywhere all June? If posters are so affected by it, maybe they should have a long hard look at themselves and think why?

I agree. When I see the pride rainbow it makes me feel a bit safer.

I don't think straight people understand how much homophobia we still face.

Absolutely in support of companies posting rainbows if it is genuine. But it’s mostly not. Just a way to show they look like they care when they don’t/haven’t taken the time at all to research.

It becomes meaningless when it's ubiquitous and semi-compulsory.

Sticking a rainbow on their company logo costs them very little, and they can pretend to be progressive without having to do any hard work like actually dealing with discrimination in the workplace.

Any of these companies changing their middle east logos, to show this support?

How are all these companies actually supporting you as a lesbian woman?

June is pride month, as a lesbian woman it actually makes me smile a bit more to see the support from these companies. We are in 2023 and still myself and many others face homophobic abuse on a regular basis 🙁

This 'trans woman', didn't know he was trans whilst he was alive. Talk about distorting history. Crikey. He wasn't even there!

The ONLY reason these companies rainbow wash everything is to get Stonewall Points for their annual assessment. They aren't allies whatever that means.

Surely being trans is something quite different

And I'd say completely unrelated.

I’d have more respect for companies who displayed the rainbow on their logo in countries where LGBT people are criminalised & oppressed like Saudi Arabia or Uganda but astonishingly they don’t do it there.

their are puddles less shallow than faux corporate concern for the rights of LGBT people

Surely being trans is something quite different.

The fact you say sexual preferences really tells anyone anything needed to know about you bigotry

I really don't see how that's bigoted. LGB is about sexual preferences, surely?
A lesbian prefers a woman as a sexual partner.
A gay man prefers a man etc.
A bi person is attracted, sexually, to both men and women.

Isn't that the only reason someone would declare themselves to be L, G, or B?

The first pride (the stonewall uprising) was initiated in part by a black trans woman. Along with many other trans activists - https://www.jcfs.org/response/blog/history-pride-part2

You’re entitled to your views but do not try to distort history to fit your narrative. Trans people have been part of pride from the beginning.

I hate that a picture of rainbow by a child or whatever has become a socially loaded image. Why couldn't they just make up a logo?

That's my grouse. They took a lovely childhood and happiness symbol and made it political (or trans, or whatever) I feel robbed.

I’m extremely cynical about it.

Last year Primark had a massive window display of rainbow tat they were hawking for Pride and that just summed it up for me. Virtue signalling doesn’t even cover it. It’s jumping on issues to make money without any real thought about what it means other than ‘let’s make ourselves look like inclusive good guys and people will buy more shite from us’.

My workplace has put a massive Trans Heroes display up for Pride for the third year running. I feel sorry for the LGB folk to be honest!

So because you don't agree I'm a bigot? I don't see any hatred in my comment. I have gay friends and relatives some of who share my views on pride. It doesn't need to be a full month shoved in everyone's faces

You’re right. Most of these organisations will say not a word for IWD and even less for black history month

The fact you say sexual preferences really tells anyone anything needed to know about you bigotry

Absolutely this

When is dementia month I wonder?

Or stroke survivor month?

Or cerebral palsy month?