Is Pride exempt from public indecency rules?

By 'sexual fetish' you mean things like wearing skimpy clothes? Kissing? Sexy dancing? Wearing leather?

Do you find it hard to cope when you see women doing this, or is it just the sight of men that upsets you?

Thank you! 🙏🏻 this is exactly my thought

It is kind of incredible that there is an extremely popular parenting website where it’s now apparently fine to be ‘fine with gay people as long as I don’t have to see them’

Can you explain the difference?

You have repeatedly said that we should just ‘look away’ or avoid the area or not take our kids to an event generally advertised as family friendly.

I hate it all. It's sexual exhibitionism and very inappropriate on the street.

Didn't mean to quote btw. Fat fingers

Oi... some of us boring, Pride-avoiding lesbian mummies with normal-coloured hair wear square glasses, too! 😂 (Although mine are more rectangular, now I think about it.)

You seem gleeful about the argument from PP that pride has always been about fetishes.

Was that in the middle of Oxford street too, in the middle of the day? Wow, that’s kind of Beyoncé to perform for free.

Exactly, thank you. This is why I keep asking if any of these people actually know anything about Pride. It's like they've never actually even looked up what Pride means, where it came from, why it's important, what concepts are included, the history of the culture... and then they're surprised?!

The number of people defending men displaying sexual fetishes in public on Mumsnet is incredible at the moment.

This is a very good post.

It's obvious the people that don't actually have close friends or family that are gay. They've all moved on and are trying to live whilst cringing at the 'pride' thing. It's only kinky straight male lesbian and fetishist that are left being shouty MC shout face at pride. (Oh and the blue haired ones with poor mental health and square glasses ) Oh and of course the straight women shouting behind them and spitting at other straight people.

Then I'm sure you won't mind explaining to me exactly HOW I missed the point, hmmm?

for lady arses, you should’ve gone to Beyoncé. Jaysus the arses. Arses for bloody days

No one suggested that.

To remind you of the actual convo - You said arses aren't inherently sexual! I said gay men might disagree. You said straight men like them too.

So I'm pretty sure we've reached the conclusion your first statement was incorrect. It's so nice when people can talk things through amicably and end up agreeing.

It’s the reactions from you two that are scary. Honestly it’s not ok.

Why are you defending this??

What the actual....so gay people are cowards now as well as everything else they've been accused of on this thread.?!? I despair

where did she say gay?

Wearing a thong under your pants isn't.

Wearing a thong in the street to celebrate your sexual orientation is sexualised. That's the point.

Unrepeatable.

She's not disgusting. She's a realist. This is a very apt comparison.

The pearl clutching runs strong in this one. 🙄Best keep the kids at home in isolation with no WiFi, TV or social media until they’re adults. And avoid those buses too. 😂

But you are the one telling everyone that, if we don't want to see people dressed in fetish gear, we just shouldn't look. So is kink an acceptable part of Pride or not?

Most gay people I know are no longer going to Pride, if they ever did. It just doesn't have anything to do with their lives, they find a lot of it offensive and reductive, and they don't like the assumptions that they find about their politics. They don't think their sexuality is among the more significant elements of their lives and personalities.

I think that is really common, and Pride has kind of been left to the people for whom their sex life is not just an element of their private life, but in a lot of cases, it's their hobby, and most of their social life, and it dictates their politics.

The idea that anyone who isn't keen on publicly celebrating adult's sex lives in public is homophobic only works if the second group is really what it means to be homosexual. But it isn't, so it's not.

No I'm not saying that.

Ultimately groups of people will all stick together, protect their own. It goes back very far in history. But these straight women so desperate to virtue signal will be left very high and dry when they're expecting their pat on the back and their thanks.

They weren't having anal in the street 🤣

You sound homophobic and prudishbOP