Rainbow colours everywhere

What now? Any examples you could share?

No, not ridiculous at all.

Always. I never fail to be shocked when people can't do it, they get it wrong, or have to recite a mnemonic.

Spectrum themes were a big thing in the 80s i remeber seeing them all over the place as a little kid, everyone loves a rainbow.

Well I've seen them for VE day, Christmas, Eid, Hannukah, royal weddings. All sorts, just encouraging you to buy something. Maybe Women's History Month needs to be more proactive?

I've said this on another thread so forgive me if you've read it. I worked in police admin and was dealing with a member of the public. He told me he'd love to join the police but couldn't as he was a white man. I said it was odd as I'd just been dealing with our new allocation of probationary officers, the majority were white men. He refused to believe me, not sure why I'd lie. Sometimes people find a certain narrative convenient

Hysterical in its ridiculousness. Got any evidence for such a ludicrous accusation?

Late to this but

What I think so many people object to (including many LGB people) is not pride month but what it has turned in to.

Sorry what events are these?

I will be hanging it so it’s visible from the street. Still ok, as it’s my house!

According to this men are discriminated from jobs and events in favour of women - same principle ! Away with all this support! Minorities need support - it is incredibly hard to constantly be belittled, excluded, harassed and bullied. Count yourself lucky you haven’t experienced it

We stop celebrating being ourselves when we are actually accepted. in the moment, being lgbt+ is not accepted, just barely tolerated.
Kids still get routinely bullied for being lgbt+
The rainbow lets us know we are (relatively) safe, we are seen. It is incredibly important.
Heterosexuality is everywhere - we are not.

Absolute rubbish and not how my gay son who was subjected to homophobic bullying mercilessly throughout school sees it. His mental health was destroyed as a result. Pride makes helps him reduce the shame he feels for being gay. It’s hugely beneficial. I commute through a town and a city. I’ve not seen one pride flag but oodles of England and Union Jack flags hung from lamp posts and shops. They’ve been there for months, complete stretches of the road. That’s shoving something down our throats!

One doesn't tend to see huge banners in Tesco for Women's History Month etc.

Why celebrate it at all? Nothing wrong with being gay but why stuff it down our throats?

It's just so tiresome. Treating it as "special" ultimately contributes to "othering" homosexuality rather than normalising it.

This thread has influenced me to buy some pride flag bunting for our house

I acknowledged that the rainbows that PP referred to in their jokey comment were not Pride ones.

I then made a point (that I stand by) that if the rainbows were Pride ones, I think they shouldn't be painted on children's faces until they are old enough to understand what is meant.

That's not a view specific to Pride colours. I would very happily wear a Pride flag myself (not a Progress one though). I support many other causes. I wouldn't paint a child in the colours of any of those causes until the child understood what was meant and could meaningfully choose to wear or not.

(No, not even a poppy, before you ask).

I do understand there are some good arguments in the other direction, e.g. that's how you build shared culture and values, but on balance I come down against.

Yes, I get that, but you kind of contradicted yourself - you say painting rainbows on kids isn't political, but kids shouldn't have any political stuff painted on them until they're old enough.
Who's doing that, then, in the context of this thread?
Bring on the rainbows.

Read my first sentence. Hell, read all of my post if you like.

Painting rainbows on a child's face at a face isn't a political statement. It's a fecking rainbow!
You realise that rainbows aren't always to do with Pride, right?
Just ask Zippy, George or Bungle.
Or look up at the sky when it's next been raining and sunny at the same time.
Children love rainbows and adults like me too
It doesn't have to mean anything deeper than that, it doesn't mean they're being groomed by "the gays" or anything! 😬

Mmm. Is that really logical? If so many object to animal cruelty, does that demonstrate exactly why it's still needed?

I’m a straight parent with a child at nursery. I can think of at least a few reasons to have pride flags up at a nursery:

• Learn about a cultural event (Pride), just as the learn about Christmas, Diwali, Halloween etc.
• Welcoming atmosphere for families with lgbt parents / relatives
• Prompt for discussions about some families being different from ones mummy and one daddy; the importance of treating everyone with respect
• Hopefully if any children feel later they might be gay/queer, reduces the likelihood of feeling shame if it has been celebrated/accepted during their childhood
• Looks lovely and does no one any harm!

There is another discussion to be had about the commercialisation of pride and pink washing, I grant you

I think the fact that so many people object to
Pride month demonstrates exactly why it’s still needed.