We're off to Pride tomorrow...

[lucysmam]

The preparation my oldest is putting into this reminds me of me when I was younger & getting ready to go out (I wasn't so young though).

There's glitter, stick on false nails & stressing over which outfit to wear .

Enjoy the furries. Pride isn’t what it used to be.

Bit of a waste of time nowadays I think

Don't forget the lead so you can walk a pup

Ours was a few weeks ago, great day despite the rain. Hope the weather improves for you!

Don't expect the lesbians to be allowed to
Join.

Good luck with that, OP. Pride is grim these days. A total men's fetish parade. They've totally thrown lesbians (and all women) under the bus in favour of short-sighted wokeness at best and genuine misogyny at worst.

Thought it was all over in June

You miserable bastards! ENJOY OP X

Have fun! Where are you?

It was Pride in Surrey last weekend. Our first Pride! I was a volunteer so working there all weekend. I volunteered as soon as I heard about it because I was so excited that boring old Woking was getting its own Pride!

It was a fantastic day with not too much rain and the turnout was amazing. And, yes, LOADS of groups of teenagers looking utterly fabulous.

I was litter picking for three hours on Sunday afterwards. And not only was there a lot less litter than you'd expect from that many people but I was amused that apart of the inevitable fag butts, most of the litter was also rather bright and glittery. Evidently a lot of people lost brightly coloured false nails and feathers in the course of the day. 😊

Oh and we had Michael Rice, Eurovision loser, as our headline stage act. Beat that!

Why does glitter and false nails have to be part of it? Isn’t that a bit of an, er, stereotype?

What do you mean by miserable bastards @Newbie1981

@Myfoolishboatisleaning I thought it was rather clear. The people who can't just say have a nice time and have to go into one about how crap it is and the politics of it. Yawn

But it’s not untrue is it?

I dunno. I went to Pride marches for years. Way before I had kids. Now, I have a daughter who is a lesbian and it has been so upsetting for her, the shit surrounding TERFs and the mistreatment of lesbians and women as a whole that I can't in good faith support it. It makes me (and many women) incredibly sad and angry. Yes. I guess I'm a TERF.

But it’s an inherently political event isn’t it newbie? That’s it’s origin. If you don’t like the politics of it, makes sense not to go.
Personally I don’t get this glitter and boas shit. For the gay people I know, there’s no overlap between being gay and drag.

Like the men in dog suits playing with small children while visibly aroused?

And the fact thay lesbians aren't welcome qs its now all about the men

I’m not sure any event which effectively excludes women who are sane sex attracted can claim to be diverse! Talk about tosh peddling! Gosh how silly.

What tosh avocados?

Sane sex attracted. That’s a great Freudian slip.
I imagine the meaning is clear.

Yes what a typo. You of course meant sane gender. Sex is obsolete :o

boring old Woking

Sorry.

Why does glitter make Woking more interesting? Pretty low level entertainment surely

don't believe the tosh peddled by TERFs.

Yeah, that’s a brilliant response Avocados. When you can’t come up with a decent response to the concerns of women, just call them Terfs. That’ll shut them up. Well done you!