Pride doesn’t represent me

[Vegansausageroll]

Just been watching Joe Lycett’s big pride party.
It was all sexualised smut. It’s ‘furries’ , kink, drag, sex and innuendos galore. This isn’t all what pride is about! It’s supposed to be about our sexuality and our rights and not being ashamed of who we are. But there is no representation for young people like I was! I want people to be themselves and express themselves but it all just seems so extreme now!

I’m a middle aged gay woman. I like books and countryside walks!

I am very worried about equal rights and the way they are, once again, under threat.
I have nothing in common with the people that now dominate ‘pride’. The last woman’s group I went to has long been shut down, as have the lesbian groups I used to attend back in the day. I’m worried gay youth are being sent a message that their sexuality must be linked to a certain type of ‘lifestyle’ when many of us just want to live a regular life the same as our straight friends - the only difference is the sex of our partners 🤷‍♀️.

It’s like assuming that all straight couples are interested in role play & bondage… No, some of us are incredibly ordinary (thankfully!!) 🤣

It is a show by Joe Lycett. It is like watching a show hosted by Susie Bright and complaining she talks about sex a lot.
Show me one show about any event on TV that "represents" everyone in any community?
It does not exist.
And Pride has always been full of excitable newly out women and men who are mainly young.
The taking over of lesbian and gay groups by bisexual couples is annoying though. And especially their insistence they are the most oppressed ever.

In terms of being ordinary, before Queer as Folk every representation on TV and most films of gay or lesbian people was just ordinary people and generally pretty desexualised representations. The most you generally saw was them holding hands and staring into each other eyes.
Queer as Folk was a reaction against that showing a section of the gay community that is very promiscuous and into different sexual practices.
There are now various representations on TV from Eastenders ordinary folk portrayal to the kinky promiscuous portrayal. That is as it should be.