Is Pride exempt from public indecency rules?

[Libre2]

DD (aged 14) went into London today with a friend she is staying with. I can only assume friend’s parents didn’t realise it was pride weekend and we don’t live anywhere near London so had no idea.

Aside from the fact that it was a complete ballache getting back out because tube stations were closed, DD said she was shocked at some of the things she saw in terms of arses on display with men just wearing “thongs”.

How is it OK to have such sexualised stuff going on in view of young kids?

Why did Mumsnet do away with the laugh emoji?

So because I find an article written by a lesbian writer interesting, I am a closet homophobe? I love the reasoning.

Beach clothes at the beach. Fine. Beach clothes in the city mid afternoon, nNot fine.

I saw a vulva in my local restaurant last weekend. While she was in the queue at the bar. Her shorts were so short I saw the beginnings of labia.

It isn't just pride. It's everywhere.

Blimey, why have you assumed my age quite so specifically? It was less than 20 years ago, and it really hasn't changed that much!

We do! Thankfully they will grow up to not be total bloody prudes! Oh dear someone's bum cheek, I fear I may faint!

Been out on any Saturday night in many towns in Essex?. ?

Oh honey...read the news, look at the stats.

Barely and the thong is a thong

It's the same really

But it's not "the mens" so we can't attack them the same

My city does Eid in the park to celebrate. London does Eid on the square. Luton gives it an entire weekend.

Dammit! I meant to quote the OP! Damn Rose. Sorry, about to read that article now.

Are people there walking around in fetish gear too?

Thanks for that over-familiar term of endearment, I was just slightly sick in my mouth.

Me too I live in London between age 12 and 22

I’m sure most LGB people want to distance themselves from paedophiles. It’s not so clear cut with the TQ+

Sophie LaBelle’s paedophiliac images and ‘talks’ have been promoted by and for trans groups. Women objecting to public facilities being used for his talks were removed.

For anyone that doesn’t know, he identifies as a woman and lifts people’s baby pictures from the internet and reproduces them in sexualised cartoon form for his nappy fetish ‘community’. This is why we should never let our children’s pics be publicly available.

The discredited Children’s Charity Mermaids had a board member who wrote papers promoting paedophilia. Trans adviser to the Green Party ‘Amy’ Challenor employed his dad as campaign manager while he faced charges for kidnapping and raping an 11 yr old girl while holding her hostage in his loft. Mermaids also posted pictures of a young boy dressed in a sexualised outfit in his bedroom on their website. The founder of Surrey Pride was recently convicted of raping an 11yr old boy. A Drag Queen associated with a Pride organisation in Wales (from memory) was convicted of child sex offences (reporting quickly suppressed by the BBC fur *reasons). I could go on for a while with more examples. Too many to be a coincidence.

Why do you care what other people do?!?!

I tell you exactly how. I emerged from Piccadilly Circus tube station and there it was.

I get where you're coming from. But, at a beach or a pool you are going there with the expectation that people will be in "underwear" like garments. That's what bikini and swim shorts kind of are. But at a so called public "family" event in the street: you wouldn't perhaps expect to see naked arses. I think context is everything. We're constantly shouted at by white straight women that gay males are about so much more than anal sex and promiscuity. because oh no, there's never any truth in stereotypes. It's all about love . And it's all just liked BBC dramas where they're just like a straight couple. So, naked arses at an "acceptance/'love is love ' festival is really helping the cause isn't it ? but now the straight white women are saying it's ok ?

Afraid I don't know everyones fetish so couldn't tell you. The point was that other minorities didn't get celebrated though not about if someone was wearing a thong or not to a religious festival. The women at Carnival barely cover their nipples and definitely don't cover their arse I'd bet good money that's a fair few peoples fetish.

Vaisaki (sp?) closes more roads and for longer than Pride does here

We also have massive events for Armed Forces Day (that includes a parade), Eid, Windrush Day, Black History Month... in fact it's almost every other day the Mayor is photographed posing with the flag of the day

It is unfortunately the world we live in these days. Instead of lived experiences, good conversations it is not just about slapping your sexual preferences & fetishes into peoples faces &making sure everyone knows what they are.

Walk the other way if it offends you sooo much.

There are small events in London for eid - very welcoming, GREAT food 🥰

And there are events for football teams winning things, royal events, events celebrating soldiers (rightly). In Chinatown on Chinese new year, its lovely. Glastonbury- music and paganism(?)

Its just that pride and notting hill carnival are big events which upset people

No way, these people should be in jail, if they’re not already.

Because when they do it in public, we can see them, with our eyes.

Many people live in London between those very ages....crazy.