Does anybody else dislike Pride?

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Does anybody else dislike Pride?

We have one in our town for the second year running, and it's just really off.

Now before I get the "don't be homophobic comments" I am very much live and let live.

It's just that it can be very adult in the middle of the day.

Clearly libraries don't run around displaying adults in bondage outfits

Not quite bondage I'll grant you, but here's Rainbow dildo butt monkey, courtesy of Redbridge Libraries and their reading for children event in 2021.

Don't look out the window? Or go out in advance! It's not really a difficult problem is it, for half hour or so.

Pride tends to take place on a Saturday, making being at work more unlikely for many.

hahaha! half an hour.

Central London is all day and night and again for the Trans community one a few days later.

No they don't.

Nothing like trying to get them early, eh...?

So women and children who are uncomfortable with this should avoid going into towns during Pride? Seriously? Have you heard yourself? I’m assuming you also think the OP should take the day off work, if she happens to be based near the event, and stay in her kitchen, baking and cleaning or something?

how about you tell the pervy men you so admire, who hijacked what was once a really great cause, to stay at home with their bondage gear instead?

Your posts are very odd on a parenting website? Repeatedly framing parents (mainly women) as "entitled" because we're speaking about safeguarding children.
My guess is that you're not a parent and likely have never birthed a baby? That shouldn't matter but when you're so passionately criticising women for talking about safeguarding children "a few irate mums"! as you said, it does suggest a lack of insight and empathy into the responsibilities that come with being a mother / parent.

I have a good friend who’s gay who hates it. His usual answer when asked is “what am I supposed to be proud about, who I’m fucking?”. He acknowledges that historically it had a purpose but dislikes what it’s become. He also hates being told (as he sees it) that because he’s gay he likes glitter, and drag queens, and cheesy pop.

Are you for real.

You know central London goes on for days. Different Pride Marches for LGBTQ and then another full day for the TQ+

How on earth do you think these people get to the Pride event? They don't travel in chinos and a nice sweater then change into their kink outfit shortly before the march sets off. Nor do they have a teetotal day and drive home afterwards in the car they parked next to the event field. They go there on public transport in the middle of the day from different parts of the town or city, wearing attire that would normally see them arrested.

And if you seriously think that it's the responsibility of others to police how supposed adults dress and behave in public, you're not just naive, you're complicit. Funding is being pulled from these events not because of homophobia but because local authorities are taking their safeguarding role seriously and not spaffing public money on a look-at-me glitter party for people who think men can become women or blue hair makes them special. Not to mention as others have already said, the notable numbers of Pride organisers who have been convicted of paedophilia. An earlier poster called you a massive red flag and I'm beginning to agree.

Sorry, that could have been MUCH clearer. Saying "the whole point" was a poor choice of words, and I wasn't referring specifically to anything relating to bondage or children, let alone both.

I meant that part of the point of Pride events is to take people a bit out of their comfort zones, make them feel a bit uncomfortable if you want to put it that way, and raise awareness/start conversations about lifestyles and relationships outside the mainstream.

On that basis the fact that one aspect of the event makes me feel uncomfortable isn't a good argument against it.

We will get our children out of town for pride, the point is we shouldn't have to.

Well because you're saying that a paedophile group attended (and it seems were not unwelcome at) a Pride event, on a thread where people are discussing protecting children. If what you are saying is true you should share the event so that people can protect their own children from the event.

I don't like it either Op. I don't care what sexuality you are - stop ramming it down my throat (no pun intended). It's just another thing that we have to tolerate, even when it's clearly inappropriate, under the banner of "inclusion". Men, as usual, will push things far too far, and we end up with our kids seeing shit they shouldn't be exposed to.

Ahh, but inclusion, right? So, in the spirit of inclusion, where are the parades for Straight Day? What is the logo for heterosexuality? Oh wait, there isn't one. So inclusion only works one way? Shocker.

It's all very "LOOK AT MEEEEEE, I'M SO DIFFERENT", meanwhile, straight people just get on with life without all the Faff.

And some people can’t due to work and where they live.

So the Central London one has floats that carry people all day, all night? Wow, that must be quite a few hundreds of thousands of people and a few thousand floats. I wonder where they all come from?

Most of the pride events go from one part to another, passing by and then a big party in a field or a large area into the night. London isn't a representative of the whole country.

London: The Pride in London parade takes place on Saturday, 4 July 2026. The procession begins at 12:00 PM and moves from Hyde Park Corner along Piccadilly, through Piccadilly Circus, down Haymarket, past Trafalgar Square, and finishes on Whitehall

True.

Why were the police not involved?!

Complaining that "straight people just get on with life without all the Faff" completely misses the point, doesn't it? Without all the Faff, gay people would still be imprisoned, sacked from their jobs, chemically castrated and so forth.

Probably too busy handcuffing dying white men.

You clearly have never seen Pride Days (plural) in central London.

You have some nerve asking me if I’ve ever been to one.

Won't somebody please think of the children!!!

I didnt say a paedophile group attended I said there was a stall flying that particular flag. They had loads of flags hanging up for sale.

Well, perhaps if you'd actually read my posts rather than make stuff up that I didn't write or misunderstood then perhaps you'd not have such an issue.

Hmm - not what I've heard.

My gay friends (and some straight) have felt intimidated by the whole thing. There IS a kind of bullying attitude about it - that their view of being gay is the only right one.

I'm a fairly conventional, quiet introvert and my gay friends are similar. They cringe at the image of being gay which Pride has come to represent. It definitely has changed and although it doesn't affect me directly, I completely get how they feel. Some gay men wear tweed jackets and play organs in church! Some are quiet classical musicians - in fact, a hell of a lot are.

The Sexual Carnival type of event might be fine in itself, as long as it isn't trying to represent gay people as a whole. I think LGBTQ people actually need a different kind of PR now - one which foregrounds their real diversity - as individuals who live ordinary lives like the rest of us, not as freakish exhibitionists.

It's like the old question: what does a gay person look like? They look like you and me, but I don't know anyone who looks like the Pride crowd.