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.

When you’ve had a gay child who has been horrifically bullied throughout school for being gay day in and day out with daily continuous derogatory homophobic language on top you might understand the importance of Pride and why many young gay teenagers just AREN’T. Homosexual teenagers don’t need to be encouraged to value their sexuality because they aren’t subjected to homophobia which is widespread and increasing.

Take a picture this year when you don't see it!

No you said "Don't like it, don't go.
You don't just stumble across pride events. They have huge bloody floats with people on them, full of colour, noise and really loud music. To be close enough to see someone with a dildo means that you've made a decision to stay and stay close to watch.

That statement it blatantly untrue. It doesn’t matter that it was London that proved you wrong.

You snipped back about Londoners and centre of the universe crap.

I don’t care where you have lived, it’s not about you. It's about the fact that SOME people can’t avoid it.

You are very into your own experiences and can’t seem to see that blanket statements such as your post above do not look at things from ALL points of view.

SOME people can avoid it and SOME people can’t.
In light of this fact, men parading around in fetish gear and woman facing is not something SOME people/children should be forced to view.

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/the-progress-pride-flag-adds-representation-for-transgender-and-people-of-color-idUSL1N37S2DT/

Am sorry you lack the ability to avoid Pride in London.

I’ll take that as an admission that you made a ridiculously untrue statement because I guess you can’t admit it after 5 posts pointing it out.

What? The last paragraph makes no sense...

Your original post says "Does anybody else dislike Pride?"

Now you are saying Pride events are fine?

It's almost like you wrote your first post as a deliberate attempt to be inflammatory and offensive......

I imagine the majority of posters don't particularly want to see a guy in bondage gear at 2pm, unless he's their partner and it's in their bedroom and that's what they're in to.....

But objecting to a few specific outfits at Pride is totally different to "disliking Pride".

Admission of what?

Sorry you lack the ability to avoid Pride in London when many Londoners have the ability to.
Yes, let's cancel Pride because you cannot work out how to avoid it. 😅

What's the progress pride flag got to do with it?

It's because Pride has become that. Leather Joy Boys with grown men on leashes, and their arse hanging out of chaps.

Yep should have read heterosexual . Can’t edit it now so stand by for multiple posts saying what you just did.

Admission that what you wrote was blatantly untrue.

You can’t can you?

Your passive aggressive sorry’s are really showing you up in a bad way

You can ask for it to be deleted, and you can repost it.

This is it, for anyone looking out for these things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MAPs_Pride_Flag.svg

Just as an aside, threads on here today include two questioning pride events, with this one including a "demonic" for interesting measure, one about Sikh religious exemptions (obviously a follow on from recent tragic and wholly wrong events) and now one about specifically Roma and traveller children being taken out of school. I smell a pattern. And it's making me veeeeery uneasy....

I always thought that the kink/fetish communities were really big on informed consent? Involving other people in your kink even just as an onlooker was considered a big no no.

The only exception to this was generally the exhibitionists who get their rocks off by shocking onlookers. However this was at a time when marching in leather chaps and little else would have generally been considered shocking enough. The poor exhibitionists have their work cut out if even the human pups are now considered acceptable. 😂

Or there might be truth to what people are telling you.

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.

Is it? I thought the point of Pride was to make people realise that gay people are normal happy people and not some kind of weird threat. Mainstream people having a good time. Hard to convey that in a gimp mask.

Trouble is, now that we've normalised homosexual relationships and (hopefully) they don't make most people uncomfortable at all, if your goal is to "make people uncomfortable" you haven't got much left. What you've got left is lifestyles and relationships that make most people uncomfortable for good reasons.

So I think you're getting Pride confused with some kind of Carnival of Fools - an upside down day of craziness and broken boundaries and then we all forget it and go back to normal.

Please define what you mean by truth?

My gay brother in law hates it. He hates the making a fuss of being different when they have spent years to be treated the same.

Well then he can avoid it. It’s hugely beneficial to many.

He does.

To insert myself into your conversation -

The point of Pride events (at least the ones with long histories) was always that they were protests against the unfair mistreatment of LGBT people. The two aren't mutually exclusive, but this is different from 'make people realise that gay people are normal happy people and not some kind of weird threat.'

Not only that, what's the point now of the extravagant parades? They've won now, they're equal in everything, and probably even favoured in some cases. It's just a brash, over the top, garish soiree of bad taste and indulgence now.