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.

How lucky you are to be in a position to like or dislike it.

So who are they aiming the Drag Queen Story Time sessions at, then?

See the X link above showing eight convicted sex offenders and paedophiles with roles in Pride organisation.

Oh please. “Don’t look when it’s happening in public”.

How about don’t flaunt your fetish gear and your cock in a public place? How about take the gag out your mouth and stop going around in arseless chaps.

We should shame it if it’s sexual fetish gear and kids are around. Straight or gay, keep it away from kids it’s wrong.

It's a narcissistic show of fetishism, which should be something private.

Why does your 6 and 2 trump everyone else?
Be a parent. Don't like it? Don't go.

People these days think the world owes them everything, esp if they have children. No, it doesn't.

It’s lost its way as it used to be about celebrating LGB before the fetish folk took it over. 😢

The protection of children should be for everybody.

Don't let your children see. It really is that simple. Parent instead of being entitled.
It's one day a year.

I agree, OP, and I think a lot of posters are missing your point.

Pride should be about love, inclusion, acceptance.

But (as per usual) some men who attend use it as an outlet for their perversions. They enjoy shocking and upsetting people with their giant phalluses and bondage gear. For them, it's not about celebrating being able to love who they love, its just a giant session of foreplay. They ruin it for the many and I don't blame you for wanting to avoid it.

I am all for LGBT pride but would not take my kids to a pride event.

There’s a cuckoo in the nest of Pride. This seems well above background rates.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5533496-another-pride-founder-is-a-child-sex-offender?reply=152482501&utm_campaign=reply&utm_medium=share

The first two photos just look like very sad attention seeking, the third one is just odd, no doubt someone somewhere thinks it"s great that a child can experience the fact that some people want to live in a Frankie Goes to Hollywood video but she isn"t going to understand any of it and the reality is that most of the time these blokes are probably dressed for the office so I don"t really understand what is being presented here?

Yet they will because we now have to go to the extreme in order to be inclusive.

There is no limit to it. Same with a lot of movements now.

And it is men, it's not women from what I can see - it's men!

The 'minor attracted person' flag does exist, but it's not used at Pride. I suspect the poster whose children told her thats what it was misunderstood the colours- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MAPs_Pride_Flag.svg

There is a long running smear campaign that tries to suggest that flag is part of Pride, which it isn't. It's just another homophobic attempt to link homosexuality to pedophila, and believing and spreading the rumour just contributes to that www.rumorguard.org/post/no-gay-pride-flags-do-not-include-colors-representing-people-attracted-to-children

I’m not the one ranting, sweetie.

It's always men.

Or men pretending to be women, so yeah you are right - always men!

Another rage bait post yawn.

Don't like it, don't look and don't attend.

I started going to London pride in the early 90s when groups like SM gays and SM dykes were prominent marching members, I actually marched behind SM gays one year and wondered what their tan lines would look like from the chaps, thongs and harnesses. I believe that was the year that the Spanner case was ongoing and protesting that was one of the major themes. The bdsm community was always prominent at pride and the protest marches because of the link between being non straight and alternative sexualities.

I wouldn’t let my kids anywhere near adults openly displaying a fetish. I would judge any parent who would. I reiterate, straight or gay keep your sexual desires far away from kids.

On the flip side you’re turning a lot of parents off Pride and instead of it being an event that children could learn from, it’s just a display of utter depravity which a lot of us will stay away from. So good luck with that.

A dildo is a TYPE OF TOY???? THAT is what you would tell your kids. Fucking hell.

Why am I even bothering. I feel like half these posters have come over to cause havoc from some dank dungeon of a Reddit sub. Probably replete with pics of themselves poured into French maid or Japanese schoolgirls uniforms. Yuk yuk yuk.

Gay men showing off, again. Tiresome.
Aren't we past caring who people love/have sex with? Why do gays feel the need to advertise/celebrate a sexual orientation?

Many people disagree with you

I would be happier if the LGBetc crowd got together and decided to just have one celebration, fix a date for it, stick to that date have an absolute terrific time doing whatever it is and then just get on with their lives, like the rest of the world does. Pride days, pride month, gay history month, gay film festivals, gay art week, drag queen story hour, ……… it is blumming overkill.

Leave some time - and some public money- for the people who don’t get celebrated, don’t get parades, don’t get noticed, don’t get acknowledged in every tv programme, film, Netflix series or magazine. Let’s hear it for teenage carers, wheelchair users, single parents, the deaf community, people with Brain cancer, firefighters, farmers, nurses, guide dog puppy fosterers, charity shop volunteers, the Red Cross etc etc etc