Is Pride really just turning in to one big kink fest?

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I mean, who wouldn't want to see this on a day out? 😡

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Anywhere else, any other time, this bloke would be arrested on a charge of public indecency. Why not there or then? It's almost as if these fucking weirdo's have a free pass or something...

Yes it is.

Everyone knows that Pride is for pups and adult babies.

And look at the audience, laughing along as if a naked middle aged man walking along the middle of the road infront of children is a perfectly normal and acceptable thing. They're just enablers.

I'm reminded of that sketch Eddie Izzard did back in the days when he was very funny, about can there being, in his words, a difference between transvestites and fucking weirdo transvestites with criminal records, and not confusing one with the other.

I'm in the same mind about LGB related issues. I'm one of the increasing number of LGB grown ups who stopped going anywhere near Pride years ago, no longer feel any pride in Pride but acute embarrassment, and are doing our best not to look at the flags and fuss and attempts to make LGB a whole lot of things that many do not relate to, agree with or want anything to do with having spent decades trying to convince the public that being LGB did not equate with deviant with no boundaries or capacity for normal social appropriacy.

This is not helpful. Any more than trying to insist that 'normal kink' involves total lack of care or regard for involving non consenting others, and that's fine and appropriate if LGB. No, that would be fucking weirdo inappropriate LGB and kink, not LGB or kink.

I am really not a prude but this is so not acceptable. I can foresee ten years from now we’ll have people having a similar ‘hiding in plain sight’ conversation about things like this as we have had over Jimmy Saville. It’s obviously not okay.

I am obviously referring to a naked man, jumping up and down in a rabbit mask in front on children in a parade- NOT the concept of pride which I think has been subverted from its original aims by some.

This.

Funny how that would be a breach of the peace, at the very least, in any other circumstances, but in a "pride" march, it's hunkydory.

I've heard Pride declared a great day for families and then find this object on display. Is this really the gay idea of innocent fun?

Though to be honest there's this weird thing for naked cycling here and the police seem not to care - it doesn't actually bother me, its not like it's vaguely sexual! Just odd anyone (and I've seen women too but mostly men) want to ride naked, just being practical, that's a lot of extra sunscreen!

The kink stuff annoys me though, if it was a normal parade and women were dressed like that there would be an outcry. Sex stuff should remain out of the eyes if children, straight or gay

Yep. It's become an excuse to parade drag, fetishes and plain old pervy exhibitionist men. Very little to do with LGB people.

Sex offender, plain and simple. Shame on the rainbow-striped police for allowing this.

I find it revolting. Have done for a long time.
It's the blatant disregard for children I find bizarre. It also includes those vile "story time" with a drag queen things that have been happening recently. It's opening children up to a whole sexual sphere that there is absolutely no need for them to know about.
Yes, if this were to happen anywhere else but in a "pride" march it would considered weird at best and vulgar and inappropriate at worst.
What I want to know is - what's the "pride" in? I'm not talking about homosexuality at all.
People who take their kids to these "events" are baffling.

There's some odd stuff happening. I was looking at Skiptons, first ever pride events. So far we've had a make and take , which seems to have attracted a handful of under fives..... drawing symbols they can't possibly understand (like the trans squiggle). There's then a get ready for pride where people over 12 can make new friends to go to the pride event with...... which I guess could be good but they'd need to be careful of the ages, safeguarding etc. The event itself sounds like a nice summer fete. I wonder where the council got the funding from?

High Wycombes event features four drag Queens, it's a totally woman free line up, by the looks of it. Pride! Yey!

Why do blokes always think the world wants to see their tiny flaccid penis? This is akin to flashing, no one fucking asked to see that. Especially not little kids.

The LGB people should be absolutely irate with this perversion of what Pride should be about.
It's not about gays and lesbians and bisexual people being proud anymore, it's just about exposing kids and non consenting adults to sexual fetishes, the more shocking, the better it seems.

I'm so over it. I received an email from our diversity and inclusion team to celebrate pride month today. Had a glossary of terms attached definining such gems as drag queen and cisgender. Another attachment was a document of flags. It informed me that the pink in the trans flag represents girls, the blue for boys and the white for everyone in between. Why exactly did I need this email in my busy day?! Why the fuck would I care? Sorry. Needed to get that off my chest.

Pride is an embarrassment now. The LGB community is being forgotten about, it's all about the T and Q and every other letter of the alphabet.

This display of nudity in public is not ok.....any random male prancing down the street like this would be arrested. Why does he get away with it.

I have two close family members who are gay men. Both used to love Pride, got involved every year. They wouldn't touch it with a bargepole now.

There will probably be a netflix special about it.

Yep.

Stopped attending about 5 years ago when it became obvious that it was being used as a vehicle for fetishists getting a kick out wearing gimp masks and a thong in public.

This is what I find so strange and backwards looking. I was under the impression that back in the day people who were homosexual or lesbian were campaigning to be treated like heterosexual people - you know the boring everyday kind who keep their private sexual preferences to themselves. It makes me think that all those people must now be so upset that this is presenting them as being fetishists or exhibitionists rather than your average Joe. I don't have a lot of gay friends but do have a gay man in my extended family who is married with kids and is very much your average Joe. It does him no favours to have Pride looking like it does these days.