This year's pride month

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Just wondering if anyone thinks it might be different this year?

Last year it felt like you couldn't leave the house in June without encountering rainbow "Love is Love" posters, Tesco sold drag garden gnomes, and bacon lettuce tomato sandwiches turned into LGBT sandwiches in my local shop.

This year some local pride events have reported inadequate funding, and Stonewall have said they are in financial difficulties. But the Supreme Court ruling has also prompted lots of protests, so maybe people will feel motivated to get involved?

I dunno, I think I'm with James Esses in this one, I think it'll be no holds barred TQ+ aggression like the moob protests.

x.com/JamesEsses/status/1926548608570065406

Well let’s hope so. One last hurrah, where everyone’s eyes are opened into what a fetish fest it has become and their support drops even further.

I feel that fewer companies/organisations have joined in with pride month over the last few years and I think that will probably continue.

Yeah me too and it will be even more about trans than usual. I mean I know that’s hard seeing as it’s already 90% about the T but it’ll be 99% about trans/literal violence/toilet protests

I think there was less pride last year than the year previous. Certainly less corporate tat everywhere. There has been a scaling back of funding locally, local council are no longer stonewall diversity championship etc. I suspect there will be more tra’s than ever before but I think a decent proportion of LGB community feel excluded or are unwelcome so feel like it’s rather lost it’s way.

That said the Scottish government have managed to secure this years funding for stonewall by dodging usual process so the gender woo is still going strong for some.

I thought there was less last year than before.

Presumably everyone who wants rainbow merch already has everything they need?

For businesses it's a limited market.

Will they be kicking lesbian women out of Pride marches again this year I wonder.

My DD went to a Pride thing in Portsmouth on Saturday to support her TIM friend and it was billed as a Trans rights demonstration against the Supreme Court ruling and I just felt really angry about it because I thought this isn’t pro Trans rights it’s anti women’s rights and that’s just really shitty. Like disabled people don’t protest against able bodied people’s rights. Black people don’t protest against the rights white people have (because we have the same rights). They protest to raise awareness about ways that society can accommodate them better without looking to remove rights from others. I think they will double down on how unfair it is that they’ve ’had their rights removed’ and try to whip up support for usurping women’s spaces.

Had the misfortune to bump into one last year. It doesn’t represent me at all as a gay woman - it was a funny mixture of straight families with kids, people selling lewd T-shirts with dicks on them and men in skirts. I sincerely hope these events either stop being straight pride or they stop altogether. I’d be happy if the funding completely goes and people get bored of it.

It's interesting that some posters noticed less impact last year.

I noticed more, but I had been assigned to attend some EDI meetings at work, so maybe I was a bit more sensitised to it.

I hope the Co-op won’t be offering me an alphabet soup flag sticker with my shopping again this year. I noted that they were left on the back shelf of the till as though forgotten within a few days so I’m hopeful. I don’t think I’ve seen anything in Asda yet, and nothing has changed colour yet on my apps-looking at you Waitrose. My iPhone did an update a few days ago and the big exciting change was a pride background. I’ll stick to one of my favourite photos thanks.
When did June become pride month? I didn’t notice until the past few years when it seemed to explode with flags everywhere.

Saw a post on X from Jo Bartosch about Stroud Pride. Screenshots attached. Let's hope idiocy like this is waning.

Stroud Pride putting in writing that they intend to illegally discriminate then. Nice they were so bold about it.

It was worse to start with This was the first Facebook post, apparently.

So TQ+ without the LGB is encouraged? But the reverse is not allowed as harmful? Seems fair.

Homophobia like this is why pride month etc is needed.

If you have an issue with "gay sandwiches" then just don't buy them?

My issue is that Pride isn't inclusive. LGB are actively pushed out for those who ID as T or Q or the rest of the alphabet.

So Stroud Pride are happy to specify that lesbians who don't want to include men in their dating pool and gay men who don't want to include women in their dating pool are not welcome. Good to know that they are proud of their homophobia. We will be keeping the receipts.

It's not 'homophobia' to not want a particular sandwich.

And why do you care? Trans is homophobic at it's very DNA and nucleus, so it's not like you're against homophobia.

They pass by our window. Always a highlight seeing the corporate rainbow floats for supermarkets and banks blasting out Vengaboys next to groups of neckbeard troons, pup fetishists and furries.

How is relabeling blt sandwiches as lgbt sandwiches helping acceptance of gay people? Isn't that what Pride was for: out and proud and improving acceptance?

Now it is all about showing any fetish you can in public and knowing nobody can stop you. This behaviour is actively hurting acceptance as it is time and time again linking fetish with gay in the minds of people and it really needs to stop.

I think the OP and the first poster are both right. Much less corporate cheerleading (it’s now controversial, plus rainbow-washing is a bit old hat now), and more T-centric and vocal this year because of the court loss. Also, less-corporate will tend to lead to more-radical anyway.

@Christinapple You must have been very sad then to see a focus on homophobia being crowded out by the T agenda over the past decade.

Think of all the good Stonewall might have done in that time had it kept its original focus, expanding its work overseas perhaps where many legal battles are not yet won.

Hopefully Pride can now re-centre on a sustainable version of what gay rights means.

Homophobia like saying LGB 'views' are harmful?

You should really take that up with Stroud Pride, everyone here is already appalled by their homophobia.

If the current raging transactism is anything to go by, it will be full of aggressive, excited men, feverishly pushing every boundary they can possibly think of.

I suspect corporate support will have waned massively, many businesses not wanting to be associated with criminal acts like vandalism and men exposing themselves in public.

And if, as according to Stroud, LGB views are banned, it will be awash with men being hopelessly homophobic and misogynistic in turn.

All of it directed towards women.

And, I predict, all of it forensically documented from umpteen different angles.