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?

"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 daughter is a lesbian, and I wouldn't consider myself homophobic. My issue is that Gay Pride used to be about events where gay people could come together, have a good time, and fundraise or campaign for causes that specifically affected them.

How does renaming a sandwich help anyone? Maybe Tesco makes a donation (to Stonewall, probably) for the rainbow garden gnomes that they sell, but I suspect their real goal is to cash in on what they feel is a trendy cause.

If gay people originally used the rainbow flag to celebrate what they have in common, is it right for straight people and companies to use them to show they're tolerant? Are LGB people allowed to have a space just for themselves?

Less? I bloody hope so. As a lesbian, I avoid "Pride" like the plague.

Wow, the true colours of what it’s sadly become.

All the Pride tat was reduced in our local Tesco the day after it finished. I doubt anyone bought it before or after the event so probably ended up binned. I think it's just something Tesco feel they have to do to show they're "inclusive".

The sincerity of the big corporates' support for Pride is clear to see from the fact that they don't do it in their overseas subsidiaries operating in countries where it's against the law to have sex with someone of the same sex.

Transactivists have ruined pride. And they can't wait to annihilate all the support the gay people fought for.

Just to note: We will be taking extra care to not allow performers who hold
harmful views. Such as LGB views.

At fucking pride, for God sake.

@Christinapple Don't you feel even a smidgeon of shame associating yourself with this movement?

I have a problem with Trans saying that gay people can only be part of Pride if they give up the right to be LGB and become part of the TQ ideology on terms dictated by Trans.

TQ can of course meet and exclude all non trans, but probably not as 'Pride' as that name is taken and they'd have to be careful to return any donations intended for gay people.

When I was young people wanted gay people banned from places but I didn't think I'd see the day that came back.

Trans is what? 😂

they think lesbians can be men, and lesbians who disagree are sexual racists, according to Stonewall. And if you have 'LGB views', you're not welcome at Stour Pride.

Hardly gets more homophobic

Same-sex attraction, i.e. homosexuality or being gay/lesbian, is all about being attracted to only one of the two sexes, your own. Gender ideology says people who identify as the opposite sex actually are the opposite sex, even though they don't have the physical characteristics of that sex, although they have may have had medical treatment to make some superficial changes. The most zealous gender ideologues say it's bigoted and prejudiced for gay men to refuse to consider dating and having sex with transmen, and for lesbians to do likewise with transwomen. For the gay men and the lesbians, however, this is all far too like what many of them grew up with:

How do you know you wouldn't like it? You just haven't met the right man/woman yet.
Or even worse: You're unnatural ...

So yes, it's homophobic.

This:

Agree. It’s going to be enlightening to some bystanders, I think.

M&S could do an alphabet soup with alphabetti spaghetti this year, you can thank me later, M&S.

I would have thought so too, but my sector is going all-out again in our region, for the first time in about ten years. Jumping through hoops for some DEI accreditation they suddenly all seem to need. I was expecting this five years ago, would have thought it had long jumped the shark.

Jumped the Blahaj

Well, I do so hope that when they go to councils that are controlled by Reform, with their hand out, they will be very publicly told to clear off and to stick their Pride flag right up their collective arse.

They don't need a month, a day or a lunch hour to celebrate their sexuality and, if they do insist, maybe there should be lectures about how the Trans Lobby would have had each and every gay boy and girl pretend to be the opposite sex.

Talk about parading with the enemy-daft sods.

The Co-op and anyone else selling sandwiches with Gay and Trans flags on should be boycotted by every woman in this land. Let them get their profits from the Trans community-that should keep them going-not!

Yeah homophobia is why this year's pride is needed

Glad we can agree on something.

We need it to spell out the homophobia in the trans community once and for all.

The Fail ran an article about how the government is now restricting public spending on government organisations and bodies ordering things wastefully, like the progress flag and rainbow lanyards. If true thats an interesting move...

Do you know what homophobia is?

I do. One example is the CEO of stonewall telling lesbians who won't consider having sex with trans identified men that they are akin to sexual racists.

We do know, thanks. Quite a few of the regular posters in this topic are lesbians, so they know first hand, and a lot of the rest of us are quite old and can remember how different things used to be for gay men and lesbians. We thought things had improved but unfortunately the last few years have seen a regression.

Pride is more about fetish these days than celebrating LGB people.

Saying that lesbians that don't do dick are bigoted is homophobic and that's what the TQ are all for. I don't think I've seen a TRA that hasn't posted/said homophobic things

I'm glad pride propoganda has gone quiet. It's very divisive and let's face it, just an excuse for shops to make their logo look very pretty , and get 'virtue signalling ' points. Plus profiteering with all the rainbow tat.

The idea is to treat gay people as equals , and rightly so. The whole "pride" movement does not have that agenda. I actually feel really sorry for some gay people that are just trying to quietly get on with their lives, like other humans, and cringe thinking that everyone thinks they're shouty rainbow people (or want to be ). Most of the gay men and women I know don't want affiliation to the movement. They just want to live and be allowed to live in peace (which the pride kink festival is not helping with)

Ditto, Pride long ago stopped being a march by LGB people to campaign for the rights of LGB people and celebrate our existence. The last one I went to with my wife was in 2019 and was full of big companies with floats being woke, transactivists, men in drag and gimp, straight families. Plain and simple lesbians were hardly there at all.

I think in a world where it's still a punishable offence to be gay, Pride still has a place as a campaigning annual march, to show support and solidarity.