I was just in Sainsbury's and there was a staff member with one of those little stalls where they give you samples to try. It was limited-edition digestives with pink raspberry icing. But as it was in the chilled / deli aisle, at first glance I thought it was some kind of ham (don't like ham), until I looked again and realised it was a digestive and stopped to have one.
So I was chatting about this to the guy "I almost gave them a miss, thought it was ham" etc and he said oh that's nothing, I've been getting grief because people think they are LGBTQ/queer/pride digestives. Apparently customers have been telling him they're sick of everything being "prided" and digestives don't need to be LGBT.
In fact they have nothing to do with pride, it's some kind of anniversary celebration and totally unrelated. But it seemed like such an indication that the general public are so sick of LGBTQ being bigged up and forced onto everything all the time. I don't think most people are homophobic and they probably have no issue with LGBT rights existing. But I think most people have a natural sense of fairness and don't get why this one thing is constantly being pushed above all else.
But there must be people who are doing the pushing, in every organisation and institution that does do things like this (aside from the fact that they actually weren't in this case) - why don't these people realise it's actually counterproductive and is really starting to piss people off? Even if you are the most enthusiastic TRA in the world, turning LGBT (or just T in some cases) rights into something that is constantly in everyone's face and is treated preferentially compared to other groups, isn't helping your cause.
Just wondering how long it will take for them to grasp this – or if maybe they don't care.