Are you celebrating "Pride Month"?

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CallMeKate said:
Any thoughts on what the connection is in their minds, Patty? If you're proud to be gay, great! There are parades to show your pride... there are fairs like the one coming up close to me soon. I would think they desire respect and to be treated like anyone else (which of course is how it should be) ... so doing something like this would seem to bring the opposite result. 🤷‍♀️
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PeppermintPatty said:
I think it must happen at the very end of the parade when people are half tanked. I really don’t know. There are always those that want to literally shove it in your face who ruin it for all the others. Most gay people I knew / know kept a low profile. They wanted to be accepted and doing this type didn’t help any.
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I did answer @CallMeKate ‘s question .
 

Pepper said:
Yes, and personally I'm not gay. For those who think this stuff is a joke, consider Stonewall, 1969 and i.e. "Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998."

Heteros don't need celebration. The Majority never does. Majority Rules. Gays don't. We're Here, We're Queer, Live With It. Allow them something. Throw a bone when it's needed. Centuries of hiding and persecution.
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Yeah hetero pride as such isn’t much at risk. Of course everyone needs to have some self esteem, whatever our bent. But straights need to recognize that society greatly values our orientation and undermines the self worth of those who love differently. I’d happily celebrate a “get over ourselves” day but mostly these niche pride days are a distraction, even if unfortunately necessary where minorities are shamed for being who they are.
 
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No I dont celebrate Pride Month myself - nothing against it or against parades or even half naked people- because half naked people are at dance shows, beaches etc anyway.

Nobody is shoving it in my face - is no different to any other celebrations I'm not involved in.

Unfortunately some of the comments on here are showing why we need Pride Month - there are still prejudices against gay people.
 
His Dudeness said:
My problem with "Pride Month" is the part that the media never covers but happens every year...

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I'm not defending the content of this picture at all but just wanted to clarify that this was taken at a World Naked Bike Ride event in London on June 12, 2017. The event was not Pride related at all. In this article from Yahoo News, it states the picture has been used a couple of times on X claiming it was taken at Pride Events. The purpose of the World Naked Bike Ride event is to make people more aware how vulnerable bike riders are on the city streets. I just wanted to clarify .

"We also found several other postings of the picture, also from June 2023. At least one tweet claimed that the photograph had been captured during a Seattle Pride event that reportedly included some nude men, a subject that we comprehensively reported about in a different article.

From everything we could find, yes, this photograph really did show children walking past at least four naked men (their *******ia have been blurred in the tweet). In fact, there were likely many more naked men and women just outside of the frame.

As for the truth about the setting of the picture, however, it was captured at the World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) in London and not at a specific Pride event. The event occurred on June 10, 2017."

Photo of Children Walking Past Naked Men Is from 2017 London Bike Event, Not Pride

I had never heard of the World Naked Bike Ride but apparently it is a thing !

World Naked Bike Ride - Wikipedia
 
jpstrap said:
@Matrix Please consider my request to kill this thread. Why? Because the "high-level" ranking forum members are swarming to descend upon what they perceive as an upstart? Who knows? My posts are honest and pure and intelligently composed. The replies to my posts are becoming nasty, political, gratuitous and disgusting. Thank you for considering this.
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If I plan to share strong opinions on a very controversial topic, I would prepare myself for any harsh comments.
 
Wow, this has been an interesting thread to say the least. Comments like "disgusting" just show a level of ignorance I can't fathom. My husband and I have been together for 32 years. We live a quiet life. We don't "shove our lifestyle" into anyone's face nor do we ask anyone to accept us. We have lots of straight friends that we are close to and they appreciate the fact that we are a loving, successful couple. They couldn't care less that two men love each other.

I've never participated in Gay Pride parades because I think they tend to be over the top and that's not my thing, but I do support Gay Pride Month because of everything the gay community has been through to gain acceptance. To those who poo poo it, try being a gay man in the 70's and 80's (during AIDS), losing close friends, being called "faggot" and "homo" and being passed over for business opportunities. And despite someone else's comment, over 70% of people in the US have no issue with gay marriage. Believe what you will.

"A May 2022 Gallup poll found that 71% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 28% were against. The 2022 American Values Atlas by Public Religion Research Institute found that 69% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 28% opposed it."

I won't take the time to address all the hatred and lack of understanding in some of the responses. I have a happy, successful life and I've come too far to be concerned about what homophobic people think of me. Instead I will simply thank those of you who are open-minded and are supportive.

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Nathan said:
@jpstrap, I happen to enjoy this forum, and I think it's a wise decision on the part of the admin- @Matrix, to disallow political discussion. I would like to be able to enjoy reading threads on this forum without someone like you crapping in them, to satisfy their political urges.
If you can't control yourself maybe you could go to a site like 4chan(google it), where there are virtually no rules or standards of human decency.
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I thought it was horrible that the gay/ LGBTQ were persecuted in the past or now. I mean, come on, tortured as mentioned above by someone, thrown in jail, etc. But I am just fed up of it being bandied about everywhere all the time, parades, rainbows, on the news, etc. Actually, I think these are all run by militant LGBTQ. I know personally a lesbian couple and a gay couple and we were discussing this one day. All four said that they do not like all the publicity towards them. They feel this is private. They never go to Pride parades. They actually feel embarrassed by the people in the parades.
 
LoveTulips said:
I thought it was horrible that the gay/ LGBTQ were persecuted in the past or now. I mean, come on, tortured as mentioned above by someone, thrown in jail, etc. But I am just fed up of it being bandied about everywhere all the time, parades, rainbows, on the news, etc. Actually, I think these are all run by militant LGBTQ. I know personally a lesbian couple and a gay couple and we were discussing this one day. All four said that they do not like all the publicity towards them. They feel this is private. They never go to Pride parades. They actually feel embarrassed by the people in the parades.
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Today's media outlets blast out stories for maximum shock value, which translates into increased audience and advertising revenues.
 
jpstrap said:
@Matrix Please consider my request to kill this thread. Why? Because the "high-level" ranking forum members are swarming to descend upon what they perceive as an upstart? Who knows? My posts are honest and pure and intelligently composed. The replies to my posts are becoming nasty, political, gratuitous and disgusting. Thank you for considering this.
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I don't consider you an upstart. I will not say openly in this forum what I consider you to be. If you can't take the pushback then move on or do some self-reflection.

I'm out. Just reading this thread has been exhausting! :ROFLMAO:
 
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Colleen said:
Thank you for verbally expressing exactly how I feel. They may be very nice people, but I find their lifestyle disgusting and offensive and I resent it being shoved down our throats. Don't we (non-gay's) have just as much right to our opinions as they do? Society has become so immoral that wrong is considered right and right is considered wrong. FYI...I don't agree with the "non-political" remark about Marxism.
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yes you do have a right to your own opinions and you too can organize a march about it quite freely without provocation ; once a month ; a year ; bi-annually etc etc - feel free it's called democracy?
 
By the way, on the topic of pride parades and gay/lesbian people having sex in movies or just being too blatant with their bodies. Hey, I don't even like graphic sex between heterosexuals on TV and in the movies. Or in books, I don't like anything graphic sex anywhere. And yet hubby and I enjoyed sex a lot in the past ( not since I've had abdominal cancer - I'm ok now).
 
seadoug said:
I don't consider you an upstart. I will not say openly in this forum what I consider you to be. If you can't take the pushback then move on or do some self-reflection.

I'm out. Just reading this thread has been exhausting! :ROFLMAO:
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Bye, bye
 
Pride celebrations to me also demonstrate lively and liveable democracies at work : here's some other things that occur besides marching:

What happens in Pride Month?


Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS.

wikipedia: 2024
 
LoveTulips said:
By the way, on the topic of pride parades and gay/lesbian people having sex in movies or just being too blatant with their bodies. Hey, I don't even like graphic sex between heterosexuals on TV and in the movies. Or in books, I don't like anything graphic sex anywhere. And yet hubby and I enjoyed sex a lot in the past ( not since I've had abdominal cancer - I'm ok now).
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I agree.

But it isn't an anti gay thing, it goes for any parades, movies etc of any sex.

Of course I can and do just choose not to watch them/ be involved in them.
 
Pride month and Pride marches are about several different things or to put it another way they are about "how we now function as a more equal society?" In democracies we all have the right to object AND march. Remember the Jarrow marchers - remembered and sung about by a popular British pop star [name escapes - help me out someone?] This was one of the examples of democracy beginning to awake perhaps. Do you see any such grievance OR celebration marches in China [last one was Tianamen Square if I recall?] ; North Korea ; Russia etc. This kind of human demonstration is also one of a democracy and we should be proud of that
 

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