I suppose if you are gay or a fag hag you would.
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Cerridwen — 3 years ago(June 12, 2022 02:16 AM)
To answer your question, no, I don't personally celebrate Pride. I don't feel the need, as being LGBT+ has never made my life harder.
The Oppression Olympics are more obnoxious than any gay pride parade, however. You act as though many gays aren't still harassed and killed for being so. Who cares who has it worse regarding the mistreatment of minority groups? The responses to such events as the Pulse shooting make it very clear that homophobia is far from conquered in the US, so the event is still warranted.
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ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(June 12, 2022 05:02 AM)
I do agree that homosexual beings, still have hurdles to cross regarding the ignorance and prejudice that gets attributed to them. The main problem is that it gets convoluted as well, by expanding a natural and basic sexuality into a confounded alphabet soup of nonsense.
Those that endorse this LGBTQI conundrum, have in fact gotten in their own ways and are making things worse.
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Cerridwen — 3 years ago(June 12, 2022 05:13 AM)
Yeah, I agree with that.
It's definitely not a homogeny, and some of the more ridiculous ideas that come out serve to discredit the movement, as everyone is grouped in with the extremists even if they don't share those views.
The louder voices claiming to speak for all of us rarely espouse what most of us actually think / believe.
That particular issue is shared by all controversial groups, of course, and is not unique to the LGBT+ community, but it still certainly affects it.
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(June 12, 2022 06:03 AM)
I've never been moved or interested by Gay Pride month. I have watched a couple of Stonewall documentaries and I have nothing but absolute respect and admiration for those who fought back. Absolute respect. If I had been an adult living in the 1970s, I would have probably felt differently about Gay Pride. But these days, it feels like more an excuse to party.
One difference between black oppression and gay oppression is that if you are black, you cannot hide in the closet and hide. Unless we're talking "Imitation of Life", you can't lie about the color of your skin. On the other hand, you can very easily lie about being gay. My parents knew I was gay and yet they encouraged the lie. I had a friend once who very astutely pointed out that my parents cared less about whether or not I was gay and more about me feeling ashamed about the fact, and, therefore, keeping it to myself. So, yeah, that's pretty unhealthy. Not at all supportive.
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Cerridwen — 3 years ago(June 12, 2022 03:35 PM)
It's fine if people don't care, it just seems an awful lot like caring if one is bothered enough to make threads about it. People who truly don't care neither bitch about nor praise it.
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