Happy Pride Month, Y’all! 🏳️‍🌈

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Many of my gay friends concur with you, wmheel. Well, maybe not uncomfortable, but mildly annoying...
 
wmheel1287 said:
Controversial, but as a gay man I find Pride month to be tedious and uncomfortable.
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Tim Miller on The Bulwark agrees with you. However, when I consider the alternative and the fact that I'm the father of a transgender daughter, I'd rather support, honor, and respect one's Pride. Love and understanding over shame and self-loathing every day of every month of every year.
 
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June 1969 until now have seen some changes.
ETA: Tomorrow would be Allen Ginsberg’s 100 birthday. I’m sure he would have something to say about Pride Month! I posted Howl on the poetry thread and had forgotten how much he was helping change the country back then. Lots of echoes or rhymes with today.
 
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Ramrouser said:
Pride Month is designed to make straight white people feel special about themselves for being so virtuous.

Let’s just treat gay folks as regular Joes and Janes.
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I'm confused - do you feel that Pride Month conflicts with you treating gay people like "regular Joes and Janes"?
 
Ramrouser said:
Pride Month is designed to make straight white people feel special about themselves for being so virtuous.

Let’s just treat gay folks as regular Joes and Janes.
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Strange how you appear without fail in culture war topics, but have been a ghost in discussions about Trump’s historically incomparable corruption, the disastrous Iran War, daily evidence of Trump’s ever spiraling cognition, inflation, economic evisceration of the working and middle class, etc.

Almost like you are only truly motivated by your animus and insecurity.
 
pspsps said:
Strange how you appear without fail in culture war topics, but have been a ghost in discussions about Trump’s historically incomparable corruption, the disastrous Iran War, daily evidence of Trump’s ever spiraling cognition, inflation, economic evisceration of the working and middle class, etc.

Almost like you are only truly motivated by your animus and insecurity.
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Yeah, me stating that our gay neighbors simply ought to be treated as normal folks makes me "insecure" with "animus." OK.

The discussions about Trump are becoming tedious and boring. News flash: this board hates absolutely everything about Trump. That just summed up 90% of the discussion points.

Sports and cultural threads are more interesting and informative.
 
finesse said:
I don't celebrate anything but I imagine it's the feeling that it should be as pointless as celebrating being blond or tall or something. It should be just part of people being people 7/52/365 and it's embarrassing that it's not.
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I'm a straight man, so my take matters even less than usual here. But I view Pride Month not as pride in being LGBTQ, which I agree should be a nothing to society. I view it as pride in being authentically yourself and pride in being part of a community that has endured hatred and prejudice and bigotry and tragedy and has persevered to earn rights they should have been entitled to from the start. It's about an experience, not a trait.
 
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