Gay pride never made any sense to me. It is like straight pride. Or bi pride. Or white people pride. Or black people pride. How can you be proud of something which you had no control over. You are gay precisely because you were born that way. Then how can you take pride in something you had no control over? It makes no sense. Are you also proud of the fact that you have two eyes?
This is my problem with gay pride parades. I got no problem with gay parades. I love that. That is awesome. It makes me happy to see morals being turned over. It amuses me to see the religious people go angry over this and how these gay people are going to destroy the world. I completely support having gay men kissing in parades in public places, and I would also support gay men having buttsex in public places. That be really awesome.
Often even gay people themselves have issues with pride parades because they are directly in your face. They say the gay people should not be so excited and all flashy about it in the streets. I do not share in this problem, in fact, the part of parades being in the face of everybody in the street is what I love about them. I have a different problem with them. The pride part is what I got a problem with. If gay pride parades dropped the pride and simply became gay parades then I would stand in complete support of them.
Some people question the necessity of pride parades. Are they really necessary to get your message out? Well, I ask, what message? There is not really much of a message to pride parades. It is more of an excuse for overly sexual gay men to be intimate with one another. It is really more of a celebration of the fun of being gay than really any kind of message. And there is nothing wrong with doing this. There is no message in pride parades that I can see, but there is a purpose to them. They are an ultimate big giant middle finger staring in the face of all the people who dislike gay people. It is a way of saying, "we are gay and we are not ashamed of it, so now we will go and make out to prove our point".
Do not fall into the whole "tolerance" trap. Do not ask for your haters to tolerate you. Instead do not tolerate them. They hate you, so love each other in front of their faces, as a message of insult to them. It is a way of saying that you are not going to conform to what they want you to conform to.
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The difference in this case is that gay orientation is often tied into gay culture. Whereas "straight" people do not have a specific culture, many in the gay community insist that there are behaviours, clothing, etc. that must go along with being gay. It's that culture, not the orientation itself, that is being celebrated. So don't think of it as an expression of sexuality. It's just the gay equivalent of Italian identity fairs or stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteYou can't look at it in a vacuum. A lot of (most?) gay people are raised to be ashamed of their sexuality. Gay Pride parades are just a way for them to stand up to all the haters and say that they're not going to be ashamed... they're going to be proud, instead.
ReplyDelete"You can't look at it in a vacuum. A lot of (most?) gay people are raised to be ashamed of their sexuality. Gay Pride parades are just a way for them to stand up to all the haters and say that they're not going to be ashamed... they're going to be proud, instead.":
ReplyDeleteDo you agree that a person cannot be proud of what he has no control over? And that people can only take pride in their own individual accomplishments? Then you agree with me.
They can be proud of others things. They can be proud of not hiding that they are gay and being open about it, that is, as a statement of not being afraid. They can be proud of not conforming to what others think of them. But it is foolish for them to be proud in being gay itself. They should have parades, but they should drop the pride thing, or at least change what kind of pride they mean.
They can be proud of not hiding that they are gay and being open about it, that is, as a statement of not being afraid.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think that's what they're doing. You're being overly literal in interpreting the phrase "gay pride."