Monday, June 07, 2021

Proud, Mary?


Honest to God, “we” have managed to completely suck every last ounce of joy out of our own celebration. (This obsession with hating the mainstreaming of gay acceptance is the opposite of productive.) Sometimes I think straight people are the only ones who understand Pride anymore.

It’s fine to want to expand people’s awareness of the full genesis of Pride. But it’s rich coming from people who came out decades after the hard work older generations -- from Frank Kameny and Marsha P. Johnson to Sylvia Rivera and Larry Kramer -- did that made it so much easier for them, and then they’re condescending pricks about it to boot. 

The divisions over Pride has long stopped being between between homosexuals and homophobes -- they're all inner LGBT conflicts that seem to be ripping us apart rather than uniting us. I don't know about you, but I'd be OK if they just scrapped the whole thing. 


Huh? Who exactly in the LGBT community is "against" Black and brown sex workers? A friend suggested that maybe this was written by a "Belarusian bot" -- but as much as I would like for this to be true, I think I have met too many of these people in real life for it to be so. 

12 comments:

j said...

I miss real Pride when we were all united as one tribe- yes a tribe of many different colors but we marched as one- now everyone wants to have their own parade missing the point that in unity there is power.

Alan said...

Similarly, the push to keep people out of parades, like gay officers in uniform, misses the point of #Diversity.

Stephen said...

Pride celebrations and the Houston parade event has been dying a slow death for 10+ years. Let it die.

mikeinbama said...

It's funny how gay white males see diversity as a threat to their once "ALL WHITE GAY PRIDE PARADE". Just like politics, gay white people (especially males) always try to protect their influence, standing and their power in the gay community. Not until recently, gay white people haven't given a damn about the struggles of minority gay, lesbian and trans people. Gay pride has always been a festival of white gay males parading and dancing around stealing from black culture and claiming it as their own. There's a reason why minorities want their own Pride celebration because everything has been white washed including gay history to exclude minority contributions. Believe it or not, just because you're gay doesn't make you less racist. (I forgot it's a preference, No Blacks, No Asians, No Fems)

Kenneth M. Walsh said...

@mikeinbama: Bravo. You really nailed this gay candlemaker for celebrating Pride.

j said...

Pride in NYC has become a holiday for straight people who attend it in order to seem cool. Are white male images dominating gay culture yes in the same way an unrealistic body image in which all gay men have to look like Falcon models.

Sanford said...

That’s funny. “No Blacks, No Asians, No Fems” seems to be mikeinbama’s rule when picking hot guys to post on his blog!

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Mark said...

Anyone who thinks Pride celebrations in NYC aren’t diverse has never been to a Pride celebration in New York: They look like the population of the city and no one is “threatened” by it.

Anne S. said...

Pride is not an "assignment." It's a time for LGBTQ+ folks of all walks of life to come together to celebrate the gains we've made.

While LGBTQ+ people of color continue to face the same racial barriers that all people of color face, marriage equality and the right to serve in the U.S. military are things that were gained for all of us.

These and other longterm objectives are reasons we celebrate.

Larry said...

Agreed. I have a friend who was ranting in this way and I have put him on mute until he stops foaming at the mouth.

Hank Plante said...

379 of the Fortune 500 companies filed amicus briefs on our behalf in the same-sex marriage case, which we won in the Supreme Court. That's 379 companies that told their LGBTQ employees "we're with you, we support you." And it's a message they sent to the rest of the world to get on board. I don't care if they did it for business purposes, their help makes an enormous difference and I'm glad to see those employees representing their companies in Pride marches.

Rix said...

Surprisingly missing from the zoomer's rant...no fats. (not)