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stevenpiziks) wrote2026-06-02 02:05 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2026-06-02 02:05 pm
Here We Go Again
Oh, look--they're doing it again.
(TL/DR: Some red states are declaring June to be straight pride month to cover up Gay Pride Month, though they can't "undeclare" Gay Pride.)
As I recall, some group staged a hetero pride festival a couple years ago. No one came, and it flopped. Another group organized a straight pride parade. It got a couple-hundred viewers at most and hasn't been repeated since.
Look, the reason Pride exists is because LGBTQ people are bonded by the struggle for recognition, equality, and acceptance. The movement was born out of anger. Everyone in the LGBTQ community shares this struggle and this anger, and it gives us something to fight for together.
Straight people don't struggle for equality. Nuclear families don't fight for recognition. Fidelious couples don't have to demand acceptance. None of them are angry at the way society treats them. They've been denied nothing. So they have nothing in common except that they're straight, nuclear, or fedelious, and it's never occurred to them to think about how society treats them because they're seen as the default.
"Hey, I'm straight!"
"You are? Me, too! What do you want from society that you aren't already getting?"
"Nothing!"
"Me, too!"
See? With nothing to fight for, no one gets revved up enough to take to the streets.
But the GOP is clutching at straws (or their pearls), looking for something, ANYTHING to distract their votes from the disaster that is their government. I'd roll my eyes, but I'm not revved up enough.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/red-states-are-declaring-june-something-other-than-pride-month-in-latest-anti-lgbtq-trend/
(TL/DR: Some red states are declaring June to be straight pride month to cover up Gay Pride Month, though they can't "undeclare" Gay Pride.)
As I recall, some group staged a hetero pride festival a couple years ago. No one came, and it flopped. Another group organized a straight pride parade. It got a couple-hundred viewers at most and hasn't been repeated since.
Look, the reason Pride exists is because LGBTQ people are bonded by the struggle for recognition, equality, and acceptance. The movement was born out of anger. Everyone in the LGBTQ community shares this struggle and this anger, and it gives us something to fight for together.
Straight people don't struggle for equality. Nuclear families don't fight for recognition. Fidelious couples don't have to demand acceptance. None of them are angry at the way society treats them. They've been denied nothing. So they have nothing in common except that they're straight, nuclear, or fedelious, and it's never occurred to them to think about how society treats them because they're seen as the default.
"Hey, I'm straight!"
"You are? Me, too! What do you want from society that you aren't already getting?"
"Nothing!"
"Me, too!"
See? With nothing to fight for, no one gets revved up enough to take to the streets.
But the GOP is clutching at straws (or their pearls), looking for something, ANYTHING to distract their votes from the disaster that is their government. I'd roll my eyes, but I'm not revved up enough.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/red-states-are-declaring-june-something-other-than-pride-month-in-latest-anti-lgbtq-trend/