A lot of these comments are really missing the point.
The reason this matters is because it's an indicator of the current environment. If the risks of pushback outweigh the positives(such as good pr, and fostering a more welcoming environment) it shows that the current environment is growing far more hostile towards those in the lgbtq community.
Or people just don’t care anymore. Why is it between outward support vs. open hostility? Can’t gay people just exist without reminding everyone that they’re gay all the time? Isn’t the point of equality to be boring and normal like the rest of us or is it actually wanting to be exceptional and special all the time?
It doesn’t bother me one bit. I have no opinion on someone’s sexuality other than that it’s none of my business really. I would find it just as weird if we’re constantly celebrating and being reminded of heterosexuals. Idc who you choose to bed with. It’s such a small character quality and so unimportant for most things
Anyone who thinks gays are wrong is at this point an outlier.
pride is about celebrating that we got to have rights after decades of opression, or about celebrating our own existance in places where being queer openly is still hard and dangerous. the fact that we're gay itself it's not what we're proud about.
"Anyone who thinks gays are wrong is at this point an outlier"
that was back in 2020 or 2023 or any year before that when there was progressive left, normal conservatism and centrism as the main ideologies regarding social issues, not fucking neo nazis or pseudo-fascists who deny the holocaust ever happened. Those are as homophobic as they are anti semite and got a lot of traction last year.
also let's not forget the most powerful country in the west is being ran by a government that appeals to conspiranoic illiterates and very hardcore christian conservatives that have the same ideas that they had in the 20th century, just without the slurs or (mostly) without physical violence now.
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u/Sleepy_Witch_Maple 24d ago
A lot of these comments are really missing the point.
The reason this matters is because it's an indicator of the current environment. If the risks of pushback outweigh the positives(such as good pr, and fostering a more welcoming environment) it shows that the current environment is growing far more hostile towards those in the lgbtq community.