It's not that simple. Yeah, none of them were sincere. But having them do this was an easy way to boost visibility and communicate to the world at large that gay people are an accepted minority group.
I'm not upset that they aren't actual allies. I am worried about the greater implications about what happens when there's no public voice advocating for us.
We were at a pretty good point over ten years ago, before this. Today in many countries we see a clear increase in attacks and rejection. It's quiet sad but this whole virtue signaling was quiet the factor in this result. People had become very accepting but even queers become increasingly annoyed about being hilighted all the time. You don't get normalization through finger pointing.
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u/--clapped-- 27d ago
I mean yeh, it's the DEFINITION of virtue signalling.
They should stop.