Seeing the Courage Coalition protest last June and thinking this was the first real Pride event I had seen since Obergefell was the spark that led to my joining up with the Coalition. When I heard that Raytheon was sponsoring Pride that’s when I knew it was corrupt to the core. This is a good thing long term.
Good for you!! I’d slightly amend to say, at least speaking for myself, that this is a good thing short term. I don’t want to have to live through another NYC “Pride” with all the flags and banners and kink, and the NY Times touting the “asexual” as it’s leader—I can only imagine who this year’s leader might be. It is grotesque.
Well said. You make a point that was kind of lost to me. Your point about erasure of homosexuality hit the mark in terms of me understanding something that has been simmering in the back of my mind. I have thought that for some time now, how many "trans" children are simply homosexual and that forcing this ideology erases both same-sex attracted people as it is trying to erase women. This leads to a powerful coalition forming between women and the LGB community, which we are seeing bearing fruit.
I don't really know. It can be a strong and positive coalition. I have lesbian friends who are on this same side in terms of erasure and particularly around the issue of transitioning children and gender dysphoria. My best friend is lesbian and she has been bothered that she is swept up in the tide of transmania - as she feels that she has nothing in common with this group. My nephew is gay and feels similarly.
I don't think many woman are clear about common concerns shared between our groups and I know that straight women are anxious even raising the questions or entering into dialogue. The current climate is one in which we are shouted down and called "Karens" and bigots because we can't possibly understand. The trans side has effectively co-opted LGB into their alphabet soup. I was even a bit fearful about initially broaching this issue with my friend and decided to just ask the question straight out. This fear has cooled speech, as it has around racial issues.
Yeah, I have never felt as alienated from the gay communtiy as I do now. Back in the 90s, there was a lot of fun there--we didn't take ourselves too seriously, even if we were serious about our cause. Nowadays, the movement seems dour and judgmental, constantly lecturing us about pronouns and deadnames and what have you.
And it's not just gender woo-woo. In Philadelphia, Pride organizers don't want police there...even gay or lesbian police. Since when are gays and lesbians excluded from Pride? Apparently, to really fit in you also have to embrace land acknowledgments, oppose capitalism, and hang on Greta Thunburg's every word. Crikey.
The same thing happened in SF with lesbian and gay officers banned if wearing their uniforms. The "compromise" was to allow them to march as long as they did not identify who they were. We can't be scaring the people with law enforcement marching. There was major blowback on this, but for naught. I'm of the older persuasion, and my gay and lesbian friends have pretty much dropped out since the Q&T takeover. This is no longer the same event as when Harvey Milk sat on the back of a convertible as it went past my place. All the pride signaling by companies has just gotten pathetic.
What ended police participation in the Toronto Pride parade was BLM's bullying. They shut down the parade by obstructing the street one year and threatened to do it every year if the police were ever invited again. Pride folded like a cheap lawn chair. This undid decades of painstaking bridge-building with the Toronto Police after things hit a low with the Emmanual Jacques murder (a 12 year old murdered by homosexual prostitutes and tavern bouncers) and the bath house raids in the 1970s.
I hadn't heard of that murder of the 12 year old boy. OMG - I'm going to try to find something about that. "Pride folded like a cheap lawn chair..." well said and it did because it was IMO.
Pronpouns and deadnames have nothing to do with gay; that's "trans" shit and we have no more to do with "trans" than we have to do with field mice. I completely disown everything "trans" and I am no ally, I do not support them, and their grotesque attention needs sicken me.
For that matter, I really don't have a lot of use for the "gay community" either.I went out clubbing for about 18 months in 1994-5, had at 40 the adolescence my stutter had denied me in my teens, then looked at myself in a mirror one night at The Brass Connection and said, "I'm done." I grabbed my shirt, hopped down from the loudspeaker I was sitting on, walked out and never went back.
Every night the same people, doing the same dances to music that I mostly hated ("don' want no short dick man ... don't don't don'tdon't ..."), the alcoholics standing in the same places, the aggressive sexual competition like a tribe of babboons (except babboons are prettier), the cruelty toward any man with the temerity to be over 30 ... bye. I'd had my fun, I had tons of sex but it was time to grow up.
Then in 1996 I had my start on the Internet, where I could meet men without having to put up with the drag queens and the cigarette smoke, and I was ten times as gone.
We need a movement again for lesbian and gay rights - the right to same sex love without discrimination or stigma - not corporate advertising campaigns.
That struggle never ended, even with Obergefell, even within the United States. We don’t yet have federal civil rights protection by statute, and the Supreme Court could easily reverse itself as we have seen.
If we had already won, we would not be awash in the homophobia of gender identity ideology. We would not see the “transing away of the gay,” medicalizing lgb teens and youth claiming that their bodies are “ wrong” for their same sex attraction & noncompliance wirh sex stereotypes.
The most intense homophobia I have ever experienced was from transactivists, often straight themselves or self hating closeted homosexuals, who thought it was “bigotry” to reject males as potential partners. I lost my job over it.
It was transactivists that targeted and destroyed the heart of lesbian culture, the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, & making it possible for lesbians (or any group of women) to meet outside the presence of males.
And this fit in quite well with the corporate agenda to coopt radical social movements and thereby push women and lesbians and gay men way back.
It is past time we take our movement back from corporate America who were never our friends.
Quote: "The most intense homophobia I have ever experienced was from transactivists."
This is something I've tried to explain to friends -- gay, lesbian, and straight -- who are all aboard the trans train. It's exhausting. They just don't get it.
And I'm terribly sorry to hear you lost your job by not bowing to the trans religion. That's another thing I've tried to tell friends -- that people are losing their jobs over this stuff. I just get rolled eyes and, in some cases, the end of friendships.
Yep, I agree! I was banned from my local LGB... online group because I was labeled a TERF. Even though I never talked about my personal feelings in the group about the Trans issues regarding children, (I just wanted to meet other local Lesbians to socialize!), someone reported that I posted anti-Trans sentiments on my personal FB page, so I was banned without any notice or discussion, as "a danger to Trans members."
Yes, you are either in total compliance or the enemy (worth destroying)! I've been threatened with physical violence online many times, simply because I wanted to talk about the issues. Rather than frighten me, it certainly spurred my determination to engage and fight this bs with all my energy!
I think that when transmaniacs reject those of us who espouse realities, like the binary, immutable nature of sex, it highlights the inherent incompatibility between homosexuals and transgenderism.
SO many gay men in corporate America! So how did this happen? I'm so sorry you lost your job for standing up for yourself and sanity in general. I hope it turned out to be for the best in the long run? I really hope so because courageous people deserve to have the red carpet rolled out for them. At the very least I hope you feel at peace knowing you are of strong character. xo ♥️
That's a HUGE win IMO. I feel your pain about being ostracized - we're all having to find our "people." There's no safety or benefit in being around or with people who would do such things but it is painful to be cast out, for sure. Also, things are changing pretty rapidly. Don't be surprised when you find the ostracizers coming to you for help.
Of course, yes indeed. I was trying to make a statement about how influential gay men are complicit but even so, sometimes they step up to the plate and it's so rare, it demands a red carpet parade.
Yes, they certainly are. I have been completely demoralized by seeing how many gay men I thought were our allies are actually hostile to girls' and women's rights. This Trans moral panic has been a painful eye-opener in so many ways.
Meanwhile, lesbians and straight women step up to the plate all day long every single day, and nobody ever gives us a red carpet parade.
I haven't been to a Pride event since the 1990s. With the advent of gay marriage, I don't think Pride is necessary. We can still lobby for our rights and will probably be more successful without all the hoopla. But I am someone who believes that being proud of being a lesbian is like being proud of the fact that I have blue eyes. So I may just be a curmudgeon.
To whom you are attracted sexually is purely subjective and therefore cannot reasonably be contested by an outside observer.
Where you decide to live your life on a spectrum of superficial, stereotypical male to female attributes (and we all do) is also purely subjective and similarly cannot be questioned.
However, your biological sex reflects an objective reality which cannot be changed by your subjective personal view and futile attempts to do so can result in serious health impacts to you as well as harms to members of the sex you are impersonating (primarily women).
Others who are grounded in objective reality should never be forced to accept your subjective version of your actual biological sex.
Finally, it's past time for the LGB community to separate themselves from the trans activists who are trying to take away the rights of women to fairness in sports and to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. They also advocate for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children many of whom would grow up gay.
Their actions are evil and the
understandable negative reaction to the harm they are causing is spilling over to innocent people who are just going about their business, marrying and leading their lives.
To my recollection (of my own experience in Chicago) the Pride Parade (one single Sunday afternoon in late June) was a “Party with a Purpose.” It was our celebration for ourselves in our community (in Chicago what we used to be able to call Boys Town before the gender woo). It was Mardi Gras with a message. “I Am What I Am,” “I Will Survive,” “We Are Family,” etc. were our anthems.
Gay Pride has metastasized into a month of in your face marketing madness, the parade itself has become inclusive to the point of parody. It is a “Queer” St Patrick’s Day where everybody gets to be a little gay! SMH. There’s been a heterosexual takeover in the form of the Gender Identity theory where one’s entry ticket is as easy as declaring oneself “non binary” (a made up identity that means you have both masculine and feminine traits).
If the withdrawal of the corporate dollars brings about a simplification and a return to our LGB roots…I am all for it. My guess is that we LGB folk will need to choose a different day for our own celebration and leave the end of June to the T+ crowd.
When I speak if heterosexual I am speaking of the conveniently non-binary or the bisexuals who never actually have homosexual encounters…they’re theoretical bisexuals because they think they could be, maybe, some day… yes, the autogynophiles are mostly heterosexual which is why they want to be “lesbians”
I don't believe that any "trans" person is heterosexual, except the AGP predators and fake lesbians....and maybe the ones who dissemble as trans or non-binary just to get invited to a party. Yes, there is that. Otherwise, "transwomen" are gay men.
The majority of transgenderist men are straight AGPs.
That's why they're all over lesbian spaces. They're just straight men perving on the male privilege of dominating women who want nothing to do with them. And they are the leaders of this transgenderism lobby. Look at James Pritzker, Long Chu, Joseph Lavery--the most powerful and disgusting of transgenderist men.
The minority of transgenderist men are gay men chock full of misogyny and internalized homophobia.
The rich gay men financing this transgenderism lobby don't even care about any of it except the money--and the fact that they're privileged white men who hate girls and women.
Schools, elementary and up, are still planning to send contingents of students and staff to Pride parades this year. Sad to predict that the scenes of children watching age-inappropriate kink will cause a conservative backlash against all LGB rights. If extremists continue to dominate, the center cannot hold.
❤️ "Things fall apart ... the centre cannot hold" - thanks for that lovely reminder of Yeats' poem The Second Coming and Joni Mitchell's beautiful rendition thereof 🙏📖🎶
I shared similar concerns, especially regarding how gender identity has usurped sexual orientation as the focus of pride events and within what’s now LGBTQ+ activism generally, in my April 4 column "The Backlash Against LGBTQ+ Is Real" - https://substack.com/home/post/p-160602533
I have long wondered why anyone would have any "pride" in lying to children and facilitating their mutilation. Why encouraging public displays of male sexual fetishes and paraphilias is something to be "proud" of. And why sexing up the feminine to the point where girls and young women reject their own bodies, is a reason for public celebration.
Every good cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket (Eric Hoffer)
In London it was a march at first, but it would be nicer if there was something to do at the end so we got a stage and a few stalls. But then the big West End bars wanted tents, so really it became a cruising zone and attracted men with zero politics… and got bigger. And all this got expensive so more stalls, and then sponsorship, and bigger and better stages. We went from disco acts to huge stars. The last Pride I went to, I waded through tons of trash people had strewn everywhere as the Pet Shop Boys played, and spent hours trying to get home. Pride had become a profitable juggernaut you couldn’t stop.
Pride becomes hubris. We have actually achieved all the equality we wanted here. We called it Pride because we were told being gay was shameful, but that’s stopped and tbh I am embarrassed at how young ‘queers’ are using the political situation to demand everything and bully people. Interesting to see the corporate sponsors withdraw, but it must be awkward when people are performing extreme sex acts in front of kids wearing rainbow t-shirts… with your logo there in the picture.
I and a group of LGB WA Staters wrote this as a protest letter to Seattle Pride laying out all of the problems with "LGBTQIA2S+" activism. It's a long read, but the point was to put in a plethora of links supporting our claims so they can't pretend they haven't had opportunities to understand the problems people have with this activism, especially around medicalizing kids. They are only doubling down here in WA, FTR.
I read your entire letter and it was perfect. Well documented, well supported, well argued. It's saved in my archives for the day I can get through to my gay son that T doesn't necessarily have his best interests at heart. We got into a bit of a fight about how the gay community is being pushed aside. He won't look at it.
Great article, well said! I too am an "old, old L" who stopped going to pride celebrations some 20 years ago as I was tired of looking at mostly naked men waving themselves around and promoting different sexual kinks. This wasn't my pride, this was guys advertising for sex. This wasn't about pride at all, in my opinion. I agree that we should think about what we want and need in the LGB community and start over. Not notoriety, not fetish-worship, not promoting any other agenda other than to educate and support our LGB kin of all ages.
I might be missing something here, but to me, people were always people regardless of who they were attracted to. Sexual attraction has nothing to do with the character of a person. I don't think of my cousin as my lesbian cousin, I think of her as my cousin. Were she prosecuted for simply being who she was, I would not be ok with that. That's what i understand the original purpose of Pride was: to let gay and lesbians live their lives without discrimination.
Now, I agree it has turned to a merchandising event. I last attended Pride in Columbus, Ohio about 8 years ago. It was nothing but corporate b.s. and virtue signaling. Nothing like Pride I saw in the 90s. I agree that sponsors are pulling out because of backlash. People absolutely have lumped this child gender nonsense with everything else, and it's unfortunate. For the record, I am absolutely disgusted by children being fed the entire gender thing. I support adults living their lives, but leave kids the hell out of it. If a child is gay, lesbian, or bi or other, no one will need to tell them that. They will know. No one told my cousin. No one told my great uncle. They just knew.
I agree Pride needs to go back to a simple, non-corporate event. The heart and soul are lost now.
Corporate sponsors didn’t sink you,you sank you by betraying the Lesbians,little girls and the women of this country and hitching your wagon to the trans freaks who’s hatred of women was only bested by their arrogance.Men’s fetish culture was not something I would have traded so much good will and advancement for.It will take years for people to return to opening up their hearts after the mutilation of so many children and families.
This is excellent! I would be very happy, as an old, old “L”, if the whole month of June—and indeed every month—were “Pride” free.
Seeing the Courage Coalition protest last June and thinking this was the first real Pride event I had seen since Obergefell was the spark that led to my joining up with the Coalition. When I heard that Raytheon was sponsoring Pride that’s when I knew it was corrupt to the core. This is a good thing long term.
Good for you!! I’d slightly amend to say, at least speaking for myself, that this is a good thing short term. I don’t want to have to live through another NYC “Pride” with all the flags and banners and kink, and the NY Times touting the “asexual” as it’s leader—I can only imagine who this year’s leader might be. It is grotesque.
Probably some "I identify as nonbinary" freak.
Well said. You make a point that was kind of lost to me. Your point about erasure of homosexuality hit the mark in terms of me understanding something that has been simmering in the back of my mind. I have thought that for some time now, how many "trans" children are simply homosexual and that forcing this ideology erases both same-sex attracted people as it is trying to erase women. This leads to a powerful coalition forming between women and the LGB community, which we are seeing bearing fruit.
Thank you for all that you do.
So would that become the WLGB?
I don't really know. It can be a strong and positive coalition. I have lesbian friends who are on this same side in terms of erasure and particularly around the issue of transitioning children and gender dysphoria. My best friend is lesbian and she has been bothered that she is swept up in the tide of transmania - as she feels that she has nothing in common with this group. My nephew is gay and feels similarly.
I don't think many woman are clear about common concerns shared between our groups and I know that straight women are anxious even raising the questions or entering into dialogue. The current climate is one in which we are shouted down and called "Karens" and bigots because we can't possibly understand. The trans side has effectively co-opted LGB into their alphabet soup. I was even a bit fearful about initially broaching this issue with my friend and decided to just ask the question straight out. This fear has cooled speech, as it has around racial issues.
In many ways this feels like a first step.
Yeah, I have never felt as alienated from the gay communtiy as I do now. Back in the 90s, there was a lot of fun there--we didn't take ourselves too seriously, even if we were serious about our cause. Nowadays, the movement seems dour and judgmental, constantly lecturing us about pronouns and deadnames and what have you.
And it's not just gender woo-woo. In Philadelphia, Pride organizers don't want police there...even gay or lesbian police. Since when are gays and lesbians excluded from Pride? Apparently, to really fit in you also have to embrace land acknowledgments, oppose capitalism, and hang on Greta Thunburg's every word. Crikey.
The same thing happened in SF with lesbian and gay officers banned if wearing their uniforms. The "compromise" was to allow them to march as long as they did not identify who they were. We can't be scaring the people with law enforcement marching. There was major blowback on this, but for naught. I'm of the older persuasion, and my gay and lesbian friends have pretty much dropped out since the Q&T takeover. This is no longer the same event as when Harvey Milk sat on the back of a convertible as it went past my place. All the pride signaling by companies has just gotten pathetic.
What ended police participation in the Toronto Pride parade was BLM's bullying. They shut down the parade by obstructing the street one year and threatened to do it every year if the police were ever invited again. Pride folded like a cheap lawn chair. This undid decades of painstaking bridge-building with the Toronto Police after things hit a low with the Emmanual Jacques murder (a 12 year old murdered by homosexual prostitutes and tavern bouncers) and the bath house raids in the 1970s.
I hadn't heard of that murder of the 12 year old boy. OMG - I'm going to try to find something about that. "Pride folded like a cheap lawn chair..." well said and it did because it was IMO.
The LGB Alliance(UK) polled its members and found that a large majority rejected being linked with the Ts and did not wish to use the term 'queer'.
Same on both counts. "Queer" shiuld require reconstructive dentistry and "trans" is mental illness,
Pronpouns and deadnames have nothing to do with gay; that's "trans" shit and we have no more to do with "trans" than we have to do with field mice. I completely disown everything "trans" and I am no ally, I do not support them, and their grotesque attention needs sicken me.
For that matter, I really don't have a lot of use for the "gay community" either.I went out clubbing for about 18 months in 1994-5, had at 40 the adolescence my stutter had denied me in my teens, then looked at myself in a mirror one night at The Brass Connection and said, "I'm done." I grabbed my shirt, hopped down from the loudspeaker I was sitting on, walked out and never went back.
Every night the same people, doing the same dances to music that I mostly hated ("don' want no short dick man ... don't don't don'tdon't ..."), the alcoholics standing in the same places, the aggressive sexual competition like a tribe of babboons (except babboons are prettier), the cruelty toward any man with the temerity to be over 30 ... bye. I'd had my fun, I had tons of sex but it was time to grow up.
Then in 1996 I had my start on the Internet, where I could meet men without having to put up with the drag queens and the cigarette smoke, and I was ten times as gone.
I'd rather have a world with wildlife than a second Venus,
We need a movement again for lesbian and gay rights - the right to same sex love without discrimination or stigma - not corporate advertising campaigns.
That struggle never ended, even with Obergefell, even within the United States. We don’t yet have federal civil rights protection by statute, and the Supreme Court could easily reverse itself as we have seen.
If we had already won, we would not be awash in the homophobia of gender identity ideology. We would not see the “transing away of the gay,” medicalizing lgb teens and youth claiming that their bodies are “ wrong” for their same sex attraction & noncompliance wirh sex stereotypes.
The most intense homophobia I have ever experienced was from transactivists, often straight themselves or self hating closeted homosexuals, who thought it was “bigotry” to reject males as potential partners. I lost my job over it.
It was transactivists that targeted and destroyed the heart of lesbian culture, the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, & making it possible for lesbians (or any group of women) to meet outside the presence of males.
And this fit in quite well with the corporate agenda to coopt radical social movements and thereby push women and lesbians and gay men way back.
It is past time we take our movement back from corporate America who were never our friends.
Quote: "The most intense homophobia I have ever experienced was from transactivists."
This is something I've tried to explain to friends -- gay, lesbian, and straight -- who are all aboard the trans train. It's exhausting. They just don't get it.
And I'm terribly sorry to hear you lost your job by not bowing to the trans religion. That's another thing I've tried to tell friends -- that people are losing their jobs over this stuff. I just get rolled eyes and, in some cases, the end of friendships.
Yep, I agree! I was banned from my local LGB... online group because I was labeled a TERF. Even though I never talked about my personal feelings in the group about the Trans issues regarding children, (I just wanted to meet other local Lesbians to socialize!), someone reported that I posted anti-Trans sentiments on my personal FB page, so I was banned without any notice or discussion, as "a danger to Trans members."
It's appalling. Straight-up suppression of speech. The opposite of liberal.
Anything other than complete and utter adoration of Trans is considered "dangerous".
Yes, you are either in total compliance or the enemy (worth destroying)! I've been threatened with physical violence online many times, simply because I wanted to talk about the issues. Rather than frighten me, it certainly spurred my determination to engage and fight this bs with all my energy!
You didn't 'belong'.
The more this happens, the better.
I feel compassion for you, but fortunately, you are in the minority. You may choose to hate, I will not.
Who is hating who?
I think that when transmaniacs reject those of us who espouse realities, like the binary, immutable nature of sex, it highlights the inherent incompatibility between homosexuals and transgenderism.
Which is a good thing.
SO many gay men in corporate America! So how did this happen? I'm so sorry you lost your job for standing up for yourself and sanity in general. I hope it turned out to be for the best in the long run? I really hope so because courageous people deserve to have the red carpet rolled out for them. At the very least I hope you feel at peace knowing you are of strong character. xo ♥️
Yes, it did. I got my bit of justice through a lawsuit and now my own law practice but I am still being ostracized.
That's a HUGE win IMO. I feel your pain about being ostracized - we're all having to find our "people." There's no safety or benefit in being around or with people who would do such things but it is painful to be cast out, for sure. Also, things are changing pretty rapidly. Don't be surprised when you find the ostracizers coming to you for help.
Because men are entitled under violent patriarchy.
Especially white men.
Being gay has never stopped white men from climbing lucrative career ladders.
But being female has certainly stopped women.
I'm talking about you, Robert Quartermain, Tim Gill, and Jon Stryker.
Of course, yes indeed. I was trying to make a statement about how influential gay men are complicit but even so, sometimes they step up to the plate and it's so rare, it demands a red carpet parade.
Yes, they certainly are. I have been completely demoralized by seeing how many gay men I thought were our allies are actually hostile to girls' and women's rights. This Trans moral panic has been a painful eye-opener in so many ways.
Meanwhile, lesbians and straight women step up to the plate all day long every single day, and nobody ever gives us a red carpet parade.
I know, I know only too well.
I haven't been to a Pride event since the 1990s. With the advent of gay marriage, I don't think Pride is necessary. We can still lobby for our rights and will probably be more successful without all the hoopla. But I am someone who believes that being proud of being a lesbian is like being proud of the fact that I have blue eyes. So I may just be a curmudgeon.
To whom you are attracted sexually is purely subjective and therefore cannot reasonably be contested by an outside observer.
Where you decide to live your life on a spectrum of superficial, stereotypical male to female attributes (and we all do) is also purely subjective and similarly cannot be questioned.
However, your biological sex reflects an objective reality which cannot be changed by your subjective personal view and futile attempts to do so can result in serious health impacts to you as well as harms to members of the sex you are impersonating (primarily women).
Others who are grounded in objective reality should never be forced to accept your subjective version of your actual biological sex.
Finally, it's past time for the LGB community to separate themselves from the trans activists who are trying to take away the rights of women to fairness in sports and to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. They also advocate for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children many of whom would grow up gay.
Their actions are evil and the
understandable negative reaction to the harm they are causing is spilling over to innocent people who are just going about their business, marrying and leading their lives.
Any position based on "subjective" has already failed, The word should be stricken stricken from language, It's poison
To my recollection (of my own experience in Chicago) the Pride Parade (one single Sunday afternoon in late June) was a “Party with a Purpose.” It was our celebration for ourselves in our community (in Chicago what we used to be able to call Boys Town before the gender woo). It was Mardi Gras with a message. “I Am What I Am,” “I Will Survive,” “We Are Family,” etc. were our anthems.
Gay Pride has metastasized into a month of in your face marketing madness, the parade itself has become inclusive to the point of parody. It is a “Queer” St Patrick’s Day where everybody gets to be a little gay! SMH. There’s been a heterosexual takeover in the form of the Gender Identity theory where one’s entry ticket is as easy as declaring oneself “non binary” (a made up identity that means you have both masculine and feminine traits).
If the withdrawal of the corporate dollars brings about a simplification and a return to our LGB roots…I am all for it. My guess is that we LGB folk will need to choose a different day for our own celebration and leave the end of June to the T+ crowd.
When I speak if heterosexual I am speaking of the conveniently non-binary or the bisexuals who never actually have homosexual encounters…they’re theoretical bisexuals because they think they could be, maybe, some day… yes, the autogynophiles are mostly heterosexual which is why they want to be “lesbians”
I don't believe that any "trans" person is heterosexual, except the AGP predators and fake lesbians....and maybe the ones who dissemble as trans or non-binary just to get invited to a party. Yes, there is that. Otherwise, "transwomen" are gay men.
The majority of transgenderist men are straight AGPs.
That's why they're all over lesbian spaces. They're just straight men perving on the male privilege of dominating women who want nothing to do with them. And they are the leaders of this transgenderism lobby. Look at James Pritzker, Long Chu, Joseph Lavery--the most powerful and disgusting of transgenderist men.
The minority of transgenderist men are gay men chock full of misogyny and internalized homophobia.
The rich gay men financing this transgenderism lobby don't even care about any of it except the money--and the fact that they're privileged white men who hate girls and women.
Schools, elementary and up, are still planning to send contingents of students and staff to Pride parades this year. Sad to predict that the scenes of children watching age-inappropriate kink will cause a conservative backlash against all LGB rights. If extremists continue to dominate, the center cannot hold.
As The Onion said back when it was funny:
https://theonion.com/gay-pride-parade-sets-mainstream-acceptance-of-gays-bac-1819566014/
Wow! Right on the money!
Written 2001.
LAGALABATATA 🤣 If that doesn't hit the nail on the head!
Back when we could say things in public that the transgenderist Nazis won't allow us to say now.
❤️ "Things fall apart ... the centre cannot hold" - thanks for that lovely reminder of Yeats' poem The Second Coming and Joni Mitchell's beautiful rendition thereof 🙏📖🎶
LOL... What 'center'?
I shared similar concerns, especially regarding how gender identity has usurped sexual orientation as the focus of pride events and within what’s now LGBTQ+ activism generally, in my April 4 column "The Backlash Against LGBTQ+ Is Real" - https://substack.com/home/post/p-160602533
I have long wondered why anyone would have any "pride" in lying to children and facilitating their mutilation. Why encouraging public displays of male sexual fetishes and paraphilias is something to be "proud" of. And why sexing up the feminine to the point where girls and young women reject their own bodies, is a reason for public celebration.
Any movement based on motivated ignorance is suspect and the whole transgender enterprise should not be proud that their cult is founded on artifice pretending to be authenticity: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/motivated-ignorance-the-secret-to
Every good cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket (Eric Hoffer)
In London it was a march at first, but it would be nicer if there was something to do at the end so we got a stage and a few stalls. But then the big West End bars wanted tents, so really it became a cruising zone and attracted men with zero politics… and got bigger. And all this got expensive so more stalls, and then sponsorship, and bigger and better stages. We went from disco acts to huge stars. The last Pride I went to, I waded through tons of trash people had strewn everywhere as the Pet Shop Boys played, and spent hours trying to get home. Pride had become a profitable juggernaut you couldn’t stop.
Pride becomes hubris. We have actually achieved all the equality we wanted here. We called it Pride because we were told being gay was shameful, but that’s stopped and tbh I am embarrassed at how young ‘queers’ are using the political situation to demand everything and bully people. Interesting to see the corporate sponsors withdraw, but it must be awkward when people are performing extreme sex acts in front of kids wearing rainbow t-shirts… with your logo there in the picture.
I've just heard about Eric Hoffer and purchased one of the books about him. I learn a lot on these pages.
"in *FRONT* of kids" 🙏🙏🙏
I and a group of LGB WA Staters wrote this as a protest letter to Seattle Pride laying out all of the problems with "LGBTQIA2S+" activism. It's a long read, but the point was to put in a plethora of links supporting our claims so they can't pretend they haven't had opportunities to understand the problems people have with this activism, especially around medicalizing kids. They are only doubling down here in WA, FTR.
https://thehomoarchy.substack.com/p/letter-sent-to-seattle-pride-highlighting
I read your entire letter and it was perfect. Well documented, well supported, well argued. It's saved in my archives for the day I can get through to my gay son that T doesn't necessarily have his best interests at heart. We got into a bit of a fight about how the gay community is being pushed aside. He won't look at it.
"Pride... (has).. become meaningless to the very people it was created for."
I have not been to a Gay Pride march in over fifteen years because there has not been a Gay Pride march in over fifteen years.
Pride's death will be our resurrection.
I marched in 1975. I watched from the sidewalk in 1976. I never attended again.
Armpit-faced guys in sadomasochism gear pantomiming analingus on parade floats.
It ain't me.
Great article, well said! I too am an "old, old L" who stopped going to pride celebrations some 20 years ago as I was tired of looking at mostly naked men waving themselves around and promoting different sexual kinks. This wasn't my pride, this was guys advertising for sex. This wasn't about pride at all, in my opinion. I agree that we should think about what we want and need in the LGB community and start over. Not notoriety, not fetish-worship, not promoting any other agenda other than to educate and support our LGB kin of all ages.
I might be missing something here, but to me, people were always people regardless of who they were attracted to. Sexual attraction has nothing to do with the character of a person. I don't think of my cousin as my lesbian cousin, I think of her as my cousin. Were she prosecuted for simply being who she was, I would not be ok with that. That's what i understand the original purpose of Pride was: to let gay and lesbians live their lives without discrimination.
Now, I agree it has turned to a merchandising event. I last attended Pride in Columbus, Ohio about 8 years ago. It was nothing but corporate b.s. and virtue signaling. Nothing like Pride I saw in the 90s. I agree that sponsors are pulling out because of backlash. People absolutely have lumped this child gender nonsense with everything else, and it's unfortunate. For the record, I am absolutely disgusted by children being fed the entire gender thing. I support adults living their lives, but leave kids the hell out of it. If a child is gay, lesbian, or bi or other, no one will need to tell them that. They will know. No one told my cousin. No one told my great uncle. They just knew.
I agree Pride needs to go back to a simple, non-corporate event. The heart and soul are lost now.
"People are people"
Wow, really?
And women are women.
Who knew?
Corporate sponsors didn’t sink you,you sank you by betraying the Lesbians,little girls and the women of this country and hitching your wagon to the trans freaks who’s hatred of women was only bested by their arrogance.Men’s fetish culture was not something I would have traded so much good will and advancement for.It will take years for people to return to opening up their hearts after the mutilation of so many children and families.