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2015-02-21 01:13 4011722 Anonymous (1371371604-ten-of-thousands-celebrate-gay-pride-in-rome_2158668.jpg 800x533 81kB)
What is /lgbt/'s opinion on "gay pride"? Opinions on gay pride parades?
1 min later 4011728 Anonymous
>>4011722
They're a good place to stealth poz unsuspecting qts
2 min later 4011734 Anonymous
Follow up question: was there ever a time that you feared being associated with the wider gay culture? Did this delay the acceptance of yourself?
3 min later 4011739 Anonymous
>>4011722
It WAS a necessity.
It's now a over-commercialized annoyance, good time though in Ireland. It's more of a festival than a parade of fetish gear. Good place to hook up too
3 min later 4011740 Anonymous
It's really, really gay.
1 hours later 4012088 Anonymous
They are absolutely shameful and I never wan to attend one, If you have an attraction to the same sex fine, but that doesn't mean all of your interests and behaviors change over night when you "come out" I just believe love who you love and don't worry about orientation labels and changing how you act to "fit in". Be your self and dont shove it in peoples faces because that is why bigots hate us so much
1 hours later 4012158 Anonymous
>>4011722
I go every year and its fucking awesome. I've taken some friends with me before that claimed to be "straight" and after 3 days of pride admitted to being gay and found their now girl friend. respect the rainbow.
1 hours later 4012207 Anonymous
pretty good place to get laid. I'm mtf so there's not a whole lot of times when I'm around a bunch of people who would dtf, especially girls. I usually go to whatever the trans pride subset is hanging and hook up with a couple other girls. And sometimes I even make friends too. It's kinda great just having a day to go nuts and party for 24 hours.
I honestly don't understand the prude lgbt people who are like "oh it's awful, makes the community look terrible, fucking sluts". Like, it's one day a year where it's socially acceptable for you to go basically fuck in public and be surrounded by hot people who are basically naked. Shit's like sexy christmas.
2 hours later 4012360 Anonymous
Despise them.
2 hours later 4012414 Anonymous
>>4012360
This
2 hours later 4012452 Anonymous
Seem fun, but I've never been to one myself. I think people get too whiny over their existence. Loosen up, live and let live, and all that jazz.
2 hours later 4012492 Anonymous (Gay+Pride.+I+have+nothing+against+gays+but+the+parade_27a620_3832874.png 640x1200 486kB)
2 hours later 4012503 Anonymous
You know, one day you judgmental folks will wake up and realize that you'd rather be friends with the faggots than placate the bigots. They'll hate you whether you're an Uncle Tom or a queen. And God forbid, maybe you'll get laid.
2 hours later 4012505 Anonymous
>>4012492
I don't think the gays that boohoo about wanting to appear normal and the gays that don't give a fuck are really the same people.
2 hours later 4012524 Anonymous
That one /pol/ comic that had a character saying "why do people paint gays as crazy sexual deviants?" then running around in drag holding up signs and yelling was a surprisingly accurate representation of pride parades. They're stupid and don't make the LGBT community look good- just obnoxious.
2 hours later 4012527 Anonymous
>>4012492
What the fuck is "normal"? Jesus christ, stop being a whiney little bitch and be yourself--whether that's a wrist flicking faggot, a butch "all american" macho man, a femme or a queen. Who gives a shit. Stop living your life for other people, especially people who hate you. If you think living in a fucking house, playing "honey, I'm home" is going to get you any closer to gaining their acceptance--or your own, for that matter--than you're sadly mistaken. Because guess what? No matter how much you crave that straight comformist "normal" existence, you ain't gonna get it. Tough shit.
Instead, you get the freedom to express yourself outside of drawn out BORING boundaries and a community that encourages those attributes, not conformity or fear-based control.
Haven't you had enough fucking shame yet? Wake the fuck up.
2 hours later 4012541 Anonymous
>>4012527
Spoken like a true faggot.
2 hours later 4012542 Anonymous
>>4012527
u mad fagbro?
2 hours later 4012549 Anonymous
>>4012527
What's normal? How about keeping your private life private? That's what most people do. I absolutely think it's wrong to discriminate on the basis of gender, sexuality, etc. I also think it's absolutely retarded to have a fucking parade to celebrate what you like doing with your genitals. Maybe I should arrange a blonde pride march for all the men who prefer fucking blonde women?
Get over yourself. You're not a precious little snowflake. No one gives a shit what you do with your genitals.
2 hours later 4012552 Anonymous
>>4012542
u out fagbro?
2 hours later 4012566 Anonymous
>>4011722
Why is this thread continually reposted?
Every time it results in a tired shitfest with the same tired arguments on both sides. I can't even read this thread without yawning.
Oh wait, shitposting, that explains it.
2 hours later 4012593 Anonymous
>>4012549
See, that's your problem, and that's why you're still so ashamed of who you are: you think that your sexuality, or anyone's for that matter, is as simple as what or where you dick goes.
Nah, my dude, it's an entire journey, and you'll find that when you come out. There's a lot of bullshit, like the shame that you're spewing out, that presents itself when you decide to live authentically--to stop hiding. That's a commitment.
And here's the thing, a lot of people stop hiding and put on fucking feather headdresses. Others still wear their NY Giant's Jerseys. Big fucking deal. Who cares what these people wear?
Ask yourself this: how similar do you sound to those bigots, the ones you say "hate us" because of these parades? Are you that much different? Are you ANYTHING like the people in the parades? If not, then it's you, not the bigots, who need to stop defining yourself based on THEIR image. That's your bad dude.
Again, when you come out (of the closet or your self-imposed shame), you'll see that being gay isn't putting your dick in an asshole. It's becoming a man, it's being proud of who you are, sexually, spiritually, personally. Fuck those people, seriously. They're mostly closet cases anyways.
2 hours later 4012597 Anonymous (1396501686393.jpg 500x705 82kB)
>>4012527
there is a difference between being ashamed of your sexuality and being obnoxious for the sake of getting attention
2 hours later 4012607 Anonymous
>>4012597
You're the type of person who points out the black panthers and fails to hear a word of "I have a dream." What a shame.
2 hours later 4012618 Anonymous
>>4012607
if you really want to conflate marching through the street performing fellatio on a 75 year old aids queen with the "i have a dream" speech by all means go ahead, but you will look fucking retarded.
2 hours later 4012629 Anonymous
>>4012593
If you make your sexuality your defining trait, you're going to be annoying. The vast majority of people simply don't give a shit. It's just bigots at one end of the scale and you "pride" dipsticks at the other. And frankly, you're both irritating as fuck to listen to.
3 hours later 4012672 Anonymous
>>4012618
I'm not conflating the two. I'm pointing out that your choice to reduce the entire event to the behavior of a fringe is a shame. You choose to focus on the dildo-prancing queen than on all the people dressed in fairly acceptable attire, just happy to hold their partner's hand without worrying about getting their brains bashed in.
Also, ask yourself if you hate that dildo-prancing queen. If you do, then why? If your answer is "because he's the reason bigots hate us," then you need to take a step back and reconsider your bullshit. The nigga likes dildos. That's it. Nothing to do with you. And believe it or not, nobody's sitting around talking about gay pride parades. Nobody gives a shit. Figure out where that voice is coming from, because it's probably located within you. And you don't deserve that voice. It wasn't your creation so let it fucking go. ENJOY YOUR LIFE. You might not agree with him, his dress or how he chooses to celebrate the event, but at least we know one thing, he's not ashamed of himself and he's having a good time.
3 hours later 4012696 Anonymous
>>4012629
Sexuality isn't at all my defining trait. Coming out gave me the opportunity to examine my ENTIRE existence, from spirituality to sexuality. It allowed me to explore who the fuck I was and stop living for other people. Because listening to those voices in your head, the ones that tell you what to wear and how to act, the ones that tell you what kind of "gay" to be, aren't things that you shouldn't have inside of you. You need to purge those. By doing that, you're sexuality actually plays less of a role in your life. Jesus christ, in the closet, your sexuality is MOST DEFINITELY your definitely characteristic. "What if someone finds out?" "What if I tell someone?" "What if I flick my wrist wrong?" "Take a shit the wrong way?" "Like a movie?" That sounds defining to me. But it also sounds cowardly. And maybe that guy, the one with all the dildos, sets you off, but it's not because his existence is something to be abhorred; it's because he makes you realize what it is that you're not doing: living as yourself, whatever that means or whatever that might be.
3 hours later 4012726 Anonymous
>>4012549
>No one gives a shit what you do with your genital
>A parade to bring awareness is damaging [problematic]
>what is selective media, camera shots and tabloids?
Seriously, did you just got into this gay shit yesterday? Do you think this is medias' first time of warping things out of context "look look, that group of 24 guys are exhibitionists!" Out of the fucking 2400+ people who are regularly dressed and able to hold hands with their partner without some asshole jumping them.
Do you even Carnival, concerts, underground parties or rode a cruise ship? What a purist.
>>4012629
Yeah gay people totally made it about defining yourself with sexuality along and not the homophobes who keep making it about genitals when your trying to explain the legal [economic+ medical] ramifications about being gay. It's absolutely the gay making it about genitals in every discussion...fucking really?
3 hours later 4012730 Anonymous
>>4012672
Who says I hate him? I just find him extremely obnoxious and recognize that he is an attention whore. Half of your post is just illogical bullshit "u dont deserf that voith gurll" uh no just because you don't like getting shut down doesn't mean I'm going to stop.
Again explain or shut the fuck up. Where are you getting this bullshit that you either
A. hate your sexuality
B. have to be a flaming faggot pride parade aids queen
4 hours later 4013024 Anonymous
>>4011722
They can be fun. The people are sometimes too overly obnoxious and I think the whole thing's too commercialized, but pride can be fun.
4 hours later 4013083 Anonymous
>>4011722
Last year was my first time going and I had a blast. I finally accepted that I am Bisexual and I need to start cutting for the sluts.
5 hours later 4013115 Anonymous
>>4012730
When I said, "You don't deserve that voice," I wasn't coming at you like, "listen, gurl, you ain't earned dat lisp." I meant that you don't deserve the internalized, potentially homophobic voice--the one that tells you that certain types of gay people are acceptable while other types are not. That voice takes time to get rid of. And no, I don't think any of us deserve to hear that. If that takes dancing with crazy, mutli-colored dildos strapped to your body, then more power to you. If that means hanging out in sports bars, again, more power to you.
As for the second part, I'm not sure what you're asking me to explain, and I don't really understand the A) and the B). I'll answer the best I can, though... No, I'm pretty proud and open about my sexuality--not perfect, especially not some days, but then again, neither are straight people. I do the best I can with what I've got, and I'd say that most days that's pretty damned good. As for B) I'm pretty butch, honestly, and that's caused me a lot of confusion myself, particularly in terms of how I (a "straight-acting" gay man) fit into the gay community. Well, guess what the answer was? Any fucking way I want. I'll wear my relatively plain button up shirt with blue levis and black chucks to pride and I'll hold my boyfriend's hand while I do it. That's my gay. That's the best I can do.
7 hours later 4013676 Anonymous
>>4011722
From what i can tell, they just perpetuate stereotypes
9 hours later 4013872 Anonymous (cat looking at 4chan.jpg 640x478 45kB)
>>4011722
It's a brazilian carnaval where men also dress as sluts.
9 hours later 4013887 Anonymous
>>4011722
They have people who look like this, so I will just feel really suicidal. Going to London Pride may actually drive me to get the courage to kill myself.
Maybe I should go.
9 hours later 4013893 Anonymous
I've always had kind of mixed reactions to them.
The sponsors are typically pharmaceutical companies and alcohol companies.
Often times during the day when the family friendly events are going on there's lots of happy speeches and events trying to help gay rights, pharmaceutical companies handing out hiv brochures, etc.
Then as soon as it's dark it's all sponsored by bars, clubs, etc. all for the purpose of hooking up. So all that work during the day goes to waste because it's just a more elaborate and drawn out form of grindr.
9 hours later 4013901 Anonymous (give that man a cookie.jpg 261x181 18kB)
>>4012527
11 hours later 4014106 Anonymous (large.xr5r190sk9n3.jpg 300x272 19kB)
Some shit you should be ashamed of, and no amount of pride is gonna fix that.
It's kind like fat acceptance. You know you should work harder at being monogamous and conservative, but that's hard so you might as well pretend being a flamer is something to be proud of.
11 hours later 4014112 Anonymous
>>4013901
Presumably one laced with polonium.
11 hours later 4014130 Anonymous
>>4014112
He's actually right though, living your life in a specific way for a society's acceptance when those people never did anything for you is ridiculous.
11 hours later 4014142 Anonymous
>>4014130
Not about getting society's acceptance, it's about not acting like an idiot.
11 hours later 4014158 Anonymous
>>4014142
Please people act like idiots all the time, if movies like 50 shades of grey are any indication, straight people also don't keep their "private" life private either.
12 hours later 4014253 Anonymous
I think its fucking shameful and that's because of the kind of gay people who go to such parades. I have never got along well with these (most often super bitchy) queens that virtually reduce themselves to their sexuality. Being connected to such people makes me cringe.
13 hours later 4014405 Anonymous
I like seeing hot, half naked boys prancing around in public. I approve.
14 hours later 4014569 Anonymous
>>4011722
Theyre the reason gays arent taken seriously.
16 hours later 4014750 Anonymous (1423479039855.jpg 429x607 62kB)
>>4014569
Serious enough to make the GOP hyperventilate.
16 hours later 4014774 Anonymous
Pointless. Having pride in something you cannot control is stupid. Have pride in personal accomplishments, or even in the accomplishments of your loved ones, but having pride for being gay is like having pride for having blue eyes.
16 hours later 4014788 Anonymous
I would go to the pride in San Diego, but only to see the Helix Boys
16 hours later 4014791 Anonymous (business-cat-meme-generator-you-re-amazing-keep-this-up-and-you-ll-get-a-raise-b5b9e3.jpg 510x510 32kB)
>>4012527
>>4012593
>>4013115
16 hours later 4014798 Anonymous
>>4014774
You mean like not being ashamed in a society that wishes to spread propaganda that you have to hate an innate part of yourself?
Let's roll the clock before any of the Matthew Shepard's law, go on be gay, go stand outside lobbies politely asking for equality and anti discrimination laws as though a fuckton of people didn't do that before. People like you, who benefit off the backs of others and bitch about it are some of the vilest shit known.
"Don't worry, when you ask under their terms, hopefully they"ll listen !1!!"
Seriously what a stupid notion to hold.
16 hours later 4014809 Anonymous
>>4014798
go back to tumblr you feminist shill.
gay rights are an inevitability.
17 hours later 4014836 Anonymous
>>4014809
>wahh gay rights in USA
>wahh people aren't ashamed of their sexuality
>wahh anti gay propaganda doesn't work in USA
>I wish we can undo all this because I hate pride parades
Not sure how you got feminist or tumblr from my post but you are clinically retarded if you think if the global community is as gay accepting. You can whine as much as you like all because you didn't have to face half the shit people who made it the way it is currently, you're most difficult trial not beyond "tumblr is making up shit again!"
You know being gay is still illegal everywhere else, heck even where I live you sheltered fuck.
17 hours later 4014843 Anonymous
>>4014569
Actually it's the exact opposite.
Before gay pride parades existed, the idea of taking gay people seriously as legitimate people was so foreign that people didn't even think to joke about it.
There had been political movements by respectable and businesslike gays and lesbians for years. In all that time of them quietly campaigning in an orderly fashion, they accomplished absolutely nothing. Then Stonewall and gay pride happened.
Now, after only a couple decades they've managed to change the opinion of most of the US. When all the old diehard bigots die off then gay rights will be as universally accepted as black rights.
All because some people ran around in the streets wearing a suit made of rainbow dildos.
17 hours later 4014846 Anonymous
>large crowds
>loud nosies
>loud people
>people being obnoxious
>there's always that one guy/girl/whatever that embodies every negative stereotype about gays ever
>some inevitable clusterfuck of saw shit
>exhibitionism in public
It's like god created a nightmare just for me
17 hours later 4014851 Anonymous
>>4014843
>All because some people ran around in the streets wearing a suit made of rainbow dildos.
Yes, that really is what did it. Not the public at large seeing more people coming out and realizing that gay people were just regular people like them after all.
This is flaming-queen delusion at its most potent.
17 hours later 4014865 Anonymous
How much people in ITT actually attended a gay pride? What is it like on the ground?
17 hours later 4014873 Anonymous
>>4014851
The last line was something known as a joke, in case you are unfamiliar with the concept.
17 hours later 4014880 Anonymous
>>4011722
Minority groups eventually adopt the stereotypes once used against them.
It's the GLBT community's way of reinforcing those stereotypes, thus setting back their progression decades. Similar things happened with the black community adopting racist notions about them as truths.
So it became bad to "act white" i.e. to be literate, peaceful, polite. The gay community is doing the same thing, making it bad to "act straight" i.e. not having HIV, being capable of monogamy, not being shallow.
17 hours later 4014884 Anonymous
>>4011722
where i'm from it's really tame, not full of naked people or dudes in fetish gear. there's a pretty relaxed parade to a park ten minutes away, where there's basically a craft fair with food vendors and live music.
hundreds of people, gay and straight, turn out to sit along the parade route and cheer everyone on, and there are usually like 4-5 protesters with "gays live in sin" signs outside the local church, whom everyone ignores.
I've never been to a "big" pride festival so idk what the feel is around those, but i honestly really love the one in my town. feels like a holiday, and everyone is always really cheerful
i might go to new york pride this year, which would be a much different experience, but honestly, i don't care what happens, and I gon't get the people who whinge about pride parades ruining their chance at seeming "normal"
it's like st. patty's day. nobody honestly thinks that's what being irish is all about, it's just an excuse to get day drunk and walk around in a ridiculous outfit
17 hours later 4014983 Anonymous (bnb.png 199x218 100kB)
>>4014106
>conservative
>good
>tayswift pic
17 hours later 4014986 Anonymous
>>4012492
Pride isn't about showing straight people how straight and anachronistically puritanical we are like it's 1799. It's about being ourselves and shoving it in your face because you cannot do shit about it in a free country with freedom of expression.
Fuck you, and you're welcome for the tax revenue, military service and countless other positive things LGBT people provide our respective nations.
18 hours later 4014996 Anonymous
>>4014851
It was as much for everybody else as it was for gay's and probably more. Actually not being afraid for once. Stonewall was the start, but "fuck it, I'm going out and I'm doing it out" was fucking huge and the real point of those things. And as retarded as some people look, it means kids growing today know of these things where before they might have thought they were the only one so different.
18 hours later 4015005 Anonymous
>>4013115
This was so perfect.
18 hours later 4015015 Anonymous
>>4014865
Really fun. Everyone is nice, usually drunk and having a good time. It's a public party for gay people. If you like hot, fun, generally sociable people of the same sex, or really any flavor of the rainbow, it's the place to go.
The exhibitionists are fun too. It's all part of the zany pageantry, and pretty much everyone has a smile on their face. Why be mad? Or bitter? Or confrontational? It's a grand celebration of love.
18 hours later 4015050 Anonymous
>>4011722
Disgusting. Consumerist. American centric.
18 hours later 4015061 Anonymous
>>4015015
Because it's the incarnation of every gay stereotype that homophobes believe in, produced by gays, for gays.
18 hours later 4015094 Anonymous
>>4011722
>>4011728
>>4012158
>>4012207
>>4014986
>>4012527
>>4012597
>>4012672
>>4013115
>>4012726
>>4012593
>>4012696
>>4014983
>>4014130
>>4014158
>>4014750
>>4014843
>>4014798
>>4014836
>>4015015
>>4014884
You faggots disgust me.
I don't hate those marches and parades because they are non-inclusive, and that unless you're extremely fit, a hard partying drinker and drug abuser, or a narcissist, you'll feel totally out of place; and it's not that it reinforces stereotypes; it's not that it's expensive, and silly, and antiquated, and shrill.
My problem is that Gay Pride is meant to celebrate the lgbt community, and the entire event seems modeled after a fraction of what gay people were like in 1983.
We can serve in the military. We can get married. We can have children and families. We're in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. We're on TV, in movies, and in video games. We're consumers and employers and neighbors and relatives. We do all sorts of things - both good and bad - that Americans in general do.
So why does Gay Pride only show us as vapid, shallow, slutty morons who can't hold their liquor?
18 hours later 4015132 Anonymous
>>4015094
Correct, gay pride isn't about celebrating gay history, it's about spreading HIV.
19 hours later 4015170 Anonymous
>>4014846
this
19 hours later 4015195 Anonymous
>>4015094
>I read into what I want to see
>New York parade = Texas parade = every other parade in other parts in the world
Did you miss the part where every parade isn't the same in other parts of a state or country? Is it surprising that media is still focusing on those that do have exhibitionists on there, is it still surprising that out of all the floats and different supporting organizations, including the firefighters, police departments and religious sectors who are regularly dressed that media ignores them and still focuses on the fetish gear prancers?
Look I've never gone a parade but I've attend carnival every single year and there are dudes who are wearing wedding gowns and assortment of stockings, panties and bras who are never shown within the scoop of the media attention simply because it's the Caribbean and gay rights are still illegal. The media focus is always on the naked lady out of the 700+ costume paraders because it's what puritans such as yourself will buy into as the "decadence of society". Do you even propaganda?
19 hours later 4015207 Anonymous
I don't care about it, but I also don't take it seriously. I really doubt LGBT rights can benefit from the most superficial individuals in our community parading around half-naked because they get off on the attention. It's just not a suitable medium for serious rights demonstrators to participate in.
As for what society thinks of it: It's pointless to worry about appeasing the status quo. People who are inclined to harbor prejudice would find some other way to justify their negative attitudes, regardless of whether or not gay pride existed. Prejudice is more likely caused by environmental factors like parents pushing it on their children from a very early age, or these /pol/ Hitler youth types who join hate groups because they think being a part of an exclusive group gives meaning to their otherwise fucked up lives.
19 hours later 4015212 Anonymous
>>4015207
Gay pride parades aren't put on for vain middle class whiners like you. They're deliberately outlandish because it garners media attention and spreads the message that somewhere in the world people are celebrating being gay. For closeted kids growing up in backwoods redneck communities these parades may make them realize that they don't have to hate themselves just because their parents do. If you're offended by pride parades, sorry but you're being a selfish cunt. No one's putting them on for shitstains like you.
19 hours later 4015251 Anonymous
>They're deliberately outlandish because it garners media attention and spreads the message that somewhere in the world people are celebrating being gay
They're outlandish because only attention whores want to dance around on floats in speedos.
Wasn't there a documentary about this a while back? I think it was on Logo. They interviewed all these muscle daddies who were worried about aging out of the club scene, because they built their entire self-esteem around getting fit and having people gawk at them. It was quite depressing.
I honestly don't care what sort of lifestyle anyone else wants to live. Really, it has no bearing on my own life. I'm just calling it like I see it.
20 hours later 4015301 Anonymous (1403590847873.gif 300x210 506kB)
>>4015212
except they are. gay pride parades sold out ages ago. they're nothing more than marketing opportunities for big business and local government. their tone, content, and politics is restricted to what their sponsors will allow. gay pride parades are nothing more than an opportunity for businesses and government to make money off of the lgbt community and advertise how progressive they are
20 hours later 4015356 Anonymous
>>4015251
>muscle daddies who were worried about aging out of the club scene, because they built their entire self-esteem around getting fit and having people gawk at them
This isn't an uncommon thing among people of all sexualities and gender, you realize that, right? The sheer amount of cis women who try to be this perfect model so people will love them and fawn over them is a good enough example of that.
20 hours later 4015379 Anonymous
I hate it when people go "Well it would be SO much easier for us to be accepted if we didn't have those flamboyant and decadent pride parades" - Acceptance shouldn't be conditional to avoiding flamboyance and sexuality.
That being said, I don't like Pride myself, but that's because I had one awful experience with it back when I was like 15-16 and closeted as fuck. I went there because I expected a place of comfort where I could be myself, but it was literally filled with half-naked guys playing dildo tag, which was the last thing I needed as a depressed gay teen with homophobic parents
20 hours later 4015389 Anonymous
>>4015356
I never said this was exclusive to gay people, much less am I personally offended by it. I'm not out to get anybody, least of all LGBT people. I'm a gay cis guy myself. I was just voicing my thoughts on the subject of pride events. I don't take them seriously; and if I were involved in any sort of rights movements, I would make an effort to distance myself from gay pride because of its reputation for not being a serious platform for these things.
22 hours later 4015705 Anonymous
>>4015251
>I honestly don't care what sort of lifestyle anyone else wants to live
You obviously do care if you're trying to debate it.
22 hours later 4015718 Anonymous
>>4015389
Pride parades are a serious platform for furthering the gay rights movement. Do you know why they're a fairly recent trend? You should educate yourself before talking about this stuff.
22 hours later 4015803 Anonymous
>>4011722
As good a reason to get drunk and have fun as any other parade. For most its just a day to head out and have fun.
22 hours later 4015921 Anonymous
I always feel bad for the gay children who go by and think this behaviour is applauded.How should they not feel bad about themselves when the main represetitives (or at least who present themselves as such) behave like total nutjobs?
22 hours later 4015938 Anonymous (facepalm.jpg 500x281 23kB)
>>4015094
ok i'm poster >4014884
and i'm guessing you missed the part where i sad gay pride in my area is a fucking craft fair?
it's not a giant dildo-suit blackout drunk fuckfest (which are fun in their own ways), it literally occurs in the middle of the day and you can buy homemade soap from middle-aged lesbain couples. there are also booths with information about LGBT youth and adult support groups, insurance information, health information and more. it's so unexclusive, my straight neighbors bring their kids to get sno-cones and play in the park.
>cherrypick the parts of posts that support your shitty claim
>completely ignore everything being said
22 hours later 4015944 Anonymous
>>4015251
That's what fucking parades are. Jesus Christ. And I'm sorry, but out of all the examples you want to use, you choose to focus on a small bullshit documentary on logo? As if there aren't a million counter examples of disgusting, shallow, vapid behavior from straight people on television... Cue never ending credits of every reality show ever made. They literally have shows about straight women getting plastic surgery, desperate to beat wrinkles--a few of them, in fact. Some people are shallow. It has nothing to do with sexuality or parades. Parades--like, literally, every single one--are over the top, flowers adorning shitty the beat-up pinto underneath. It's all just a show.
I swear, some of you are no better than the parents who won't let their kids watch Harry Potter because it promotes "witchcraft." It's fucking fiction, lulu brain. These people have jobs the next day.
Also, pride is an entire month, it's not just the 30 second soundbite of Johnny Ass-shake that the media chooses to show you. There are art exhibits, LGBT-themed plays and theater, movie festivals, carnivals, spoken word poetry events, social gatherings, HIV-Awareness campaigns, music, dancing, weddings. People travel--queer and straight--from all over the world to congregate in these locations, not to spread hate or fear or sadness, but to celebrate openness and possibility, to imagine a future where people aren't limited by a Mayflower-era sense of decorum. Stop letting a few rotten, closeted bigots ruin your chance for happiness. Stop watching those soundbites. Turn your telescope elsewhere and see what's out there. Maybe you might find YOUR OWN pride, whatever that may be, because we've all spent way too long celebrating the alternative: shame.
22 hours later 4015951 Anonymous
>>4015718
No they aren't. The only people that participate already accept gays.
It's fine to have parties and whatnot but claiming pride parade does anything of value is kind of silly.
If you think the families that bring kids there are going to help gay rights I highly doubt it. If the parents accept gays then they aren't indoctrinating their kids into homophobia to begin with, so parade or not, they would be just fine with gays.
23 hours later 4015964 Anonymous
>>4015938
>>4015944
It's his first time on the internet, anon truly believes the internet or media doesn't lie, it's only believable to consider everything that conflicts with his inaccuracies as shitposting.
>>4015951
see
>>4015944
>literally rewriting the definition of a parade to mean everything but a show.
Really sad and boring world you live in anon.
23 hours later 4015974 Anonymous
>>4015951
It is good because 1) it shows how many gays are out there, 2) it shows how some of the people you knew but didn't know were gay are going there and, perhaps the most important way it helps, 3) it helps people to get used to gays.
As people are somewhat afraid of gays (or rather, they're afraid of being labeled gays or becoming gay themselves), getting used to us is very important.
People don't overreact and kill gays because they "dislike" gays. They do it because they're not used to gays, are afraid of gays and overreact when they end up meeting with one. Sometimes because they feel they must to protect their own masculinity.
23 hours later 4016070 Anonymous
Sure is a lot of samefagging going on in this thread, likely by the same butthurt poster who can't accept anyone's opinion but their own.
Let's not go full blown tumblr, people.
24 hours later 4016419 Anonymous
>>4011722
They can make for a fun day out and you dont get as many skangers giving you dirty looks for holding your boyfriends hand.
24 hours later 4016458 Anonymous
They'd be alright if they weren't complete degenerate whore-fests. Too many people already associate homosexuality with vulgarity, something they need to shelter their children from. We don't need to reinforce it.
27 hours later 4017048 Anonymous
>>4014836
I don't give a fuck about international fags because I'm an American fag. If you have a problem with your shithole country then leave it or change it.
27 hours later 4017058 Anonymous
>>4014843
Stonewall would have never happened in the first place if not for the respectable and businesslike gays whose lobbying allowed the Stonewall Inn to exist so all the derelict loser fags had a place to hang around and break the law.
27 hours later 4017076 Anonymous
>>4017048
beautiful
28 hours later 4017156 Anonymous
>>4017058
>respectable and businesslike gays
Stonewall had mafia ties so...
29 hours later 4017462 Anonymous
necessary in conservative cities for sure.
31 hours later 4017792 Anonymous (1422753341728.gif 255x255 260kB)
Completely unnecessary, and I live in conservative Texas. I don't need to be "proud" of being gay. I am who I am, and at he end to the day after a long day at work, I come home to my boyfriend just like any other couple. We go to bed together, wake up next to each other, go on dates together, and have amazing moments with each other, even after 5 years together. I don't need to go march in parade with the most extreme parts of the LGBT population to feel good about myself, or make me feel like I'm apart of some "community". I'm not apart of the LGBTQIAGTAV community. I don't need to be. I'm very thankful for the people who did march and fight in things like Stonewall, and groups like ACTUP and GMHC, even if I don't have HIV. They are the real heroes, not some faggot marching around looking for a hookup. The people who actually fight for rights earn my respect. I would never participate in a "pride" parade, but I would join other people in the LGBT population for a march on Washington for my rights, or different stand-ins or various mean so civil disobedience. I am who I am, and I don't need a sort of "nationalistic" feeling for being gay. I don't need to hide who I am, as I never really "came out", but I don't need to have pride either. I'd rather simply live along side of everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, rather than being "proud" or think I'm somehow more than someone else because I take it up the ass.
36 hours later 4018229 Anonymous
>>4011722
Gay parades are fine and moderate, except for exceptions like the AIDS-infested shithole called socal and some other major cities
54 hours later 4022023 Anonymous
>>4011734
The fact that the wider culture involves parading yourself in public in your undies is what makes me fear being associated with the culture. That shit belongs in the bedroom, and frankly, I can understand why /pol/ hates us. Fucking degenerates pushing their crotches in public.
54 hours later 4022066 Anonymous
>>4017156
I wanna see some sources on this because if it's true, fucking rad/interesting....
55 hours later 4022262 Anonymous
>>4022066
Most day bars back then were criminally owned. They were already breaking the law to begin with, so why not cater to an illegal niche?
Also IIRC the raid on Stonewall that caused the riots was actually intended to catch Mafia members, the fact that it was a gay bar was a coincidence.
56 hours later 4022334 Anonymous
oh boo-hoo the parades are sexual in nature... it's almost like they're for a sexual orientation.
oh no men are walking around in speedos. i'm glad public places like beaches don't condone that behavior.
oh no homosexuals are making out. totally not cool. it's not like straight people are making out everywhere else...
face it. the average pride parade isn't unlike your average party. seems like most of you guys are just allergic to fun or something. enjoy /pol/ shitting down your throat.
56 hours later 4022408 Anonymous
>>4015938
Sure it is, and while all that is happening, group of poz faggots are having and orgy next door.
>>4015964
And how to you know that he isn't lying on the internet, you dick for brain?
>m-muh we're not sex addicts and drug abusers
57 hours later 4022456 Anonymous
>>4022334
>you either are a closeted self-hating neo-nazi faggot /pol/-tard
>or a piss swilling cum licking degenerate tumblr sjw cunt
Projecting much?
57 hours later 4022553 Anonymous
>>4012088
Here here!
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