I think we can come to some middle ground. You're looking at the 1% pulling the strings, I'm looking at the gays next door who want to live their lives in peace.
You're right that the 1% wants to push LGBTQXYZ ideology in order to normalize that which healthy people find appalling. I'm with you in that observation.
I'm right that the average gay who observed actual injustices such as the targeting that precipitated the Stonewall riots, the mishandling of the AIDS crisis, the murder of harmless innocents like Matthew Shepard, discrimination in the workplace and in the marketplace, unequal treatment under the law, or any number of other examples which collectively operated to drive gays underground, just wanted to be left alone. Hiding wasn't getting the job done, so the response, understandably, was to say, in effect, "Hey, listen up you cruel fucks, I'm here, I'm your neighbor, and I'm sick of being treated as subhuman." So, pride events started up as a way to peaceably say this, the first being on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall.
Granted, they've gotten well out of hand over the last decade or so, and I'd agree this phenomenon is driven by the agenda of the 1%. But the motivation of the rank and file gay population was not sinister, and still isn't. Those of us awake enough to think are appalled at what is being done in our name.
I think we can come to some middle ground. You're looking at the 1% pulling the strings, I'm looking at the gays next door who want to live their lives in peace.
You're right that the 1% wants to push LGBTQXYZ ideology in order to normalize that which healthy people find appalling. I'm with you in that observation.
I'm right that the average gay who observed actual injustices such as the brutality that precipitated the Stonewall riots, the mishandling of the AIDS crisis, the murder of harmless innocents like Matthew Shepard, discrimination in the workplace and in the marketplace, unequal treatment under the law, or any number of other examples which collectively operated to drive gays underground, just wanted to be left alone. Hiding wasn't getting the job done, so the response, understandably, was to say, in effect, "Hey, listen up you cruel fucks, I'm here, I'm your neighbor, and I'm sick of being treated as subhuman." So, pride events started up as a way to peaceably say this, the first being on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall.
Granted, they've gotten well out of hand over the last decade or so, and I'd agree this phenomenon is driven by the agenda of the 1%. But the motivation of the rank and file gay population was not sinister, and still isn't. Those of us awake enough to think are appalled at what is being done in our name.
I think we can come to some middle ground. You're looking at the 1% pulling the strings, I'm looking at the gays next door who want to live their lives in peace.
You're right that the 1% wants to push LGBTQXYZ ideology in order to normalize that which healthy people find appalling. I'm with you in that observation.
I'm right that the average gay who observed actual injustices such as the brutality that precipitated the Stonewall riots, the mishandling of the AIDS crisis, the murder of harmless innocents like Matthew Shepard, discrimination in the workplace and in the marketplace, unequal treatment under the law, or any number of other examples which collectively operated to drive gays underground, just wanted to be left alone. Hiding wasn't getting the job done, so the response, understandably, was to say, in effect, "Hey, listen up you cruel fucks, I'm here, I'm your neighbor, and I'm sick of being treated as subhuman." So, pride events started up as a way to peaceably say this.
Granted, they've gotten well out of hand over the last decade or so, and I'd agree this phenomenon is driven by the agenda of the 1%. But the motivation of the rank and file gay population was not sinister, and still isn't. Those of us awake enough to think are appalled at what is being done in our name.