People: pride parade is the perfect place for gay people to be themselves and be accepted
Me: by twerking, wearing bdsm and innapropriate clothes and child drag queen?
People: it's to show people we exist
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So what you’re basically saying is that when you see a Pride parade, you (knowingly or unknowingly) filter out the tens of thousands of people in tshirts and jeans (or equivalent), and only see the really loud n’ proud ones? Almost as if the tshirts and jeans Pride supporters don’t even exist.
And yes, to many LGBT people, just being out of the closet and explicitly being seen to exist as an LGBT person is an act of courage. There are still many violent homophobes out there. There are still many non-violent homophobes out there who drip-feed gay, bi, trans, etc. people that they’re “only going through a phase”, “unnatural”, “trying to convert children”, and all of the usual bullshit homophobes spout. Yes, showing that they exist is an act of courage - and an invitation to other gay people to feel that little bit safer and a little bit less alone.
Also: child drag queen is a verb?
"Me: by twerking, wearing bdsm and innapropriate clothes and child drag queen?"
Pretty much exactly. The whole message behind a pride parade is 'I am me and i am not ashamed to be myself, no matter what my interests are OR how YOU fuckers feel about them.'
You sitting all judgmental on twerking, bondage gear, revealing clothing, and 'dress-up' just further validates their expression. The more you judge their clothes as 'inappropriate,' the more outrageous they're going to be next year.
How are the extreme costumes and behaviors in a Pride Parade any different than the Leprechaun costumes and getting drunk on green beer in a St. Patrick’s Day Parade? It’s a chance to dress up and act silly, outside of what’s expected on a day-to-day basis. For the participant, it can mean everything, or nothing. In either case, it’s really none of your business, because no one is forcing you to stand and watch the parade. Even if it blocks your normal route, you can turn around and go another way. My city has an annual marathon that blocks off at least a half-dozen major streets for most of a day. At worst, it’s a mild annoyance for those of us with no interest in the race, just like a parade that interferes with traffic on a couple of blocks for a few hours.
Oh FFS, how many times, do these cretins need to hear it: That “child drag queen” is just playing fucking dress up, it’s not sexual in his case(he’s got the entire comedy routine to go with it, cause you know, drag itself is usually only a part of a whole comedy act) and he damn well asked his parents to try it out, ON HIS OWN. Yeah, the kid can make people uncomfortable, probably has a good fuckin chuckle out of it too, I would at his age.
As for the rest of it… Twerking. Just twerking… What the fuck do you have against it specifically? And what about those of us who don’t go dancing in leather harnesses but just walk along in jeans and hoodies? To me, Pride marches are a promise and a continuation of our basic rights and our freedoms. Yes, sometimes freedoms to be obnoxious and freaky and yes, sometimes we need to remind people like you about that. Some of us do with leather strap-ins, others will just wear a rainbow hoodie but we will always come together to protect one another. Our rights were not given, they were fought for. That distinction there is important. The Pride is the commemoration of that, sorta like a victory parade in our times. In many a way, that leather gear is much like the parade uniforms.
You cannot be proud of something you had nothing to do with, be it your race, sex, sexual orientation, color - none of it.
You do realize the overt production they’re making of that part of the parade is specifically to tweak the noses of those who aggressively attempt to conflate sexuality with social norms and append anything that deviates from that norm to one’s sexuality as a way of scaring people who fear judgment into conforming to those norms as well as inventing from whole cloth more eccentric or flamboyant behaviours and similarly attributing them to the LGBT community to provoke hysterical reactions and make people abandon their common sense in favour of paranoid imaginings, don’t you?
Every other day of the week they’re the person bagging your groceries and giving you advice on your tax returns… And I’m sure the thought of that rather than clearly visible eccentrics you can give the evil eye to from across the street frightens you. Which is another reason people invented those stereotypes.
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