This is hilarious! I used to go to the Pride festival in Brighton, UK, every year. Having seen about 10 years' worth of that, Lookie's description sounds just plain inaccurate. Either he's been to a Pride and assumed that because he was surrounded by homosexuals that the entire male population was eyeing up his peachy ass (so he got really angry in an effort to fend 'em all off with the sheer might of his impotent nerd-rage), he hung out around the bushes near the end, or he never went in the first place and is flat-out making it up.
Families do tend to go, including with small children. I can't speak for their reasons for taking their kids because I'm not a parent myself. Perhaps they take them so that their children can get used to the idea from a very young age that sometimes, a man and a man or a woman and a woman will feel affection towards each other just like mummy and daddy do. Or maybe they go for no other reason than because Prides can be one hell of a party. Let's not even get started on how young kids have one thing in common with the homosexual community: they both love a rainbow!*
Putting aside for a moment the lack of a concrete definition here for the word 'degenerate', I personally saw very little animalistic activity. A few couples kissed and hugged, but that was about it. Aside from that, well... it was a festival, so you saw a fair bit of drinking and drug-taking, but nothing more than your average music festival. Mostly it was just whatever was needed to get a party-goer in a dancing mood, you know? And I can attest that the bushes tended to be used as toilets, not makeshift bedrooms: like most festivals, there weren't anywhere near enough toilets.
@HotaruSobotka: Well yeah, for sure: the parade tends to be the more socially-orientated bit, at least in Brighton. It's the bit where money's collected, stickers and such are handed out, and families come to hear the music and see the colours and dancing and family-friendly campiness, and the local corporations show theirs upport/crowbar themselves into the event by supporting it in one way or another. The parade itself is nowhere near as raunchy as Lookie's saying it is. You'll see the occasional dude in leather or drag-queen in fishnets, but I guarantee you all they're doing is walking and perhaps dancing-while-walking. It's a parade. They've got to keep the pace.
To sum up: I think Lookie's just upset because someone's had a good time and it wasn't him. Heck, even the tag-along heteros like me had more fun at Pride than he did. Must be depressing for little old Lookie.
*Okay okay, maybe I'm being a touch facetious here. Maybe.
