Pride Month made me sick. Literally.
OK, I can’t prove that. But what I CAN tell you is that I was dreading the month of June and stressing over how I was going to get through it…and then tested positive for Covid on June 1st. This meant I had to stay home for seven days, so for the full first week I didn’t have to be subjected to the DEI/LGBTQIA+ circus going on at work! Hooray!
I am double vaccinated, so it was a mild case and I have no idea who/where I got it from. I think I actually willed myself to be sick. THAT’s how much I loathe Pride Month.
In addition, prior to getting sick, I had a plan in place: With lots of unused PTO days, I already had a lengthy vacation planned toward the end of June. Part of me felt a little guilty about this because, as a self-appointed advocate for LGB people at Disney (even the ignorant or ill-informed LGB’s who can’t see the forest for the trees) I felt I should be there to investigate and document all the Alphabet Soup bullshit being presented in the name of ‘Pride’. But I decided that my mental health should take precedence and perhaps it would be better for me to take time off to spend with friends and family rather than going to work and being filled with rage every day.
As (more) luck would have it, at the very end of my vacation my return flight was canceled so I had no choice but to extend my getaway another day. All told, I only had to work seven days out of the month of June. Not bad! I recommend this for anyone who hates Pride and works at a hyperwoke company.
Still, in that short amount of time I DID manage to find some offensive Rainbow Propaganda to share with you. I’ll leave out the pronoun-pushing messages because those are ubiquitous, in our faces ALL YEAR, and deserve their own blog post someday.
First, take a look at this bulletin board. This was cut-and-pasted onto several bulletin boards I encountered in different locations of my work areas.
Of particular note is this lie, next to a photo of Marsha P. Johnson:
Transgender people were NOT at the forefront of the Stonewall Inn riots. They weren’t even there at all. Yet this rewriting of gay history has been repeated so often that several generations of people now believe it. The trans movement doesn’t have much of a history, so they are stealing ours. ‘LGBTQIA+’ organizations like HRC continue to tell this lie, which is one of the many reasons why from the bottom of my heart I tell HRC to fuck off.
If you think I’m making too big of a deal about this, take a look at this Pride board, where Disney cast members were encouraged to write their own Pride message:
Did you see it? Here’s a close-up:
This is what people believe. This is the anti-gay message of today’s Pride celebrations.
When I saw this, I was furious. So I quickly scribbled a response:
The next day, the board looked like this:
…and was updated a few days later with the hideous ‘Progress Flag’:
This is gay erasure in action.
Next to this was a board with the query “Who are your LGBTQIA+ Heroes?” (I fuzzed out some of the names that seemed to be cast members themselves.)
So basically, mostly transgender celebrities, some fictional characters, and famous ‘allies’. (And…Meryl Streep? I’m lost on that choice.)
Not one gay man. (No, I don’t count the fictional ‘Glee’ character.)
I took the opportunity to write a name. A name that people should know. I hope some people Googled it:
Elsewhere, I received an email celebrating Disney being ranked #1 for its Pride collection:
I looked it up to see who gave Disney this ‘honor’ and discovered it was from an Out.com article written by Mey Rude. The same Mey Rude who tweeted this:
Call me crazy, but I don’t think Disney should be celebrating Pride Month by touting an honor bestowed upon by someone who is essentially calling for the extinction of lesbians.
I didn’t entirely escape Pride on my vacation. (I’d have to go to the moon for that.) Or Disney, for that matter. As part of my west coast visit, my friends and I visited Downtown Disney, where I saw this…art piece(?) devoted to Pride. Dozens of little yellow flags with words that show the absurdity of what Pride has become.
Anything and everything is included in Pride. Yes, even ‘SPIDER RESCUER’:
Also please note that the ‘Transgender’ flag gets top billing as the highest raised. (I’m shocked that they even included a ‘Lesbian’ flag at all.)
This is what Pride has become. A celebration of FOMOsexuals, a mention here and there of LGB’s, and a primary focus on transgenderism.
[You don’t believe me? If you have an iPhone, type ‘Pride flag’ in and see which image pops up. It won’t be the classic rainbow you remember.]
The current version of Pride is bad enough for being a corporate-fueled scheme to sell ostentatious merchandise. But worse, it’s become a complete bastardization of its original intent, actually erasing gays and lesbians.
They probably only sanctioned the inclusion of the lesbian Pride flag because some ghastly homophobic straight man insisted that he was one. I don't believe it was to honour any actual lesbian employees either.
As a boomer gay guy, I have to say I agree with you. I've gone from living in the closet, to being out to family and friends in the 1980s, being out to pretty much everyone in a discreet way in the 90s (when I'd simply drop references to my then-lover, Jeff), to the 2000s when I really didn't give a fuck what people thought, to now where I don't want to be anyone's woke mascot. I'm an ordinary, cis-gender gay guy. I just want to live my life, have the same choices as anyone else. No, I don't want the government to have any say in who I marry, and that's it. Gay is part of who I am. I'm not some kind of lovable freak that everyone should make way for. I'm just me.
As a boy, I was a little on the girly side. No, I didn't wear any dresses, as that would have been a death sentence in the 60s. But I was definitely different. I dread to think what might have happened to me had I grown up today, under "liberal" woke parents. Would they have tried to make me a girl? I shudder at the thought.
Frankly, I have a sneaking suspicion that all this focus on transgenderism is really a kind of homophobia. Right? The world can't stand same-sex attraction, so the answer now is that you must be the wrong sex. Not that you're just different and may be gay.
And the whole alphabet soup of LGBTQ+-whatever is ridiculous. "B" was always a bit suspect. Often in the past it was simply a waystation to either "L" or "G." I've only met one genuine bisexual in my life, and I tend to believe they are quite rare. Many of us called ourselves "B" for while before we came to grips that we were really either "G" or "L."
And what, exactly, is the link between the Gs & Ls and the Ts? I feel absolutely nothing in common with them. Maybe it's time they had their own movement.
I really enjoy pride parades. At this point, they're basically Gay Mardi Gras -- a big fat, licentious party, nothing more. In the early days, their purpose was to demonstrate that we were not some miniscule minority, but a sizable group of people. That point is now amply demonstrated. Is there any living human in the Western World that doesn't know at least a handful of gay people?
Let's face it, the LG movement has pretty much achieved what we set out to achieve -- marriage rights and full equality. We should not be focusing more and more resources on increasingly trivial goals.
Let's all just live openly as who we are, and the rest will take care of itself.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City