I'm about to be 62, and came out of the closet in 1977. Yup, another gay dinosaur, also fellow Bostonian, at least since 1995. Anyway, I liked this post. Thanks for writing it.
Boston Pride became totally boring more than 10 years ago when all the dykes on bikes, leather daddies, S&Mers, and other outcasts got replaced by contingents from churches, corporations, and those boa-wearing politicians. Being gay used to be like being part of a fun, secret society. Now I feel like someone's trying to make me into their diversity pet.
I'll also add an important point which you overlooked. In 1978, Anita Bryant staged her great anti-gay campaign in Florida, and her chief argument was that (besides being sick and degenerate on their own), gays were trying to recruit children. Many other homophobes said the same. We in the gay community fought that idea for nearly 20 years, when finally most people understood that we weren't trying to recruit children.
Now? It's pretty damn openly the case. Drag queen story hour? Teenaged gender "transition" surgeries? Dylan Mulvaney on Bud Light cans? And conservatives are putting their feet down and saying "enough!" I am fearing a real backlash that will set our "community" back some time. Any sane gay person who lived through the 80s and the Moral Majority should be fighting all of this tooth and nail.
Personally the "Ts" are the worst, but the sno-cone haired elementary school teachers are also creating problems for us.
It's time to leave the kids out of this.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
<i>Where there's plenty of gays, but none of the ridiculous excesses described above.</i>
Thank you! Oh my gosh, I edited out a section about Anita Bryant because I figured (with my Disney connection) it might warrant its own post! I watched a great documentary on YouTube years ago about Anita Bryant, the Orange Bird, the gays boycotting screwdrivers at the bars, the pie-in-the-face, etc. Now I can’t find that documentary. Not sure if you know, but Disney brought back the Orange Bird a few years ago and he is an extremely popular character--they make a lot of $$$$ on Orange Bird merchandise. I feel like nobody is even aware of the history and I want to share it.
"Homosexuals cannot reproduce, so they must recruit." — Anita Bryant
In 1977, a few weeks before the Dade County gay rights ordinance was repealed, I was at a Joan Baez concert in Chicago with my mother, sister, and brother. Baez was about to release her album “Blowing Away”, which featured her gay rights song “The Altar Boy and the Thief”, and in-between songs she talked smack about Bryant several times. It was a great thing for my sister and me, 13 and 15 year old budding homosexuals, and a brave thing for Baez to do: a year earlier, Elton John had dipped his toe into the water and told Rolling Stone he was bisexual, and in our Catholic high school he went from the height of popularity to persona non grata status as quick as a wink. (Similar to what happened with Cat Stevens in 1989, except without any vinyl bonfires that I can remember.)
It used to be rare, and so it really meant something, when outsiders expressed support for us. Now, it’s just smart marketing and public relations for a certain strata — while billions of working class and poor LGBs in much of the world avoid PDAs for fear of violence. That’s the most tragic aspect of what’s become of the lesbian/gay movement in the Anglosphere: instead of building on its success and growing into an international movement, it turned solipsistic. We now have young, energetic people who can’t even name the countries that criminalize homosexuality, who show no interest in figuring out how they can use their power as voters and consumers to better the lot of Ugandan, Hungarian, Ghanaian, etc., LGBs. Instead, they are absorbed by creating flags to celebrate their micro-identities, and waging harassment campaigns against people who dare to use language in ways of which they disapprove.
It’s fucked up and sad. But I don’t think it’s hopeless. More of us need to step up to the plate and tell it like it is. Kudos to you for being such a one. （╹◡╹）✌︎
I'm 10 years older than you, and impressed you know about Anita Bryant and her campaign. I've got to believe that the under-40s have no idea about her, and how tightly in the public mind homosexuality and pedophilia were linked. And frankly, when I was a 17 year old twink, I attracted my share of NAMBLA types, who always creeped me out.
I'm retired in Mexico City now, though I still have my home in Boston. But I keep thinking of setting up a card table some day at 18th and Castro in San Fran (where I'm originally from) and trying to engage people on this topic. Unfortunately "anything goes" is not any kind of social standard. I'm super-liberal about what people do at home or in clubs. But out on the street, I think some of the more extreme things are just providing fodder for our enemies.
Anyway, thanks for writing your blog. I've enjoyed your stuff from Disney to this.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
Savin Hill, Boston
P.S. A post about Anita Bryant would be a very good thing.
Hi, I’m under 40. 🙂 Younger generations (although not Gen Z, who were too young) had some exposure to who Anita Bryant was in 2008, because archival footage of her was in the movie “Milk.”
Love your comment, Kim. I too thought the pedophilia trope had been put to rest. I remember when being a gay teacher or a gay doctor was dangerous...the closet was shut tight because of that crazy assertion. Now we have actual pedophiles with their own woke moniker: minor attracted person. What the f?
Yeah, "minor attracted person" is disgusting, and the gay "community" should distance itself from such things. We can have a reasonable conversation about age of consent laws, and we can even have a reasonable conversation about an 18-19 year old having sex with someone who's 17 and why that shouldn't necessarily be statutory rape. But over 30 and under 18? Nope!
Know that despite the rhetoric most straights do realize that the majority of gay men are no more pedophiles of boys then heterosexual men are of minor girls. It's the MSM media that has built this narrative in an effort to try and shame anyone criticizing gay pride.
I don't disagree with you, but I fear that the tide may be running in the other direction. Which is to say that perceptions of gay people as pedophiles probably troughed a few years ago and are now increasing, albeit from a low base. It's certainly not a good trend.
While it's been years since I spoke with them (I no longer live in the same state) my ex-fiancée and I had several gay friends from when we both worked in retail (ie the mall) and the majority were like everyone else except being sexually attracted to the same sex, adults aged same sex. Most were also no more interested in PDA's (public displays of affection) then persons of very strict religious beliefs that believe any kind of PDA needs to be private, at the home. They would often even refuse to be too close with each other when my ex and I would visit them. They were some really great guys who simply wanted to live life as they choose and be treated equally. They had no interest in trying to promote their lifestyle choices. I've had a few of them even say to me (usually after some beers ) that they wish they could just stop being gay because life would be so much easier. I fear that these types of gay men are going too be caught up in the backlash. That said, because of how things have been portrayed it's only people within that community who can pushback without fear of cancelation or being attacked by the media and or the mob so they have to stand up and help as groups like Gays Against Groomers are doing.
Even us gay folk have some worries about pushback. I have a politically moderate gay friend in San Francisco, and he's afraid to say anything against the prevailing "wokeness" that prevails out there. The Left is no longer even slightly tolerant. Indeed, they've become everything they once hated.
You gay men must stop this before it get's ugly because that's where it's headed otherwise. The news media is obsessed with covering only the most perverse examples like those in SF CA so you are the only ones who can shut that shift down because the pushback get's ugly. There are millions of us who are more than happy to tolerate gays living amongst us without simultaneously promoting or embracing it and that's all that should be expected but if something isn't done and soo you guys are going to see advancements you've made being setback possibly for decades. .
That's my fear: the backlash. The good news is that the most outrageous things are taking place in places like San Francisco and other major, very gay friendly cities.
That said, just look at what has gone on in Nashville between Matt Walsh and the pro-trans people. There's no escaping the looniness. And I'm referring to the trans, not Matt Walsh.
Good morning Gary. I’m 72 and straight. Thanks so much for this post. I’ve known gay and lesbians all my life and it’s never been and issue for me. But now this alphabet soup of letters is so crazy. I agree with your statements and feeling. This new trans community is insane. Is causing a huge upheaval in the minds of many straight people who never had an issue, as this bandwagon of corporate and political hypocrisy takes over. It makes me very sad.
Hey Gary, HAPPY PRIDE! The lesbian perspective is a bit different, but not contradictory. Diversity, and all that.
I went to my first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, as they called it back then, in 1972. It was a big deal, and I attended with my friends and lovers for many years. My photo diary reminds me that the last time we went was in 2007. The parade wasn't about us anymore. I was letting go of something profound and it felt very sad.
Even the Dyke March, always held the day before the main march, was populated by dudes in dresses and women showing off their mastectomy scars.
Now there are seven year-old trans children. Maybe they and their parents will have a special banner and a place of honor at the front of the march, the spot that used to be reserved for Dykes on Bikes.
The instantiation of "Pride" is complete. To celebrate, I'm going to pour a six-pack of Bud Lite down the bathroom sink.
P.S. Speaking of the "baptism of the dead," as Abigail Shrier calls the rewriting of the histories of Stonewall veterans who were gay but now spoken about as if they were trans: to honor the memory of one of our foremothers, I'd like to share this article about a big dyke who started it all (with a lot of help from her drag queen friends):
Thank you! I always love hearing your perspective. I remember the Dykes on Bikes, they were always a highlight of the parade in Boston. Thank you for sharing the article about Stormé too! It’s a crime the way she’s been either transed or erased altogether.
See my comment above. I (a gay man) also miss Dykes on Bikes and other transgressive groups of ADULTS. Pride marches in general have become too populated by floats sponsored by big companies, accompanied by church groups, etc. BORING!!!!!
Anyway, cheers!
Kim G
Roma Sur, CDMX
<i>Where the Pride March is still tons of fun, and somewhat subversive.</i>
Gay Freedom day is the only necessary celebration, as Andrew and others pointed out - 26 June, when the walls came tumbling down; many times.
26 June 2003, the two gay male heroes Laurence & Garner, forced the laws of the land to allow same sex sex without jail sentences.
26 June 2013 the lesbian Hero Windsor who forced the Federal laws to recognize lesbian and gay marriage.
26 June 2014 the main gay Hero Obergefell who forced the US states to recognize gay and lesbian marriage across the country as law is the land.
Only same-sex rights, won only by gay and lesbian hero’s working within teams of political and legal support, having zero to do with any other TQIA+ letters.
That’s all I celebrate, and remembering what existed before.
That’s the only thing which needs celebration, and it’s totally clear who were the heros, they’re a matter of public record, no dispute is possible.
Came across this today and thought you would appreciate this, if you've not seen it.
One of the best conversations on the alphabet mafia and pride, I've seen. What made it better was that the two commenters are gay and lesbian - which for me - lent immense credibility to their individual, but harmonious points.
This was a riot! Julie Bindel and Douglas Murray meeting on this one issue could only result in intelligent conversation with a dose of humor thrown in.
Wonderful piece. I haven’t been to Pride since they dropped the ‘gay’ from it. It’s become a disappointing embarrassment. The coalition our generation built has morphed into a ‘community’ of cosplaying virtue signaling straight people seeking entertainment and titillation.
Gary - It's also VERY important to not associate all trans people with the transactivists. We know that trans women in particular have been around long before ay of this political non-sense began,, Just as one example Shemale (I realize that today this term is somehow offensive to some) porn has ben around since the 80's possibly longer and that's because someone biological men prefer being women while other men prefer sex with one who looks art woman and part man. It's just what it is. The current transactivist movement have perverted this, made it unnatural buy convincing people who otherwise would never consider themselves trans to now say they are. .There's also been deliberate attacks on our food, waste and air with estrogen mimickers to increase female hormones' in men and thus to tame them into more mild mannered beats who are less willing to challenge the ruling elite. It's not just by fad alone that they have convinced so many males that they are now women. That is not how natutal human biology works.
Gary - as a heterosexual male who had many gay friends when I was working part timer in the men's clothing retail while in school I can say that I as have many heterosexuals' person not been OK with Gay Pride has it has been projected by the more extremes group like those in San Francisco who made it it about kink Pride. The fact is there is nothing "Prideful" about ones sexual preference be it straight or gay. It is simply a sexual preference. The more pervasive within the gay community used Gay Pride as an excuse to engage in public acts of lewdness, that has grown excessively abusive over time because of a false belief of how the majority view the gay community. The majority have not "accepted" homosexuality, they have decided to tolerate it and the 2 are not the same. Tolerance means we will live and let live , agree that gay people should not be proactively prosecuted or treated differently based on sexual preference. The gay community has mistaken this with embracement and has continued to push the boundaries of what the majority will tolerate to where they have found said boundary. %95+ of humanity is heterosexual so any affiliated with homosexuality is shared by the very few, the very small minority and frankly the majority are fed up with how these few have used the progress they made to push their beliefs about sex onto minors, other peoples kids. As one who has had several very meaningful gay friendships it hurts; me to see what is happening but a great pushback is coming and I fear many innocents bystanders will be harmed by it. There is only 1 group of people who can quell this and that's those within the LGB community who know this is wrong and who are willing to stand with heterosexual persons and say Kids are off limit end of discussion. And the only people who can do that are those in the gay community for any attempt by others will be immediately labeled as homophobic by the news media. It is in your community's best interest that you step up and shut this lewd non-sense down and for good. NO MORE GAY PRIDE anything since there is nothing prideful about one's sexual choices,. Only you can stop the pendulum from swinging back to the other drastic end setting back decades of progress.
Hey Gary!
I'm about to be 62, and came out of the closet in 1977. Yup, another gay dinosaur, also fellow Bostonian, at least since 1995. Anyway, I liked this post. Thanks for writing it.
Boston Pride became totally boring more than 10 years ago when all the dykes on bikes, leather daddies, S&Mers, and other outcasts got replaced by contingents from churches, corporations, and those boa-wearing politicians. Being gay used to be like being part of a fun, secret society. Now I feel like someone's trying to make me into their diversity pet.
I'll also add an important point which you overlooked. In 1978, Anita Bryant staged her great anti-gay campaign in Florida, and her chief argument was that (besides being sick and degenerate on their own), gays were trying to recruit children. Many other homophobes said the same. We in the gay community fought that idea for nearly 20 years, when finally most people understood that we weren't trying to recruit children.
Now? It's pretty damn openly the case. Drag queen story hour? Teenaged gender "transition" surgeries? Dylan Mulvaney on Bud Light cans? And conservatives are putting their feet down and saying "enough!" I am fearing a real backlash that will set our "community" back some time. Any sane gay person who lived through the 80s and the Moral Majority should be fighting all of this tooth and nail.
Personally the "Ts" are the worst, but the sno-cone haired elementary school teachers are also creating problems for us.
It's time to leave the kids out of this.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
<i>Where there's plenty of gays, but none of the ridiculous excesses described above.</i>
Thank you! Oh my gosh, I edited out a section about Anita Bryant because I figured (with my Disney connection) it might warrant its own post! I watched a great documentary on YouTube years ago about Anita Bryant, the Orange Bird, the gays boycotting screwdrivers at the bars, the pie-in-the-face, etc. Now I can’t find that documentary. Not sure if you know, but Disney brought back the Orange Bird a few years ago and he is an extremely popular character--they make a lot of $$$$ on Orange Bird merchandise. I feel like nobody is even aware of the history and I want to share it.
"Homosexuals cannot reproduce, so they must recruit." — Anita Bryant
In 1977, a few weeks before the Dade County gay rights ordinance was repealed, I was at a Joan Baez concert in Chicago with my mother, sister, and brother. Baez was about to release her album “Blowing Away”, which featured her gay rights song “The Altar Boy and the Thief”, and in-between songs she talked smack about Bryant several times. It was a great thing for my sister and me, 13 and 15 year old budding homosexuals, and a brave thing for Baez to do: a year earlier, Elton John had dipped his toe into the water and told Rolling Stone he was bisexual, and in our Catholic high school he went from the height of popularity to persona non grata status as quick as a wink. (Similar to what happened with Cat Stevens in 1989, except without any vinyl bonfires that I can remember.)
It used to be rare, and so it really meant something, when outsiders expressed support for us. Now, it’s just smart marketing and public relations for a certain strata — while billions of working class and poor LGBs in much of the world avoid PDAs for fear of violence. That’s the most tragic aspect of what’s become of the lesbian/gay movement in the Anglosphere: instead of building on its success and growing into an international movement, it turned solipsistic. We now have young, energetic people who can’t even name the countries that criminalize homosexuality, who show no interest in figuring out how they can use their power as voters and consumers to better the lot of Ugandan, Hungarian, Ghanaian, etc., LGBs. Instead, they are absorbed by creating flags to celebrate their micro-identities, and waging harassment campaigns against people who dare to use language in ways of which they disapprove.
It’s fucked up and sad. But I don’t think it’s hopeless. More of us need to step up to the plate and tell it like it is. Kudos to you for being such a one. （╹◡╹）✌︎
Hey Gary,
I'm 10 years older than you, and impressed you know about Anita Bryant and her campaign. I've got to believe that the under-40s have no idea about her, and how tightly in the public mind homosexuality and pedophilia were linked. And frankly, when I was a 17 year old twink, I attracted my share of NAMBLA types, who always creeped me out.
I'm retired in Mexico City now, though I still have my home in Boston. But I keep thinking of setting up a card table some day at 18th and Castro in San Fran (where I'm originally from) and trying to engage people on this topic. Unfortunately "anything goes" is not any kind of social standard. I'm super-liberal about what people do at home or in clubs. But out on the street, I think some of the more extreme things are just providing fodder for our enemies.
Anyway, thanks for writing your blog. I've enjoyed your stuff from Disney to this.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
Savin Hill, Boston
P.S. A post about Anita Bryant would be a very good thing.
Hi, I’m under 40. 🙂 Younger generations (although not Gen Z, who were too young) had some exposure to who Anita Bryant was in 2008, because archival footage of her was in the movie “Milk.”
Love your comment, Kim. I too thought the pedophilia trope had been put to rest. I remember when being a gay teacher or a gay doctor was dangerous...the closet was shut tight because of that crazy assertion. Now we have actual pedophiles with their own woke moniker: minor attracted person. What the f?
P.S. My sister is the first person I came out to, and when I did, she came out to me. Though "lipstick," she also used to ride a motorcycle. Cheers!
A heartwarming gay family memory ❤️
Yeah, "minor attracted person" is disgusting, and the gay "community" should distance itself from such things. We can have a reasonable conversation about age of consent laws, and we can even have a reasonable conversation about an 18-19 year old having sex with someone who's 17 and why that shouldn't necessarily be statutory rape. But over 30 and under 18? Nope!
Cheers!
Know that despite the rhetoric most straights do realize that the majority of gay men are no more pedophiles of boys then heterosexual men are of minor girls. It's the MSM media that has built this narrative in an effort to try and shame anyone criticizing gay pride.
I don't disagree with you, but I fear that the tide may be running in the other direction. Which is to say that perceptions of gay people as pedophiles probably troughed a few years ago and are now increasing, albeit from a low base. It's certainly not a good trend.
Cheers,
Kim G
While it's been years since I spoke with them (I no longer live in the same state) my ex-fiancée and I had several gay friends from when we both worked in retail (ie the mall) and the majority were like everyone else except being sexually attracted to the same sex, adults aged same sex. Most were also no more interested in PDA's (public displays of affection) then persons of very strict religious beliefs that believe any kind of PDA needs to be private, at the home. They would often even refuse to be too close with each other when my ex and I would visit them. They were some really great guys who simply wanted to live life as they choose and be treated equally. They had no interest in trying to promote their lifestyle choices. I've had a few of them even say to me (usually after some beers ) that they wish they could just stop being gay because life would be so much easier. I fear that these types of gay men are going too be caught up in the backlash. That said, because of how things have been portrayed it's only people within that community who can pushback without fear of cancelation or being attacked by the media and or the mob so they have to stand up and help as groups like Gays Against Groomers are doing.
Even us gay folk have some worries about pushback. I have a politically moderate gay friend in San Francisco, and he's afraid to say anything against the prevailing "wokeness" that prevails out there. The Left is no longer even slightly tolerant. Indeed, they've become everything they once hated.
You gay men must stop this before it get's ugly because that's where it's headed otherwise. The news media is obsessed with covering only the most perverse examples like those in SF CA so you are the only ones who can shut that shift down because the pushback get's ugly. There are millions of us who are more than happy to tolerate gays living amongst us without simultaneously promoting or embracing it and that's all that should be expected but if something isn't done and soo you guys are going to see advancements you've made being setback possibly for decades. .
That's my fear: the backlash. The good news is that the most outrageous things are taking place in places like San Francisco and other major, very gay friendly cities.
That said, just look at what has gone on in Nashville between Matt Walsh and the pro-trans people. There's no escaping the looniness. And I'm referring to the trans, not Matt Walsh.
Good morning Gary. I’m 72 and straight. Thanks so much for this post. I’ve known gay and lesbians all my life and it’s never been and issue for me. But now this alphabet soup of letters is so crazy. I agree with your statements and feeling. This new trans community is insane. Is causing a huge upheaval in the minds of many straight people who never had an issue, as this bandwagon of corporate and political hypocrisy takes over. It makes me very sad.
Stay safe. Iain Gunn Canada
Hey Gary, HAPPY PRIDE! The lesbian perspective is a bit different, but not contradictory. Diversity, and all that.
I went to my first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, as they called it back then, in 1972. It was a big deal, and I attended with my friends and lovers for many years. My photo diary reminds me that the last time we went was in 2007. The parade wasn't about us anymore. I was letting go of something profound and it felt very sad.
Even the Dyke March, always held the day before the main march, was populated by dudes in dresses and women showing off their mastectomy scars.
Now there are seven year-old trans children. Maybe they and their parents will have a special banner and a place of honor at the front of the march, the spot that used to be reserved for Dykes on Bikes.
The instantiation of "Pride" is complete. To celebrate, I'm going to pour a six-pack of Bud Lite down the bathroom sink.
P.S. Speaking of the "baptism of the dead," as Abigail Shrier calls the rewriting of the histories of Stonewall veterans who were gay but now spoken about as if they were trans: to honor the memory of one of our foremothers, I'd like to share this article about a big dyke who started it all (with a lot of help from her drag queen friends):
https://thevelvetchronicle.com/remembering-storme-the-black-butch-lesbian-who-started-the-stonewall-revolution/
Thank you! I always love hearing your perspective. I remember the Dykes on Bikes, they were always a highlight of the parade in Boston. Thank you for sharing the article about Stormé too! It’s a crime the way she’s been either transed or erased altogether.
I get the feeling the trans contingent doesn’t like us very much. Oh well.
See my comment above. I (a gay man) also miss Dykes on Bikes and other transgressive groups of ADULTS. Pride marches in general have become too populated by floats sponsored by big companies, accompanied by church groups, etc. BORING!!!!!
Anyway, cheers!
Kim G
Roma Sur, CDMX
<i>Where the Pride March is still tons of fun, and somewhat subversive.</i>
Gay Freedom day is the only necessary celebration, as Andrew and others pointed out - 26 June, when the walls came tumbling down; many times.
26 June 2003, the two gay male heroes Laurence & Garner, forced the laws of the land to allow same sex sex without jail sentences.
26 June 2013 the lesbian Hero Windsor who forced the Federal laws to recognize lesbian and gay marriage.
26 June 2014 the main gay Hero Obergefell who forced the US states to recognize gay and lesbian marriage across the country as law is the land.
Only same-sex rights, won only by gay and lesbian hero’s working within teams of political and legal support, having zero to do with any other TQIA+ letters.
That’s all I celebrate, and remembering what existed before.
That’s the only thing which needs celebration, and it’s totally clear who were the heros, they’re a matter of public record, no dispute is possible.
Let’s change the narrative
Gary,
Came across this today and thought you would appreciate this, if you've not seen it.
One of the best conversations on the alphabet mafia and pride, I've seen. What made it better was that the two commenters are gay and lesbian - which for me - lent immense credibility to their individual, but harmonious points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=YysgbnBohhc&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2F
This was a riot! Julie Bindel and Douglas Murray meeting on this one issue could only result in intelligent conversation with a dose of humor thrown in.
I think it’s time to make that tv show…
“Straight people cosplaying as fomosexuals” 🤣🙏😮💨 Spot on! Wonderful article mate.
Wonderful piece. I haven’t been to Pride since they dropped the ‘gay’ from it. It’s become a disappointing embarrassment. The coalition our generation built has morphed into a ‘community’ of cosplaying virtue signaling straight people seeking entertainment and titillation.
❤️❤️❤️
Thanks! I’ll watch that later. I’ve read both of them individually, so it will be interesting to hear their conversation!
Gary - It's also VERY important to not associate all trans people with the transactivists. We know that trans women in particular have been around long before ay of this political non-sense began,, Just as one example Shemale (I realize that today this term is somehow offensive to some) porn has ben around since the 80's possibly longer and that's because someone biological men prefer being women while other men prefer sex with one who looks art woman and part man. It's just what it is. The current transactivist movement have perverted this, made it unnatural buy convincing people who otherwise would never consider themselves trans to now say they are. .There's also been deliberate attacks on our food, waste and air with estrogen mimickers to increase female hormones' in men and thus to tame them into more mild mannered beats who are less willing to challenge the ruling elite. It's not just by fad alone that they have convinced so many males that they are now women. That is not how natutal human biology works.
Gary - as a heterosexual male who had many gay friends when I was working part timer in the men's clothing retail while in school I can say that I as have many heterosexuals' person not been OK with Gay Pride has it has been projected by the more extremes group like those in San Francisco who made it it about kink Pride. The fact is there is nothing "Prideful" about ones sexual preference be it straight or gay. It is simply a sexual preference. The more pervasive within the gay community used Gay Pride as an excuse to engage in public acts of lewdness, that has grown excessively abusive over time because of a false belief of how the majority view the gay community. The majority have not "accepted" homosexuality, they have decided to tolerate it and the 2 are not the same. Tolerance means we will live and let live , agree that gay people should not be proactively prosecuted or treated differently based on sexual preference. The gay community has mistaken this with embracement and has continued to push the boundaries of what the majority will tolerate to where they have found said boundary. %95+ of humanity is heterosexual so any affiliated with homosexuality is shared by the very few, the very small minority and frankly the majority are fed up with how these few have used the progress they made to push their beliefs about sex onto minors, other peoples kids. As one who has had several very meaningful gay friendships it hurts; me to see what is happening but a great pushback is coming and I fear many innocents bystanders will be harmed by it. There is only 1 group of people who can quell this and that's those within the LGB community who know this is wrong and who are willing to stand with heterosexual persons and say Kids are off limit end of discussion. And the only people who can do that are those in the gay community for any attempt by others will be immediately labeled as homophobic by the news media. It is in your community's best interest that you step up and shut this lewd non-sense down and for good. NO MORE GAY PRIDE anything since there is nothing prideful about one's sexual choices,. Only you can stop the pendulum from swinging back to the other drastic end setting back decades of progress.