I saw pride flags on tower bridge and several other prominent landmarks in London. It made me happy. This year pride month reminds me of how far I have come since last year when I went to my first pride events.. But also makes me sad as I might not be able to organise people to go with this year
I think the whole Pride Month is well founded, but in liberal areas Gay Pride tends to bring about Gay superiority...
I agree! I love Pride Month and do not believe that silence is the answer! Especially when our rights are again up for question, we need to band together to ensure that our right to love and our right to exist still remains!
Would celebrate properly if I wasn't closeted, but it does serve a purpose of recognition. Though, apart from that, it is for me like any other month at the moment.
I'm surprised at the amount of people who are indifferent about it. I, for one, love pride month. It makes me feel so accepted, and it's nice to get recognition from everyone. I love how it bring awareness to the community. I also try to remember though that a lot of it is business, which is kind of upsetting, but I guess it's still awareness. It also allows for a lot of homophobic people to speak out, which is upsetting, but I don't let it bother me. It kind of just empowers me, in an odd way. I'm going on a tangent. The point is I love pride month haha
I love pride month too! It is interesting how businesses use it as a marketing tool. The thing is, I don't think it's entirely a bad thing though. It's a lot better to have businesses marching in pride and waving rainbow flags than for them to be like Chick-fil-A.
Pride Month is ok to me but in liberal areas, instead of it being a cultural celebration, it's heavily politicized.
I know exactly how you feel haha I feel like that a lot of the time. But - I suppose there is always still hate crime out there and it reminds the heterosexuals and the haters that we are all still here. Also, I suppose that it is a big community with lots of different types of people - I'm probably more masculine than some other people, I might prefer to celebrate in one way - other people might prefer the glitter and the rainbows!
I find the idea of Pride pretty cool - showing up as a big group and being happy who you are. My problem is I don't have an lgbt friend group, or a boyfriend, or really anyone to go with or celebrate with, so for me it's like "there's a big party that you'd love - but you can't come" or "love wins - but for you,enjoy your isolation". Which is a shame.
It saddens me that some of you guys don't understand the value and importance of having Pride. The whole point of having Pride is letting the mainstream know that yeah, we do actually exist and we don't deserve to be ignored or treated like third class citizens. Homophobia will never be eradicated and Pride is not only a safe space for every member of the LGBT community - black, white, thick, thin, old, young... - but it is a way of celebrating our identity as members of the LGBT community. I hate the idea of more masculine-acting gay men bashing feminine-acting gay men. That's not on. The damage it does to said feminine gay men is unprecedented.
I have always felt indifferent and unphased by it. I have never ever been to a parade or event... In South Africa, we don't really have a "pride month"... and as far as I know, Cape Town's pride week and parade is in February or March (which for us is in our summer time).