Straight pride. Offensive?

Yes, it's clearly offensive. People will sometimes blindly say that straight pride and Heterosexuality Awareness Month are okay as groups. Well, if you look into it, their content paints a much less savory picture.

The most offensive thing I have ever seen from them is the quote "our parents already know." To trivialize the sheer terror that we all felt when we came out to our parents is unconscionable.

Also, it's pretty much just White Pride World Wide reskinned as a straight identity group.

 

+1

It just shows they pretty much missed the point.

 

cm81990: That's true, and I feel like pride is maybe not the word I would have chosen. Visibility march, or solidarity march maybe. But not pride march. Many people identify themselves as having pride. They aren't saying that they are proud of being gay, necessarily. It's just the idea that they've conquered their shame, and the negation of shame is pride. On the other hand, the idea of surviving the oppression that society metes out is something to be proud of.

There are some problematic things that go on at pride parades, but that can just be chalked up to the fact that we all have different philosophies about how to move forward politically. If I were to go to a pride parade, even though I consider myself a radical queer and anti-assimilationist in terms of my politics, I'd still dress regularly at the parade. (I wouldn't be part of your leather or men in underwear crowd.) I think that it helps most to think of pride not as a political concept but a life stance.

 

It's not like we don't see it everyday already. Why do you need a poster for something that is everywhere? You can do that when queers are in every single movie, story, textbook, and whatever straights are in. Then you can do it, because then that's us granting you equality.

 

Well said, I agree with this. Kinda like MLKjr's "I Had a dream speech" That part where he said (Paraphrased) We should be judged by the content of our character, and not by the color of our skin, (or sexual orientation).

 

The idea of the group itself is fine, the problem is the sort of people that it attracts and it becoming a vehicle for hate masqueraded as something else. I personally think we need to cut back with the groups and the parades for "awareness" of any kind and actually try to spread messages more in general daily life.

 

yeah...the pride think is about feeling good in spite of other peoples bad attitudes. this is just weird. Its too silly to be that offensive.

 

Some person are gay, get over it.

 

A little offensive. The way I see it, they're kind-of rubbing it in our faces (that they don't get discriminated against, are able to marry etc).

In all honesty, though, I don't really give a damn.

 

You know, I can't wait for there to not be a need for "pride" events, because sexuality won't matter to people anymore.

 

Can you even imagine a straight pride event?
It would be so boring.

 

I can't actually imagine what a straight pride event would look like.

 

It is so ridiculous to me I don't even know what to say. Are they also asking for equality? LOL!

 

tbh, being proud of being straight kind of goes with out saying because most people are straight and everyone assumes your straight

 

I am glad someone gets the undertone this suggestion portrays.

It just seems so ridiculous and vendictive, from the perspective of a person who is not a part of that majority.