As Another Pride Month Draws to a Close...

...I'm left trying to figure out which I hate more:  the bigoted homophobes who think we care that they're boycotting the companies that go gay once a year, or the greedy rainbow capitalists who shove their atrocious gaudy logos down our throats every June.  (Seriously, who designs this shit?  Are they okay?)  Here's just one example of hundreds:  

AT&T donated $2,755,000 to 193 anti-gay politicians in 2017-2018 alone

The first gay pride was a riot.  Never forget.  Everything since has been progressively more shallow & corporate-centered which is no accident.  This is how movements are co-opted & killed under capitalism.  There were a few years in the '70s & '80s when Women's Lib & AIDS gave the whole thing an air of legitimacy & true community, but for the most part "Pride" has been about self-indulgent cash grabbing & narcissism.  I won't even touch on what the "TQ" portion of the LGBTQ rainbow has brought to the table.  Overall support for LGBT people is down in recent years and it's no mystery why.  Not that I particularly care what the normies think.  But it's worth noting.

Pride Month is just another sad example of how our society does the bare minimum to "show support" or "raise awareness" without actually doing a damn thing to address the material problems minority communities face.  Like Susan G. Komen's pink for breast cancer campaign, it's a cause without a purpose.  Many gays hate it as much as you straight pride bigots, just for a different reason.  If you had any sense you'd realize we should come together over the fact that we're BOTH being screwed over by these greedy fucks, not just during the month of June but 365 days a year.