Sigh. 😮💨
It's "Pride" month again but I'd argue that there's nothing to be proud of in alphabet soup land. Quite the opposite. What started in 1969 with a series of riots pushing back against rampant police persecution & continued throughout the '70s, '80s, and '90s as a celebration of solidarity & a time of educating the public about all the nuanced issues affecting gay life has become a corporate-sponsored virtue-signalling free for all... and I do mean for ALL. Everybody's welcome, including perfectly heterosexual 1%er politicians who are there only to fulfill their oh-so-leftist duties of pretending to care while posing for cute new summer profile pics with people on whom they wouldn't piss if they were on fire.
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| AOC gets her obligatory gay selfies in. |
Then you have the other extreme end of the spectrum who in no way represent the average homosexual woman or man despite the media's disproportionate coverage of them. Let's call them the "+" in the LGBTQIA+: The BDSM kinksters, furries, leather boys, foot fetishists & those dudes in nipple clamps, whatever the fuck they "identify" as. Obnoxious as they are, there's an even more threatening aspect of this "community" that's been trying to nudge its way into gay parades since the '70s and is finally having success after failed attempts under names like "NAMBLA" and "PIE". Some of these folx just enjoy roleplaying older/younger scenarios in the bedroom ("age play") but a small handful are pushing acceptance of something far more sinister... the love that TRULY dare not speak its name, we all know what it is and it starts with a P.
Yes, I'm talking about pedophilia, that hideous affliction Anita Bryant warned about in her 1970s Save Our Children campaign, the insufferable b!tch.
I would rather chew off my own leg to escape adulthood ("it's a trap!") than admit Anita Pieface Bryant might've been right. Back then gays were outraged, emphatically stating that they wanted nothing to do with straight people's stupid children, and that's still the case... for most of us. But some of y'all are far too willing to let anyone into the party without checking their credentials and criminal history. May I suggest a history refresher course because we're being accused of the same thing again, but this time with actual evidence.
The number of drag queen storytime readers who have turned out to be convicted pedos is disturbingly high for such a minuscule segment of the overall population. This is unacceptable, especially in a time when awareness (some would even say paranoia) about child predators is higher than ever with documentaries like "Quiet on Set" and "Athlete A". Oh and that whole QAnon/Pizzagate/Politicians-killing-kids-to-steal-their-adrenochrome thing. Desensitizing children to adult-themed content is a well-known tactic of groomers, while we're on the subject.
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| A man with his "dog" & some sort of canine pride flag at Pride. |
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| Drag queen leads a conga line of minors at Pride. |
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Nearly nude gays grind & thrust on a parade float.  |
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| Kink flags. The 1st two = "Adult Baby Diaper Lover" & "Age Play". 🤮 |
The debate about whether kink belongs at Pride, an event where children are always present for some ungodly reason, was bound to lead here wasn't it? An event with tens or hundreds of adults in barely-there costumes writhing on giant dick-shaped floats careening down Main Street at noon is the last place children belong, not because it's gay but because it's NUDITY and SEXUALLY EXPLICIT conduct and DRUG/ALCOHOL ingestion, all of which are beyond a child's developmental level of comprehension. Kids didn't belong at that deadly fucking Travis Scott concert either, with its already-chaotic atmosphere made worse by the violent, psychopathic lyrics in Scott's songs; the unchecked drug and alcohol ingestion, public displays of (graphic horny teenage) affection by concertgoers, etc. This was a recurring event--both planners & parents should've known this wasn't a children's carnival. But there they were: kids getting trampled, some to death, by a sea of much older yet equally-unsophisticated music haters.
Lovers.
Whatever.
There are lots of places that aren't kid-friendly in this society--bars (both alcohol and hookah), marijuana dispensaries, burlesque shows, strip clubs, sex clubs, gun ranges, casinos--that doesn't necessarily make them "bad" or "evil." But for some reason when you say kids don't belong at drag shows the gays flip their Party City wigs. So, when forced to choose between kink at Pride and children at Pride (I'd prefer neither but apparently I'm some kind of Puritan freak), the madding crowd refused. So by default we ended up with both. Most cities have said 'fuck it' and allow a whatever goes environment complete with booze, nudity & kids' activities like crafting mini rainbow pinatas & other arts/crafts at booths which is the worst of all worlds. I actually can't think of an event I'd rather attend less. The fun-to-lame-to-creepy ratio is all outta whack, and that's without even considering how it looks to onlookers or the harm it's doing the kids.
Lovers.
Whatever.
There are lots of places that aren't kid-friendly in this society--bars (both alcohol and hookah), marijuana dispensaries, burlesque shows, strip clubs, sex clubs, gun ranges, casinos--that doesn't necessarily make them "bad" or "evil." But for some reason when you say kids don't belong at drag shows the gays flip their Party City wigs. So, when forced to choose between kink at Pride and children at Pride (I'd prefer neither but apparently I'm some kind of Puritan freak), the madding crowd refused. So by default we ended up with both. Most cities have said 'fuck it' and allow a whatever goes environment complete with booze, nudity & kids' activities like crafting mini rainbow pinatas & other arts/crafts at booths which is the worst of all worlds. I actually can't think of an event I'd rather attend less. The fun-to-lame-to-creepy ratio is all outta whack, and that's without even considering how it looks to onlookers or the harm it's doing the kids.
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| Crowd gathers around random transgender person to 'ooh' and 'ahh' at their scars. |
I can hear you now: What about the TQ's, Forbidden Fruit? You're forgetting about the TQ's! We can't forget them, meek and humble as they might be. What would Pride be without them? Truly, what could America or the world even BE proud of if not for the Stunning-Braves™? Would science, medicine, the arts, linguistic typology, archaeology, religion or architecture in Helsinki even exist if not for these charitable & self-effacing souls who constantly put the comforts & Cluster-B like demands of the cis scum majority ahead of their own safety?! They're the pièce de résistance of Western civilization!
Need proof? Exhibit A: The young ex-female warrior above who unveils her double mastectomy scars proudly at Pride to a chorus of cheers. Nope, nothing culty here. They're cheering because now she's free to live as her true self with massive surgical scars & a cascade of synthetic male hormones surging through her veins for life, angrily confusing her lack of dating options with transphobia. Brava. 👏🏻
Need proof? Exhibit A: The young ex-female warrior above who unveils her double mastectomy scars proudly at Pride to a chorus of cheers. Nope, nothing culty here. They're cheering because now she's free to live as her true self with massive surgical scars & a cascade of synthetic male hormones surging through her veins for life, angrily confusing her lack of dating options with transphobia. Brava. 👏🏻
Just What Are You Saying, You LGBTQIA☿S♘⛕WTF -phobe?
I think I speak for most sensible gay people (or a helluva lot anyway) when I say none of this clownery represents me any more than Jerry Springer's guests represent the average employed, college-educated straight person. It's a fucking sideshow & it's doing more harm than good to the cause of acceptance & progress. Gay rights groups & causes need to divest from trans and "queer" causes post haste unless we want to go down with the ship. And gays need to boycott events like Pride en masse until they do or we risk losing our hard-won rights & undoing decades of progress that our forefathers/mothers literally fought and died for. It's that serious. As bleak as things are now, you do NOT want to be around when the bill comes due on this trans shit for real. Don't say you weren't warned.
Most gays just want the same basic human rights as others & to be left the fuck alone by homophobes & religious types, not to continuously push the envelope until there are no laws or social taboos left. We have the right to fuck who and how we want in private so there's no need for this display of excessively lewd shit in public. I'd be considered a dinosaur in gay years and I've still never been to a gay parade or "Pride" event, and every year I'm reminded why. I despise the fact that THIS is what comes to mind when you tell someone you're gay. 😞
Some of us still believe that sex and all its related kinks are exclusively for adults & belong in the bedroom, not in the street around strangers & their kids. If that's "respectability politics," call me Her Royal Majesty, Queen of Respectville. I don't need a bunch of meth-addled pornsick freaks twerking in the middle of downtown Nowheresburg to be my authentic self or feel like I belong, nor am I delusional enough to believe that these public displays of obscenity are in any way "political". Not anymore. Maybe it was revolutionary when gay bars were getting raided nightly & the act of consensual adult "sodomy" was illegal, but not now. Perhaps when simply identifying as homosexual got you diagnosed as 'mentally ill' it was necessary to show the world that gays could engage in loving sex acts without going feral & shooting up a Piggly Wiggly.
But today fucking is just fucking--a means to an end in the era of on-demand free amateur porn of every conceivable variety & HIV & chemsex & monkeypox & AI chatbot lovers & dopamine oversaturation and... That, plus the average American is far better educated about sexual orientation than the typical 1950's American breeder was. Yes, even conservative and religious people. Chalk it up to decades of ongoing education efforts by gays and their local orgs + changing societal attitudes combined with the merciful lack of After School Specials/PSAs warning kids to watch out for "the homosexual" (translation: the gay male child molester who prefers boys over girls). Because apparently straight men and women never prey on kids of the opposite sex. 🤦🏻♀
Yikes alright, but for different reasons.
Sex is great but it's not consequence-free. I'm old enough to remember when AIDS transformed from an obscure disease lurking in the Congolese jungle to an epidemic among gay and bisexual American men ("GRID") in a very short space of time. That happened right after Hepatitis B became a sexually transmitted disease for the first time in history thanks to what was going on in the bathhouses, which happened right around the time genital herpes came into existence in the hetero population as a result of their "free love" fest of the '60s and swinging '70s. It seemed to happen very fast but the fuse had been silently burning for a long time.
Sure enough, as soon as we got a treatment that turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable chronic disease--a miracle of modern medicine by any standard--people went back to their old barebacking ways en masse. That's your business I suppose, but when you parade around half-nude in the streets air-humping to the beat of "Pillow Princess," you give the impression that promiscuous high-risk sex is consequence-free & that sex is the entirety of the gay experience, both of which are dangerous to our survival in different ways.
But today fucking is just fucking--a means to an end in the era of on-demand free amateur porn of every conceivable variety & HIV & chemsex & monkeypox & AI chatbot lovers & dopamine oversaturation and... That, plus the average American is far better educated about sexual orientation than the typical 1950's American breeder was. Yes, even conservative and religious people. Chalk it up to decades of ongoing education efforts by gays and their local orgs + changing societal attitudes combined with the merciful lack of After School Specials/PSAs warning kids to watch out for "the homosexual" (translation: the gay male child molester who prefers boys over girls). Because apparently straight men and women never prey on kids of the opposite sex. 🤦🏻♀
Yikes alright, but for different reasons.
Sex is great but it's not consequence-free. I'm old enough to remember when AIDS transformed from an obscure disease lurking in the Congolese jungle to an epidemic among gay and bisexual American men ("GRID") in a very short space of time. That happened right after Hepatitis B became a sexually transmitted disease for the first time in history thanks to what was going on in the bathhouses, which happened right around the time genital herpes came into existence in the hetero population as a result of their "free love" fest of the '60s and swinging '70s. It seemed to happen very fast but the fuse had been silently burning for a long time.
Sure enough, as soon as we got a treatment that turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable chronic disease--a miracle of modern medicine by any standard--people went back to their old barebacking ways en masse. That's your business I suppose, but when you parade around half-nude in the streets air-humping to the beat of "Pillow Princess," you give the impression that promiscuous high-risk sex is consequence-free & that sex is the entirety of the gay experience, both of which are dangerous to our survival in different ways.
It gets harder with every passing June to empathize or identify with people who behave like immature egotistical hedonists. Many of these loud and proud gays are white, male & wealthy due to their Dual Income No Kids (DINK) relationships but won't hesitate to yell over members of other minority/oppressed groups like women, Black people, the disabled & others who try to speak about their own IRL struggles. Again, this makes it damn hard to relate to this crowd. Also, you can't say things like "Gays are just like you. Our relationships are not all about sex!" and then expect to be taken seriously when putting on ridiculously lewd displays like this. What is the goal of Pride nowadays? What are we fighting for? Can you imagine if Black Lives Matter or any other civil rights organization behaved like this in the streets all across America for an entire month?
To anyone who thinks we're all this way: we're not. These people aren't really fighting for anything other than your undivided attention at all times. The less you give it to them, the better. If you need a rainbow-washed corporate holiday to make you feel like you matter, it's probably time for some therapy 'cause you got bigger problems than being gay. To the gays who feel the same way I do but are afraid to speak up for fear of being alienated from your brunch-liberal communities, I feel your pain but I implore you to grow a backbone. Any group that requires you to alienate friends/family to be a part of it is a (say it with me) CULT.
To those who think I'm a stuffy, prudish conservative hag: fuck you. You couldn't be more wrong, I just believe in moderation & common sense which is nowhere near common enough these days. The truth has no political affiliation; you've just been effectively propagandized by the 2-party system to believe otherwise. The alphabet mob is every bit as culty as the Christian church, and the corporate & government orgs that support it are no less corrupt. Not all cults are religious.
You can't force people to accept you; all you can do is fight for your right to enjoy the same freedoms they have--I'm talking basic human rights like equal employment, housing, healthcare & the right to marry any consenting adult that will have you. The "boring" stuff that probably half the LGB population of Earth still doesn't enjoy due to backward laws & violently regressive social attitudes in many developing nations. Be grateful you have it. I can guarantee the current method of aggressively forcing this particular trait of yours (homosexuality) on the general public by making every other day "Gender Fluid Day" or "Trans Visibility Day" and then spending a whole month in June parading around in less than a loincloth is not helpful to the cause of acceptance & progress. I'm gay and it's making me sick so I can imagine how the straights must feel.
Which leads me to believe some of you aren't really seeking acceptance at all; maybe a small part of you even wants to repel people. Perhaps you need to drum up some friction because your lives are too boring & drama-free without it. You see those vintage Stonewall photos & long for that kind of conflict despite knowing it's not socially acceptable to admit it. Maybe for you late bloomers, this is your rebellious phase--a way of saying 'eat shit' from a distance to the controlling, miserable parents you always vowed to show the world you were nothing like.
Great. Go you.
Just keep in mind that for some of us, this ISN'T a phase. We can't just "go back to dating the other sex" or decide to have a traditional heteronormative wedding & nuclear family when it gets too stressful or our biological clocks tell us it's time to get 'serious' and settle down. This "gay thing" is not one of many cute identity costumes we're trying on, it's who we are & we've paid a hefty price for it. There is no Plan B. Additionally, some of us grew up in a time and/or place that might as well have been Stonewall, complete with family abandonment, discrimination by businesses, religious bigotry & bullying (by both kids and adults) that would be considered assault and battery or worse today.
To those who think I'm a stuffy, prudish conservative hag: fuck you. You couldn't be more wrong, I just believe in moderation & common sense which is nowhere near common enough these days. The truth has no political affiliation; you've just been effectively propagandized by the 2-party system to believe otherwise. The alphabet mob is every bit as culty as the Christian church, and the corporate & government orgs that support it are no less corrupt. Not all cults are religious.
You can't force people to accept you; all you can do is fight for your right to enjoy the same freedoms they have--I'm talking basic human rights like equal employment, housing, healthcare & the right to marry any consenting adult that will have you. The "boring" stuff that probably half the LGB population of Earth still doesn't enjoy due to backward laws & violently regressive social attitudes in many developing nations. Be grateful you have it. I can guarantee the current method of aggressively forcing this particular trait of yours (homosexuality) on the general public by making every other day "Gender Fluid Day" or "Trans Visibility Day" and then spending a whole month in June parading around in less than a loincloth is not helpful to the cause of acceptance & progress. I'm gay and it's making me sick so I can imagine how the straights must feel.
Which leads me to believe some of you aren't really seeking acceptance at all; maybe a small part of you even wants to repel people. Perhaps you need to drum up some friction because your lives are too boring & drama-free without it. You see those vintage Stonewall photos & long for that kind of conflict despite knowing it's not socially acceptable to admit it. Maybe for you late bloomers, this is your rebellious phase--a way of saying 'eat shit' from a distance to the controlling, miserable parents you always vowed to show the world you were nothing like.
Great. Go you.
Just keep in mind that for some of us, this ISN'T a phase. We can't just "go back to dating the other sex" or decide to have a traditional heteronormative wedding & nuclear family when it gets too stressful or our biological clocks tell us it's time to get 'serious' and settle down. This "gay thing" is not one of many cute identity costumes we're trying on, it's who we are & we've paid a hefty price for it. There is no Plan B. Additionally, some of us grew up in a time and/or place that might as well have been Stonewall, complete with family abandonment, discrimination by businesses, religious bigotry & bullying (by both kids and adults) that would be considered assault and battery or worse today.
Whatever you do out there in those streets reflects on all of us, good, bad or indifferent. I wish that wasn't the case but it is. It's just part of the package when you belong to a long-maligned sexual minority. If you're not old enough to remember those horrific pedophile PSAs, or Jerry Falwell saying AIDS was "god's punishment" for "going against nature," consider yourself lucky. I do. But I wasn't so lucky in other ways & I know people who had it even worse than me. So I would just ask that you think about the person standing next to you or, better yet, the person you don't see "out and proud" at Pride when you're representing us this month.
(I'm entirely aware that this is a waste of time. Still, a part of me likes to imagine that one guilt-wracked reader having a crisis of conscience as he reads this under a lone dangling lightbulb, knocking his soda over with his first as he resolves to exercise some restraint for the first time in his life if it kills him, dammit).
(I'm entirely aware that this is a waste of time. Still, a part of me likes to imagine that one guilt-wracked reader having a crisis of conscience as he reads this under a lone dangling lightbulb, knocking his soda over with his first as he resolves to exercise some restraint for the first time in his life if it kills him, dammit).
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👯♂ Prides of Yesteryear 🏳🌈
Stonewall Riots, 1969
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1st gay pride parade, San Francisco 1970
Gee, where'd all the transvestites go? 🤔
NYC Pride, 1990
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| Sonoma County Pride, 1991 |
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I have a friend who is a speech pathologist. She had a lot of transitioning MtF clients who wanted to speak more feminine. She said back in the day people needed years of psychiatric appointments related to gender dysphoria and the psychiatrist also required them to live openly as a female for at least a year before doctors would even think about doing a sex change surgery. Nowadays anyone can get surgery in a few months time it seems. I've seen many FtM trans people post tiktok videos after transitioning saying how hard it is being a man in todays society and wished they never transitioned. It's ironic because I'm sure many are also the type that blame men 24/7 for everything and everything. It seems back in the day getting a tattoo was the rebellious cool thing to do as a teen and then people would regret it when they were older. Now coming out as trans is the rebellious/cool thing to do for many people
ReplyDeleteThis is true; your friend is 100% correct. The safeguarding/gatekeeping is totally gone now, even for children. If a kid says they're trans, they're the expert so to speak. In a matter of 2 appointments they're on the path to physical transition with puberty blockers.
DeleteI saw a whistleblower recently say there were kids calling her crying asking to have body parts "put back on". She was told to ignore that kind of thing & not to even use the phrase "I have concerns". It's absolutely criminal. Entire classrooms of teen girls are going to gender clinics to transition when it used to be exceedingly rare for girls to even be trans. The medical, scientific & psychiatric communities are going to have a lot to answer for when the bill comes due.