Impartg life lsons to your own kids is part and parcel of parentg, but what about dog that for other people’s children? Aaron Gouveia wrtled wh that qutn when his young son me to him cryg bee an olr kid kept llg him gay.
Contents:
- GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
- ‘PRI MONTH IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULO,’ YOUNG GAY MAN SAYS TWEET RANT
- A DAD’S ADVICE TO NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: DON’T E GAY AS AN SULT
GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
An open letter to my fellow whe gay cis men: there should be no "returng to normal" after this. * gay pride is ridiculous *
Yep, ’s Pri Month, which means that everywhere you go for the next four weeks – the bank, the supermarket, Maccy D’s – you’ll have this flag waved your face to remd you not to be such a horrible, homophobic piece of sh.
If this don’t bee a meme featurg someone the Middle East sayg ‘They say the next bombs will be dropped by people who believe gay rights!
Who n fet M&S’s Pri sandwich, which was basilly a club sandwich wh add guamole (‘Gays like guamole, right? The wng of gay equaly was one of humankd’s greatt leaps forward of the past 50 years, and was ma possible by the pissed-off gays and lbians who fought rto battl wh the NYPD June 52 years ago. Stonewall has gone om fightg for equal treatment for gay men and lbians to monisg women who believe blogil sex is real and ragg agast lbians who thk is batsh crazy to say men n be lbians if they ‘feel’ that really they are women.
‘PRI MONTH IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULO,’ YOUNG GAY MAN SAYS TWEET RANT
Stonewall has spun so far to the vortex of intarian gibberish that now actively unrm gay people’s terts.
Its embrace of the regrsive, post-tth ia that sex is a spectm, and that people wh penis n be lbians, and that a woman who giv birth should have the right to be registered as her children’s father, grat agast the very foundatn of gay rights – namely that this is a same-sex attractn, and that the people who experience this attractn ought to enjoy full eedom society. Social media ers have been celebratg this year’s crop of big-name Pri merchandise wh gleeful montag of the most bizarre offergs: A mcle tank that reads “Sipp’ on Gaytora, ” another that says “Closets are for Cloth, ” a bottle of Pri-themed nail polish lled “Yaaasss Green.
“When I was young and my early 20s, when I knew I was gay, if I were to see a pany that was flyg a Pri flag, that was acceptg and welg, I would have been blown away, ” Ellis said. The ‘progrs flag’, for stance, adds a five-stripe chevron: the pk, light blue and whe strip signify trans rights, while the black and brown strip reprent people of lour – as though the origal rabow was some kd of leral pictn of the sk lours that are acceptable the gay muny.
A DAD’S ADVICE TO NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: DON’T E GAY AS AN SULT
Now that Pri has s own month (Febary, wh s ocsnal ‘leaps’, has always been the gayt of the months), there are flags for every nceivable sexual or genr inty. This works directly agast the ‘born this way’ mantra of the var gay-liberatn movements of the 20th century. While the worship of Michel Fouult is somewhat outdated amic circl ( 1995, Queer Theorist David M Halper even went so far as to wre a book lled Sat Fouult: Towards a Gay Haggraphy), the re ias have found their way to the mastream, particularly the emphasis on those nebulo power stctur we keep hearg about that apparently domate society.
Many trans activists, on the other hand, are followg the lead of the early gay-rights movement, advancg the blogil-sentialist argument that they are born wh male or female bras bodi of the opposg sex. This mak sense untri where beg gay is illegal or even punishable by ath, but no sense at all a untry like the UK where equal rights have been long tablished. This is not to suggt that homophobia has ceased to exist, or that we shouldn’t be vigoroly opposg wherever lgers, but to be gay the UK 2020 no longer rri the risk of arrt or social ostracisatn.
It is an sult to the achievements of civil-rights lumari of the past to pretend that gay people are more opprsed than ever. The stggle for gay rights was about equal treatment before the law, and makg visible those whose persecutn by the state had driven them to the shadows of society.