‘Pri month is absolutely ridiculo,’ young gay man says tweet rant - LifeSe

Contents:

• US OLYMPIAN SLAMS ‘RIDICULO’ GAY LUGE AD
• 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
• 12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID

US OLYMPIAN SLAMS ‘RIDICULO’ GAY LUGE AD

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. 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While the worship of Michel Fouult is somewhat outdated amic circl ( 1995, Queer Theorist David M Halper even went so far as to wre a book lled Sat Fouult: Towards a Gay Haggraphy), the re ias have found their way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.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

If anythg, a bs that feels the need to shout about how don’t discrimate agast gay people mak me spect that might be secretly homophobic. There is a meme on social media about Pri month that picts a slaverg creature straight out of Dante’s Inferno, enticg a long que of gays to s open mouth wh a strategilly placed rabow flag. Most rporatns were certaly not celebratg Pri que so openly before Sectn 28 was repealed 2003, or before the age of nsent was equalised 2001, or before the crimalisatn of homosexualy Stland 1980.

Siarly, now that pani appear to be lockstep when to explog the history of gay rights for a quick buck, isn’t all that surprisg that Avanti would claim that s new Pri tra aims to ‘brg people of lour, transgenr people and those livg wh or who have been lost to HIV/AIDS to the foreont’. To me, the ia of celebratg one’s heterosexualy, homosexualy or bisexualy mak about as much sense as feelg pri about beg right-hand or blue-eyed.

It jt strik me as a shame that the flag no longer appears to be a symbol of empowerment or a tribute to the succs of historil gay stggl, but is rather a tool for avaric rporatns and a signal of one’s fealty to a divisive iologil worldview. Ltle wonr, then, that more and more gay people are feelg unfortable about the Pri flag and the var LGBT ialisms. Even Stonewall, the UK’s pre-ement gay-rights group, is stokg divisn wh s homophobic refn of ‘homosexualy’ as ‘same-genr attractn’ rather than ‘same-sex attractn’.

‘PRI MONTH IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULO,’ YOUNG GAY MAN SAYS TWEET RANT

If we’re ser about gay equaly, ’s time to jettison this self-satirisg and self-dulgent brand of inty polics and foc on our mon humany. Before you start llg me homophobic, I'm pansexual and genr fluid.

It should be, straight for oppose sex, gay for same sex, bi for both sex, pan for both sex and nonbary, and maybe poly for open relatnships, but even that is a lot. The chang to the flag, to me the gay flag was and always will be the rabow flag, but now that's for pri and the gay flag is somethg else or whatever??? Someone asked me the other day: "Why do you put transgenr people and gay people the same tegory?

12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID

" The only sensible answer I uld e up wh is that gay and transgenr people are generally pretty acceptg of each other. I am more than jt gay, I am a nerd, I like programmg. Nobody gets labelled "straight" and then that's , so why do that happen to gay and transgenr people?

Or gay pri.

Not all of are like the people, fact, I thk very few of are, but bee of gay pri paras and thgs like that, this is what the world thks beg gay means! The only thg that's different is that (for gay/bisexual people) we like the same genr, or (for transgenr people) that we were born wh the wrong genals (OK, that's a huge simplifitn, but you get where I'm g om).