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US OLYMPIAN SLAMS ‘RIDICULO’ GAY LUGE AD

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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.

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

'Passag' is NC-17, 'Red, Whe & Royal Blue' is R—are gay films beg rated on a stricter sle? * ridiculous gay *

While the worship of Michel Fouult is somewhat outdated amic circl ( 1995, Queer Theorist David M Halper even went so far as to wre a book lled Sat Fouult: Towards a Gay Haggraphy), the re ias have found their way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

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

“The Gam have always been a ltle gay. Let’s fight to keep them that way," stat the ad. * ridiculous gay *

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. 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.

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

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.

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