It was St. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
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- THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS
- ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
- 13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD
THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS
* sexualizing kids in gay pride parades *
The middle-aged, Whe men who I grew up wh said they were “fe” wh gay people as long as they wouldn’t be subjected to PDA — as long as all signs of queer love uld be outwardly erased.
‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
And as a parent, I might want to take my kids to Pri, bee they might be lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer or two-spir. After the June 1969 raid of New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn, a seri of uprisgs began, and sparked the gay liberatn movement.
13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD
But as a member of the gay muny, I thk we ought to have a reckong over why kk is nflated wh LGBT pri at all. So to nflate beg gay wh preferenc and extracurricular sexual activi people choose to engage is to do our own inti and legimacy a tremendo disservice.
The succsful effort to sell the public on gay marriage, the sgle biggt acplishment of the gay-rights movement, was fundamentally rooted bourgeois norms, fay valu and, ankly, normalcy. So, too, this unfortunate trend plays to old homophobic prejudic and unfair stereotyp some people still subscribe to.