This Pri month, fellow gays, keep your kks at home — and away om kids

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THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS

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. * 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. 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.

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. There’s a long and dark history of bigots suggtg gay people are out to get kids or more likely to sexually abe mors, spe many studi and expert nsens showg such a rrelatn do not exist.

‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

But when a select few gay people do openly engage simulated sex acts ont of children — somethg all normal, everyday gay people would nounce — and go viral, plays to the unfair stereotyp and sets back the progrs we’ve ma, even though ’s not reprentative.

13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD

Some people have been sharg imag of queer ins and homophob alike wearg exprsns of disapproval—RuPl owng on the phone, Ltle Edie rantg Grey Garns, Aunt Lydia swlg The Handmaid’s Tale.

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‘We say gay’: Florida’s largt Pri para draws hundreds of thoands .

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