I fought for gay rights — but trans activists have stroyed the meang of Pri

Contents:

• I FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS — BUT TRANS ACTIVISTS HAVE STROYED THE MEANG OF PRI
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY
• REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH

I FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS — BUT TRANS ACTIVISTS HAVE STROYED THE MEANG OF PRI

I’m old enough to have been active gay rights when you uld be arrted some Amerin jurisdictns for a kiss. Then gay rights emerged, and Pri march — i.

The sponsorships were lculated acts, predited on the termatn the pani volved would w more gay ctomers than lose anti-gay ctomers. Why should gays ntue to be sgled out, even for the purpose of beg celebrated? Beg gay is an attribute, not an acplishment.

Then there’s this: Pri Month isn’t jt about gays anymore. It’s about the whole “LGBTQI+” crowd — a “muny” most gays never asked to jo and whose guidg iology mak most of scratch our heads nfn. Ined, we’re the odd posn of seeg what ed to be our movement -opted by activists whose wacky theori about the nature of genr renr such labels as male and female, gay and straight, utterly meangls.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

Not many people, gay or straight. Why, then, are major firms — the kd that, years ago, were reluctant to dip their to too early to the still-chilly waters of the gay-rights movement — phg this creepy new stuff so eagerly? And they learned ’s ol to be “queer” — which has nothg to do wh beg gay but means, rather, that one’s inty is, some way, tensn wh mastream norms.

Trans, queer, woke: It’s all part of the same iologil grab bag, along wh the weird new termatn to expose kids to drag queens (a ty subset of gay people who have no more bs practicg their craft ont of mors than hookers or morticians).

But ’s beg phed relentlsly by groups like Human Rights Campaign (a gay-rights anizatn turned avid promoter of transgenrism) and, as printial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has noted, by giant vtment bankers like BlackRock and Vanguard Group that, for whatever reason, are voutly mted to the woke agenda. Compani like Nike or Starbucks n more easily create products or mpaigns around gay and transgenr issu or Pri Month bee their nsumers tend to be younger and more progrsive, said David Johnson, the chief executive of Strategic Visn PR Group Atlanta. “When they embrace the gay or transgenr muny, ’s not out of le wh their re beliefs, ” he said.

REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH

Levi’s has a mpaign showg a half-dozen gay and transgenr people talkg about how they show up while wearg the pany’s nim and a number of other pani are beg much ls forthg about specific Pri Month plans. “Whe gay men are the one segment that are most likely reprented on our screens, whether ’s programg or ads, ” said Lisette Arsuaga, -founr of the Alliance for Inclive and Multicultural Marketg.

lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny (LGBTQ muny), also lled LGBTQ+ muny, any untry, regn, cy, or other loly, a group of persons who intify as lbian, gay ( the narrow sense of beg a male who is sexually or romantilly attracted to other mal), bisexual, transgenr, or queer and who feel some gree of empathy and solidary wh each other based on their shared experience of prejudice, discrimatn, and disrpect or their awarens of the historil and ntemporary opprsn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) persons.

Particular genr inti shared wh LGBTQ muni are discsed the articl homosexualy, lbianism, bisexualy, transgenr, and queer. The historil and ntemporary stggl of LGBTQ muni for equal legal and civil rights are discsed the article gay rights movement; see also same-sex marriage. Tangible evince of cultural progrs — a giant beer maker partnerg wh a transgenr fluencer, for example — is now often met wh fire and brimstone om right-wg fact, new rearch found that the recent effort to roll back gas for gay and trans Amerins spiked durg Pri celebratns, cludg "blue" stat such as California, which was home to a full 1 5 of the anti-LGBTQ+ monstratns last month, acrdg to the Armed Conflict Lotn and Event Data Project.