'Pride Month'

Came up in game and was tired of heated chat so started here

Should there be a Pride Month? Why is there no Straight Pride Month? What is the point of Pride Month? Why do LGBTQQIAP people think they need it?

Discuss.

 

It's silly
surely having this month dedicated to gays contradicts their equality beliefs

try having people have a straight month then see what happens

 

There's a pride month because being lgbt+ used to be a problem and used to be something you should be proud of showing.

Now its nowhere near as much of a problem but its still fun.

 

Agreed. There shouldn't be pride for being different. Just accept who you are; you don't need others to tell you it's okay.

 

its a celebration of having overdue rights man

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if it isn't meant to directly offend or cause you discomfort why do you care

 

I don't care, that's just my opinion on the issue. I didn't make this thread did I?

 

Historically, it was necessary. It started off from the Stonewall riots which were the first time LGBT people in the US mobilized to fight for their rights. It happened June 28th. Eventually, a tradition continued of having parades, instead of riots, and they were held sometime in June. This is why June became pride month.


It's not really "necessary" anymore, but I consider it a great time to celebrate one's history. I don't see the problem with celebrating. Nobody has to be part of pride month if they don't want to. Like many other people who have days dedicated to celebrating who they are, why can't LGBT people have the same?

Reason there's no straight pride month is because straight people were never in a position where they had to fight for their rights by literally rioting in the streets.

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Kind of has to do with the fact that many people say "straight pride" for the purpose of "triggering" people.

 

NO ONE SHOULD BE PROUD

BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES

YOU'RE ALL LOSERS

 

whatever make a straight pride month, does gays having a pride month really give you a disadvantage at all

 

Go ahead and celebrate. I have no objections.

There is an unofficial "Heterosexual Awareness Month", but the problem I have with it is that the people who are celebrating it all post pretty homophobic content and just try to make it seem like gays are bad. I would have no issue with it if the people celebrating it would respect LGBT people just as they do themselves.

 

When are people shamed for not celebrating pride month, black history month, or women's history month?

 

Yep. All this month does is divide us. Why can't we all celebrate together? Although this month is supposedly celebrating equality, all it really does is highlight the differences between people. It is one big oxymoron. Now let me say that this statement isn't just targeted to Gay Pride month, but all the months that are now apparently dedicated to a single group's history. If everyone wants equality so bad, why divide us?

 

Now yout understand how Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Women, and LGBT felt throughout all of American History. Just being born a certain way was frowned upon by society, and you're sad that people frown if you say something that you actually have control over saying?! Gtfoh. Your complaint is the same thing they've been complaining about for atleast 100 years: They are Black, Hispanic, Women, or LGBT and should be able to be proud of that if they want to. Unfortunately white males do a good job of discouraging that pride; just like how you're victimizing yourself in order to oppress their celebrations.

Asians definitely have had their share of struggles, did you not know about the Asian American internment camps they were forced into?

Lol! Now you know how they feel.

Blacks, Hispanics, and Women felt left out when they couldn't vote.

Blacks and Hispanics felt left out when they couldn't go to a business or equal education school that was made strictly for White people.

Blacks, Women, Native Americans, Hispanics, and LGBT+ felt left out when mainstream society deemed them as undesirable people.

But god-forbid a straight white man feels left out, right?

Are you seriously this ignorant?

 

That's why I hate all these equality groups, it's all so hypocritcal.

 

please take a history class

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066

 

we are murdered in our only safe places and you ask us why we need time to remind ourselves that we deserve to exist

 

TF does the QUAP mean? I only remembered LGBTQ, and my brother is gay ffs

Also, White history month is april.

 

I believe it's Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Pansexual

 

^ this exactly

we aern't even safe inside of safe places. we want to be safe even outside of safe places. you have to make something known for it to be respected. pride months are exactly that. we're not a trend or a fad. we're a part of history.