Why I Hate Pride Month (as a gay man)

It's been hijacked by corporate crooks & woke ideologoues

I just wanted to fit in.

For the first quarter of my life I wanted to be normal. Like everyone else. I didn’t want to be different. I just wanted to fit in.

There was a part of myself that I didn’t want to accept.

But there was no way around it. There came a time when I had to address it.

We’ve all had our own coming out story. If it’s not about sexuality then it’s about values or norms or culture.

It took me a long time to come to terms with this part of myself. I had to confront it head on. And so, with time, I came to accept my own reality.

This is a difficult article for me to write. It is in a sense a second coming out. As a gay man society expects me to be a proud supporter of pride month and everything that it represents. But my sexuality makes up just a small part of my identity. It does not define me.

Before we get started what actually is pride month?

Pride Month, sometimes specified as LGBT Pride Month, is a monthlong observance dedicated to the celebration of LGBT pride, commemorating the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture and community.^[1] Pride Month is observed in June in the United States, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests.

This is what Pride is according to Wikipedia.

Pride used to mean taking pride in being yourself. In fully embracing who you are. Refusing to remain in an arbitrarily constructed box. Not conforming to what society wants us to be.

Pride was about have the courage to forge our your unique path and to stand up to power and police brutality. It was in essence anti establishment and a celebration of the sovereign individual.

That might have been how it started but that’s not how it’s going.

Pride month has been hijacked by corporate crooks but more on that later.

As a white gay male I do feel a part of the LGBTQI+** (add your favourite star here) or whatever else you want to call it - community. The goal posts have shifted, definitions have changed.

The whole thing has been thrust into the mainstream and coopted by a toxic woke ideology.

To lump transgener or gender dysmorphia together with homosexuality is bizarre to me. These are two very different separate realities. It is unhelpful to all parties involved to treat them as somehow the same.

What do we do with the soldiers when the war is won?

It is not a  coincidence that the trans debate started to gain traction in the mid 2010’s.

Why?

Around this time gay marriage was being legalised in many countries across the western world including the US, UK, Italy and France.

This was the final hurdle. The last impediment for homosexuals to be treated equally under the law.

The war had been won. People agreed that gay men and women were in fact not mentally ill. Regardless of what certain religious scriptures said we were evolved enough in our thinking to put that aside.

…and so what now?

The left required another lacking minority to champion their cause to maintain relevance.

Once a movement gains government backing and government finance it never slows and it’s never successful. The war on drugs. The war on poverty. The war on inequality and now the war against the majority.

It continues to gobble up resources and attention in an attempt to further its own cause.

As gay marriage was legalised and the majority of people were satisfied nobody paused to think of the activists. The people who had dedicated their lives to furthering the cause. To fighting injustice and speaking to power.

What happens to the soldiers when the war is won?

Are they content to go home? To settle down? To retire from the fight and be content to relish their victory and all that they have accomplished?

Well maybe some of them.

But for others the taste of battle is intoxicating. Just like the business man who exits his company, only to start a new one the very same day, is it not the same for those fighting injustice?

As countries across the western world legalised gay marriage and accepted homosexuals into society a new war was set in motion.

This is the moment when woke ideology and DEI (diversity, Equity and inclusion) forced their way into the mainstream.

The reason I hate pride month is because it has been hijacked by an ideological movement that is in and of itself exclusionary, intolerant and violent. It stands in direct violation of the very values that Pride initially was founded on.

Arguments based on race, gender and identity should alarm us. The fact that they are positioned as preventing discrimination is not reassuring. A quick glance at the cultural reality lays the hypocrisy bare for all to see.

In today’s contradictory world to be born gay is now (the last 10 years) something to be applauded in the west. To be born British, German or American is something which you should be ashamed of and distance yourself from.

As the woke mob rails against nationalism they worship diversity.

Why is the relevant?

The left and right exist on a constant scale of dynamic tension. If culture swings to far to one side things get ugly very quickly and the pendulum inevitably always swings back.

A brief glance in the rearview mirror of history can give a much needed insight in attempting to explain the present.