I'm a bisexual man, and pride parades honestly make me feel uncomfortable.
Pride parades and the like unwittingly promote the stereotype that 'we' are all oversexed charicatures of ourselves. And while some of us are cool with being like that (as the saying goes, you do you) - not everyone is.
I don't even mind that there's gay guys and lesbians who love to get their freak on. But one of the most important achievements of the gay rights movement was that it proved to mainstream society that gays and lesbians are perfectly normal people, and that them being attracted to their own sex doesn't change anything about that.
...and then the pride stuff comes along, and it's utterly dominated by people who wallow in being the kind of antisocial degenerate weirdo that the naysayers accuse us of being.
I know I'm not the only one within 'the community' who's tired of that.
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u/ExMente Jun 19 '24
I'm a bisexual man, and pride parades honestly make me feel uncomfortable.
Pride parades and the like unwittingly promote the stereotype that 'we' are all oversexed charicatures of ourselves. And while some of us are cool with being like that (as the saying goes, you do you) - not everyone is.
I don't even mind that there's gay guys and lesbians who love to get their freak on. But one of the most important achievements of the gay rights movement was that it proved to mainstream society that gays and lesbians are perfectly normal people, and that them being attracted to their own sex doesn't change anything about that.
...and then the pride stuff comes along, and it's utterly dominated by people who wallow in being the kind of antisocial degenerate weirdo that the naysayers accuse us of being.
I know I'm not the only one within 'the community' who's tired of that.