Originally Posted by
Buster11
I think it's the "Pride" bit that rankles with me; why on earth should I be expected to be proud of gays or them to be proud of themselves? I'm not particularly proud of heterosexuals or people with artificial limbs or gentlemen aged 84 or people who have ginger hair. They exist, just as the rest of us do, so why do we have to be incessantly told about this particular lot? The rest of the population don't seem to need to have attention drawn to themselves.
Perhaps they’re proud of themselves, and want to flaunt it.
I mean, it’s not like we spent years kicking people out on the simple basis of who they loved, or viewed them as security risks. And we definitely didn’t have laws passed banning the “promotion” of gays or lesbians.
The “rest of the population” can quite happily walk around holding hands with their lovers, but even today gays and lesbians are abused and assaulted for doing just that. In the UK. In 2019.
So why shouldn’t they be bloody well proud of who and what they are, for just 8 hours?