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What’s my unpopular opinion in regards to the LGBT community?The Gay Pride Parade/Events no longer serve the purpose that they once did anymore.What’s the original purpose of Gay Pride you may ask? The Gay Pride marches in the United States originated from the Stonewall Riots in 1969, which began after a police raid on a gay bar in New York City.This was how the first Gay Pride march looked like in New York City:The Gay Pride March was about standing in solidarity against the harassment and oppression against those who were homosexual, bi-sexual, and transgender. There was a grassroots feel to the events, and attendee’s weren’t necessarily celebrating their orientation, but standing in solidarity with others against what they viewed as oppression to their community. Furthermore, they demanded for rights and to be treated as normal human beings instead of how they had been at the time of the riots.Fast forward to the most recent times and you will see this at Gay Pride marches and events:Feeling oppressed? Please drink our latest collection of wines!I feel oppressed so I have to march around New York City with a gigantic green penis!“I’m not a lesbian, but I attend this event acting excessively promiscuous because I know that the men there won’t hit on me and to have a fun time!”Nowadays, Gay Pride events are sponsored by corporate businesses that want to make a profit off of wealthy homosexuals or at least those wanting to attend a “fun” event. The attitude doesn’t seem to be about fighting against oppression anymore, but rather an excuse to be promiscuous and excessive in every manner possible.I would honestly listen to the gay rights activists who were protesting after the Stonewall riots than someone who’s dressed like the man pictured below, who then claims to be “binary” in a sorry excuse to wanting to use the women’s restroom at a hotel where I recently worked as a bouncer.Is Gay Pride even about standing up to oppression or an excuse to walk around a city in your underwear?The Gay Pride events of today are detrimental to the actual issues at hand, and are merely now events where participants get wasted, do things that can get them arrested for public indecency, and somehow wonder why most of society still doesn’t accept them for who they are.

Exact definitions aside, I think what you’re trying to ask is whether it’s OK to be trans and not participate in LGBT activites like support groups, meet-ups, and pride events.Here’s what I’ve come to realise:As I was googling for tips about attending pride events for the first time (I’m undecided as to whether to attend one tomorrow), I came across this article[1] which consisted of FAQs - with the last question being “What if I’m queer but don’t want to celebrate Pride?”, to which the writer answered, “Then don’t! If Pride is not your thing, you shouldn’t feel pressured to go.”A couple of doctors I’ve been meeting with here in the US who are aware that I’m transgender asked whether I was out and whether I would like to join in some activities or get involved in the community. They made it very clear that it was completely up to me whether I wanted to or not.Those are the reasons why I think it’s fine.I appreciate and am indebted to all the out LGBT people who have blazed the trail so that I can easily be who I am (at least for the moment while I’m here in the US) - but the fact that I’m thankful doesn’t oblige me to be as vocal as them.Footnotes[1] Everything You Need to Know Before Your First Time at LGBTQ+ Pride

It depends on the particulars and the participants. Because I’m not a crybaby (and yes you are if, in this era of unparalleled surfeit and liberty you run around looking for things to be offended about) I refuse to care —much less fret about— people gathering together peacefully to celebrate some (ultimately meaningless) aspect of their existence.Because I’m an adult, I don’t allow myself to become addicted to negative motivations to validate my life unless there is a serious threat to life, liberty and/or property (and not something I claimed is harmful because it runs contarte to my tribal beliefs). I can find motivation from within and not a Rube Goldberg machine of “causality”, hyperbolic claims and emotional pique. A quick and easy way to do this:Associate with people who think vastly differently than you.Apply a bit of Socratic method to your values and REALLY not “fake” argue against them.Straight pride is not a priori bad. Pride is good. Only in dumdum land does “black lives matter” = “white lives don’t”. Nor do you and your whiny little tribe get to invent new moral rules out of nowhere about what is right and wrong. A thing is wrong only if it harms. Not offends. Not inconveniences. We all do things that might offend others. I like ass sex with a variety of men my husband have over. You maybe don’t. Maybe it offends your morals or your religion. That’s not a big deal.If straight people wanted to do a Pride event to show their happy, welcoming nature they could just march in the regular Pride celebrations that have morphed from “Gay Pride” to just “Pride” to allow all people of any sexual diversity (including straight folks) to come out and celebrate. Or they can make a new one. I’m game. Just like regular Pride and regular Saint Patrick’s day lets anybody come out and celebrate, if your “Straight Pride” worked like that (to build and open the community and not destroy and/or isolate), then it’s good.The devil is in the details.