Exactly.But what do rainbow crossings do other than annoy people? Scarlett I’m sorry you feel let down by stonewall and your community. I found your comments interesting because I’m straight and I have gay friends and even if I didn’t I would support gay rights and will not let a homophonic comment go unchecked (and sadly there is still so much homophobia about so even just last week I had to pull my brother up for an ignorant comment he made about 2 gay teenagers he saw holding hands ffs). But I’m getting so sick of rainbows and pride to me it’s doing nothing for the cause of unity and equality. It’s pushing us further apart. It’s ‘othering’ gay people even more. It doesn’t make me judge gay people for it, I actually put the blame firmly with corporations and media execs who are ticking diversity boxes for the sake of it. We are supppsed to ‘celebrate’ people for being gay, but why? A close friend of mine who is a lesbian agrees and we have a running joke where she demands a rainbow fanfare on a night out as she is the only gay one in our group. To be showered in glitter Gay people just want to live their lives like everyone else! I don’t know exactly where I’m going with this but the constant lgbt messages we as a society as subjected to is OTT imo and possibly doing more harm than good.
Someone made a fake wiki page about the Pride calendar for 2023, it was basically every day of the year. Ironically it’s not that far from the truth! We have Pride month now. Why a month? You’re right it’s a lot about corporate virtue signals and consumerism.
There is no Disabilities month, or Racism month. No police car drives round with disability colours all over them, even the trains to and from the Glasgow action on Sunday were LGBTQIAA colours! This is not appropriate! It’s special treatment and it IS causing resentment. Deservedly so.
Trans Day of Remembrance! Not a single trans person died in the UK in the last two years yet Surrey Police stood by a trans flag at their local cenotaph for a minute’s silence on the day. Wtf? They never do anything like that for old people or disabled people or people with autism, or gay people! It’s all about the trans and it’s broken the gay movement. Those of us that speak up are ostracised. That’s why we formed LGB Alliance.
I shall stop and calm down now as I could go on and on!