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Originally posted by hello_world
I'd say that gay pride has become more prominent because of those things, rather than those things being indirctly caused by gay pride.
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That makes absolutely no sense. Gay pride parades were the central part of the beginning of the gay rights movement. "Those things" all DIRECTLY come from gay pride and that entire movement. Gay pride is how people began to even TALK about homosexuality as something other than a complete evil in the first place!
Do you even know what the Stonewall Riots were? How much of gay history are you actually aware of?
You also still have yet to address the fact that gay pride parades are a massive tourism draw and extremely popular with straight people as well.
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An impressionable person could see that, not want to be a part of it and think that makes them 'a bad gay'.
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An impressionable person could see that, realize that there's other gay people like them in the world, and feel empowered to be themselves.
Stop acting like there's no diversity in gay pride parades. In every pride parade I've attended, there have been scantily clad guys on floats, but there have also been professional, religious, and other social groups. There is representation for MANY different kinds of people at pride parades because the entire point is to be inclusive.
And guess what? PFLAG, organizations of STRAIGHT family members of gay people, march in the parades as well!
Stop relying on hypothetical examples and give me some actual facts.