A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.
It just goes to show that when they talk about the LGBTQ+ community “targeting kids,” it is, once again, entirely projection.
Also, I’m not heterosexual and I’m not young anymore, but does their explanation sound as cringey as I think it does? I get the same vibe as whenever an adult tries to make something “cool,” and because they pushed it, it instantly becomes uncool.
20 years ago I would have taken this as satire. Today, reality is far more absurd.
They clearly don’t understand what pride is about, or why it’s needed in the first place. I don’t go around showing my “straight pride” because there is literally nobody out there trying to make me ashamed of being straight. Never in my entire life have I felt unsafe because I was straight. I never had to worry about my family rejecting me if they learned I was straight. Being straight has never affected my housing security. I have not been subjected to verbal and physical assault because I am straight. Nobody has ever, to the best of my knowledge, been sent a brainwashing camp for being straight. There is not a single country on earth where it is illegal to be straight, and there never has been.
You cannot say any of those things about being gay. That’s why gay pride matters. These are not problems of the past. They are all problems today.