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I don't get the whole pride thing to begin with. It is like some sort of extreme attention seeking.

It really depends on if you actually mean pride or if they should have a movement. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in who you are be that gay straight bi black white or purple. The problem comes when people believe that what they are is the only 'Right' way to be. As long as your 'pride' won't make someone else feel as though they don't have a right to celebrate their 'pride' and vice versa then go nuts. Just do you and don't worry about anyone else. heart heart heart

Both sides seem silly.
Though pride events were started to bring the minorities into the light, rather than the dark corner most were shoved in, that's pretty much not what they are now.

So, if taken from the original standpoint, straights don't really "need" pride parades. They make up the majority of the populous, they're not shoved into any dark corner.

However, now they seem to be an excuse to be exceptionally garish. So meh.

LGBT Pride isn't about being proud. Its about visibility. There are Pride parades for visibility. The first Pride parade was formed because if people didn't even know gay people are here, then how can we begin to get rights? Back in the day, being out was so taboo and dangerous that hardly anybody was. Pride was about coming out and being visible in a very obvious way in order to show people we need rights.

My point was simple what is good for the goose is good for the gander. According to the world if I am born as a heterosexual male that is not something to be proud of. So I say if homosexuals can be proud of their homosexuality why am I not allowed to be proud of my heterosexuality. The same question homosexuals asked when it came to marriage. How is love any different between two people of the same gender and two people of the opposite gender?

The fact is that equality goes both ways not that Social Justice Warriors will admit it. Just as marriage should be about love and not what is between your legs. Someone should be able to feel pride about their preferred gender not just how oppressed their sexual orientation was. If I cannot say Straight Pride, you cannot say Gay Pride it is as simple as that. Because to vilify one and not the other is not equality. Either it is all great or neither is great. Pretending that just because one was more oppressed than the other gives more validity to their cause invalidates the point of equality.

When you say something is no okay you kill equality plain and simple.

Any form of pride is unnecesary and these flags on Gaia should have never been here in the first place.

I don't care about gay rights, it's nice they can marry in the states but I don't feel affected personally since I don't live in the states nor am I gay (obviously). I wouldn't hinder gay people, but at the same time I wouldn't vouch for them either.