Me for the Epoch Times: Pride Month Finally Jumps the Shark
From my latest for the Epoch Times:
Gay-pride parades always had a raunchy side, but they usually took place in urban settings where people uninterested in LGBTQ life or offended by LGBTQ morality could ignore them. But as LGBTQ people became an important political constituency for the Democratic Party, and corporate America came to perceive them as an important customer base, Pride Month celebrations, pushed by aggressive LGBTQ activists, were suddenly everywhere. In schools, libraries and government buildings, in bars, restaurants, sports events, retail stores, and advertising of every variety. The LGBTQ activists became even more aggressive, determined to shove their mores into everyone else’s face. And so we’ve had such Pride Month spectacles this year as transwoman Rose Montoya stripping to the waist and baring her augmented breasts at a June 10 Pride celebration on the White House lawn. Or the Los Angeles Dodgers giving a community-service award on June 16 to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag queens who mock and parody Catholic nuns.
Second, Pride Month promoters have begun targeting children. Pride Month used to be an adults-only phenomenon, although some progressive parents did sometimes bring their children to the parades. But over the past decade transgender people—the “T” in “LGBTQ”—and their epigones, drag queens, have taken over the leadership and become the public face of the Pride movement, pushing aside the gay men and lesbians who were historically its spokesmen. It’s an imperative of transgender ideology that children should learn about and express their “gender identity” when as young as possible, and that they receive “gender-affirming care”—that is, radical hormonal and surgical interventions—as early as possible, preferably before they’ve matured into their hated adult biological bodies. And so we have Drag Queen Story Hour, “multiple gender expressions” kids’ clothing, and classrooms sessions for five-year-olds where they learn to explore alternate gender and sexual identities, often without the knowledge, much less consent, of their parents. This year, when the Washington Post ran a Page 1 story on June 11 about a Pride Month parade in downtown Washington, the photo it chose for illustrating the story wasn’t of any of the LGBTQ marchers. It was of a 7-year-old girl, twerking.
So not surprisingly there’s been a backlash. People are starting to resent what they believe is the compulsory celebration of a tiny minority of fellow humans with whom they don’t necessarily identify. And what they rightly perceive as the inappropriate sexualization of children. Perhaps Pride Month promoters should reflect on the original “pride month” in 1969. It lasted only six days. It wasn’t a top-down government or Big Business operation, and the people who cheered it on were there because they wanted to be there.
Read the whole thing here.
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