Every year I pick up a little muffled background noise about straight couples, or schoolkid tourists at Pride (parades/parties/events) and pushback, etc. I’d been writing that off as one more interminable allyship/purity/community shitshow and didn’t feel obligated to pay attention

But is it really a concern that these newcomers have the wrong political meaning, or a concern that they don’t have any political meaning at all?

Looking at it through my “the meaning of holidays is important” lens, is the actual concern - and this is a real question to people who go to these things or run in these scenes - that “Pride” celebrations are degenerating from a gay thing to a universal sex holiday with gays as mascots as “The Sex People”, just like St. Patrick’s went from an Irish thing to a universal drinking holiday with the Irish as mascots as “The Drinking People”?