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\u2019d been writing that off as one more interminable allyship/purity/community shitshow and didn\u2019t 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\u2019t have any political meaning at all?
Looking at it through my \u201cthe meaning of holidays is important\u201d lens, is the actual concern - and this is a real question to people who go to these things or run in these scenes - that \u201cPride\u201d celebrations are degenerating from a gay thing to a universal sex holiday with gays as mascots as \u201cThe Sex People\u201d, just like St. Patrick\u2019s went from an Irish thing to a universal drinking holiday with the Irish as mascots as \u201cThe Drinking People\u201d?
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