The show queer as folk does a lovely scene that is similar to what you just said. It was a pretty powerful moment for the time it was on the air.
No one is saying you canât feel how you feel about gay or whatever, you just canât treat people differently for it. Pride was created as a way to memorialize those lost and the rights they fought for. Seeing as you know? We still arenât treated equally. Seeing as members of the lgbtq community are harassed, beaten, or killed on a regular bases based on their orientation. I doubt youâve been accosted or harassed or as a personal example attacked at a bar because of your sexual orientation.
I was standing waiting for a drink at a bar and a guy got in my face.
Pride is a way to bring visibility excuse when you are in the shadows youâre unprotected. When you move towards being out in all forms of media you are then allowed afforded more security.
Weâre bars raided and straight people thrown in jail because they were at a gay bar? No.
Nice straw man argument though
Iâve never heard of the show, but then again, Iâve never been big on watching television. I tend to prefer my media in the form of escapism.
Itâs one of my favs. Some of the topics covered in it are a tad out dated but for the time it was on air? Wonderful. Iâm talking about the US version.
Context: The character getting this speech done to him is Emmett. After a scare where he thinks he might have aids he prays to be clean. When its revealed heâs fine, he tries to force himself to be straight.
Thankfully he realizes forcing himself to be straight is silly.
That is a pretty powerful speech, yeah. Almost had to reach for the tissues.
I went the other direction with my thinking though, and just turned away from religion in general. The more I researched its history, the more it seemed to be just another power structure â the organized stuff, anyway.
This really isnât the thread to have that particular discussion though, but I do thank you for sharing the clip!
Iâm sorry you are choosing to get bent out of shape over words on the internet. At this point Iâve had enough reading your whining and am simply going to chalk up your responses to your being a part of generation offended.
Itâs not my job to track down the original comment in order to reply to a response to it if someone chose to chop out a part of it. Thatâs why I had no issue with admitting to having been missing context and didnât disagree with the fellow who corrected me once I realized that I was mistaken.
Furthermore, you do realize anyone can incorrectly interpret a statement and be offended by it, no one is required to give a ratâs backside about whether you were insulted or chose to take offense to something, right?
Good day.
Because the entire reason het people do it is to be bigots.
Pride parades are done as a way to increase visibility and awareness.
Heteronormative imagery is literally all around us. You canât escape it. Thereâs no âissueâ when we see it. Itâs seen as ânormalâ and it doesnât blip on anyoneâs radars.
As soon as something includes other-than-het imagery, the klaxons come on, itâs decried as âpoliticalâ, or as a way to âfill a quotaâ. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! They claim âwell, itâs ok if itâs not done to fill quota or as panderingâ, but no matter how low-key it ends up being, itâs ALWAYS claimed to be that by the idiots who make those sorts of statements in the first place.
Take the Overwatch comic that established Tracer as lesbian. All it did was just have her having a talk with her partner. Her orientation wasnât even a plot point in the story, it was just something visible. Also, when 76âs husband was just casually mentioned. It was low-key, it wasnât made a point, it was justâŠthere.
âŠand the jerks still got all up in arms about it, callingit âpanderingâ or âquota-fillingâ, etc. I suspect most of those complaining were too attached to their het fantasies ofâŠbeing withâŠTracer, or to their macho fantasies of Soldier 76 and that somehow 76 being at-least-bi meant he wasnât a âtough guyâ anymore or something.
It turns out that to many who call for âlower keyâ representationâŠit actually means none at all.
This is why we march for Pride.
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History month?
You would have to have some history for that to workâŠ
No worries mate.
We do have history.
You âassumeâ I have an agenda. But really, thatâs just your insecurities again at play. I simply have a different opinion than you, and the fact that I do clearly enrages you; given the amount of posting youâve done on the matter.
Iâll repeat again what I said before. Have a wonderful evening.
And donât bother with another long winded reply. I wonât see it.
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Yeah I edited my post twice to address you, which is a feature I am entitled to use as is everyone, its called the edit tool
Cool since your original reply to me was one big long TLDR and most of my response to you was your own posts back to you, I guess not even you wanted to read what you had to say.
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On another lighter note
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Thatâs one of those things that I see and Iâm like, âThatâs neat,â while thinking, âBut I would never risk getting that close to a wild animal that much larger than me.â
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Just trying to keep the peace somewhat with cute
I like to think that me being cute does keep the peace 
Cute is justice.
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I donât care if youâre into men, women, both or stinkinâ sheep. It doesnât need to be advertised. Very few people probably want to know anyways.
Nothing personal. Some of this stuff just doesnât need to make an appearance everwhere.
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Okay then lets not advertise any het non lgbt relationship in the game.
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Iâll never get over how many times you hear someone plays with their wife, gf etc. but the second a LGBTQ person says something like that, itâs in their face, political, they know lgbtq people who donât do that, they arenât against it justâŠ
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Kicks back and roasts some shrimp on the barbie and cracks a cold one open with the lads as we watch this thread crumble into oblivion.