How will you recognize or celebrate Pride 2024?

I won't. Instead I'll no doubt listen to all the whinging right wingers claiming they "have no problem with gays but why do they all parade naked in front of children???" etc, despite the fact most people who go to Pride wear clothes (as the above photo attests).

I am waiting for the LGB pride. No interest in associating with the "TIQA+ " demographic that have given rise to the alt right gaining more power due to their public antics.

too many queers not enough gays.

I know *I* won’t be there, I left that trash heap as soon as I could

I’ll probably munch on some twink’s taint for a time.

I likely won’t be. Every time I’ve gone I didn’t feel it. It’s usually sensory overload and just not my thing.

OP asks how you will "recognize" Pride 2024.

Oh, dear.

I will kiss my husband and go about my normal routine. I used to love the Chicago Pride Parade when I lived there 20 years ago. Now where I live in a small city, the pride parade is a catch all of misfit toys and pathetic by anybody's standards.

R9 The “blue hair” crowd. 🤢

I live in a rural area and the closest town to me has only started having a Pride event in 2022. It doesn't have any funding, so it's just a 'walk' around the town for about a mile that's marshalled by volunteers and then they go to a local bar for drinks (the bar hangs up a few rainbow flags).

I've never seen anyone scantily clad on the walk and it's not publicly funded, but on the local Facebook group every year the usual right wingers cry about it. "Be gay if you like, but why ram it down our throats?!", or "I don't want to see gays walking naked in the street", etc.

There's still so much ignorance out there and they fail to appreciate that their homophobic shit is exactly why Pride events persist.

It won’t be hanging in Philly, that’s for damn sure. Yikes.

r12 = Brian Sims

[quote]R3: I am waiting for the LGB pride. No interest in associating with the "TIQA+ " demographic that have given rise to the alt right gaining more power due to their public antics.—The majority of us

The position you're taking marks 𝑦𝑜𝑢 as one of the alt right, or simply far right.

And those pushing the 'LGB' propaganda are not, and never will be, 'the majority of us.'

No one in the US cares how the Brits interpret all things gay.

[quote]R15: No one in the US cares how the Brits interpret all things gay.

Well, you don't seem to have a clue that R3 was promoting their astroturfed bullshit, and pretending to represent the majority of gays.

Sorry my native tongue not English. Doesn't philly mean horse?

Again no one cares about how it might be fined in the UK—

This is the UK, and one or two mutters on the DL aren’t relevant. Don’t project that shit on to us—thanks.

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Biting my pillow.

R17 that is filly, this is a nickname for Philadelphia.

NYer here, will skip the various Pride celebrations around the city because they are all too crowded.

[quote]R18: Again no one cares about how it might be fined in the UK—This is the UK, and one or two mutters on the DL aren’t relevant. Don’t project that shit on to us—thanks.

Hmm. You can't seem to decide if you're in the UK or not.

If you don't care about the LGB Alliance and its efforts to propagandize LGBTQs worldwide, then kindly direct your incoherent scorn at R3, who's the one promoting it on this thread.

It won’t be typical in Philly. Philly came up with that ridiculous black stripe rainbow flag. The LGBT city board is made up of all trannies and Jew haters. It’ll be one big Hamas celebration.

Pride parades have nothing to do with gays.

[quote] The position you're taking marks 𝑦𝑜𝑢 as one of the alt right, or simply far right.

And? The alt Right then doesn’t hate gays, whites, women or children.

Don’t forget Jews. Thr alt Left hates Jews with a passion.

The queers are already saying that if an attack happens at Pride parades, Zionists are the culprits.

It is not propagandizing the world. It’s on a tiny island of misfits that we all ignore. Take your poison somewhere else.

Enjoy it while it’s around. With control of all branches of government possibly in the hands of Republicans for the foreseeable future, taking away our freedom is their mission. They had no problem taking away abortion rights. We’re a lot less popular.

Heading to Gaza with a bunch of my BFF Queers for Palestine kweens. We're gonna eat ass all weekend!

I’m gay but Pride is not for me. It’s turned into St Patty’s Day.

The city I used to work in, the parade had no gays aside from drag queens. The rest were straight politicians, local business owners, and a few fat queer teenagers with blue hair. All wearing rainbow shit. More of a celebration of straight liberals demonstrating how progressive they are.

Again, not for me.

I’m guessing Boston’s Pride activities will again be curtailed due to infighting among the dykes, trans, and BIPOCs, with the unpleasantries in Israel adding some special sauce.

fucking cunts

I’m pretty introverted and prefer to get my June Pride fix here on Datalounge.

In my twenties, I went every year.

Do they have prides that are focused on one identity or is it always alphabet soup? Is there even such thing as a bisexual pride or lesbian pride or an asexual pride?

At home. Minding my business.

Eating GAYle’s snatch……aka making sweet, sweet love to my incredibly masculine and well hung man, STUDmen!!!!!

At home with my dogs and Etta.

Slapping faces viciously

I sure as hell ain’t going

Fucking my husband.

R40=Effie White

St. Pete has a [bold]huge[/bold] Pride parade, and I lived relatively close to part of the route, so I usually went. In fact, some years, I rode my motorcycle in the front of the parade with a slew of lesbians who had no clue how to ride in a parade. If you don't know what I mean, watch the police ride in a parade sometime -- they positively [italic]crawl[/italic], which is one of the hardest things to do on a motorcycle.

Anyway! I'm sure you can imagine how hot it was...and will be again. Blazing hot sun, ridiculous crowds. I'm sure if you're the type who loves sweat and its accompanying smells, you'd love it.

Orlando's Pride celebration is on National Coming Out Day in October, which makes a lot more sense here in sunny Florida. I've been to that one a couple of times, but not for years.

So no, I won't be doing anything. I've been out since I was a freshman in high school, and for my entire life, even though it radically effected my jobs/opportunities. I live my pride every day, so to me a parade is somewhat redundant.

No one asked about FL.

[quote]It’s turned into St Patty’s Day.

It's "Paddy."

Please don't say "Patty." It wounds.

I'm so tired of "pride" and rainbows and equal signs. I just don't want to be gay anymore; it's so 90s.

Do you want my itinerary for the whole month, OP?

I’m going to find new way each day to find how Marsha P Johnson changed the world. I’ll be excited to find out what happened on the 7th day.

R48, she rested.

I don’t really enjoy Pride. I don’t think I’ve really liked it since I was in college. Too crowded, too hot, too boring ( ugh, all those corporations and their boring ass employees).

So rather than be a spoiler and complain all day, I do something else.

To everything there is a season and the season of my life when Pride was a biggie is over.

I will be flying the most inclusive version of the Pride flag ever.

Note that one panel of the otherwise red umbrella (which represents sex workers) shows the colors of the disability flag, while the purple and yellow circles represent the intersex community!

R48 the first PRIDE parade was in LA, not NYC.

Perhaps I fly a gray ace flag, perhaps I don’t. I’m neutral to mostly everything really. It’s usually not very relatable to me at all. Especially now that it’s commercialized and as easy to find as a Walgreens.

I used to enjoy taking part in Gay Pride events, but now that they're just celebrating "Pride", I don't much bother!

It was all much better when it was just a weekend, nobody needs this for a whole month!

The same thing my dog does on the 4th of July, hid in my bathtub. It is just so over blown.

I’m going to coke out on Tina

I don’t recognize it for the simple reason that it’s not Gay Pride anymore.

Everybody be careful if you go to a pride event, particularly the big ones. Lots of chatter about domestic terrorism at a pride event on the level of the attack in Russia by ISIS. I know. MARY. But be aware of your surroundings and look for exits, etc.

chatter is meaningless

R59, that is a good advice anywhere for many reasons, not just terrorism. Pride participants aren't high value targets at the moment. They will attack Jews, Jewish venues and the mainstream, non-muslim population. This is practically inevitable.

I feel like all these “warnings” of terrorism is a way of people. Trying to make sure Pride doesn’t happen.

I agree, it's meaningless

R52, I saw one the other day that had added a symbol for puppy play. It never ends.

Stand for the flag, kneel for the cock.

I wonder if Pride in the larger cities have any type of minimal covering dress codes like no butt cheeks showing and more than just pasties for those in and out of the parade.

Fuck you R48 what about ME!!!!!!

You weren't at Stonewall either, Sylvia.

I knew a lesbian who just had to ride on the mattress float in the Pride Parade, nipples to the wind and making out with all the other bare-breasted dykes.

Then she transitioned.

If terrorism is a concern, and it shouldn't be, Prides, parades and other large events are probably the safest places to be what with all the protect. You are more likely to get napalmed on the subway going or coming.

First on the calendar is June 1st, when we'll join our little town's city commission in the Pride flag raising. I'll see what else we do later in the month from the list of events. Meanwhile, our condo people will be putting up their flags and we'll celebrate here.

This is Dunedin, FL.

What have you done today to make me feel proud

R4

You are not at all off as far as the data. As far as GenZ a least the T outnumber gay males. And the B outnumbers them all by a lot. And the Q and the +++ is rising in numbers.

Maybe it should be sensible (and a big money maker) and flags should be treated exactly like hankeys. Everyone gets their own flag . And if you want to fly more than one flag then have at it.

Flags for fucking everyone

How wonderful, R71! I haven't been to Dunedin in a zillion years, but I always loved it there.

Isn't that DeSatan's hometown? You better watch out -- you might piss him off, and he'll have to come over there in his white booties and give y'all the what for!

R74, yes, but he won't show his face here. It's virtually a unified front here.

R74, yes, Gandy's, still marvelous.

It’s a delight

R21 Dunedin is the Wilton Manors of Tampa Bay don't kid yourself

Flipping over in bed to keep from getting bed sores

I complete forgot it was Pride yesterday in Boston. How was it?

The pro-Palestinians tried to stop it, three arrests, one cop assaulted.

I’m not looking at any of those assless chaps guys on the floats.

I’ll stand outdoors and fart