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There Will be Blood: Boston's Straight Pride Parade.

Efforts to hold a "Straight Pride Parade" in Boston are one step closer to becoming reality.
City officials said the organizers' public event application was approved Thursday, the first step toward receiving a permit for the parade.
Next, organizers need the approval of police district captains and the licensing board to receive a parade permit and an entertainment license.
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More than 350 volunteers have joined the effort and Milo Yiannopoulos is slated as the grand marshal, he said. The permit says 2,000 attendees are expected.
Boston's 'Straight Pride Parade' is one step closer to happening (CNN, June 28, 2019)
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Notice the Trump hat! Another guy is wearing a "Lick My Charm" T-shirt. I googled it and got this (facebook page).
 
Ironically, anyone attending this "parade" is probably full of shame.

At least they should be.
 
jimbob said:
It basically seems to be, "I don't see why gay pride marchers are needed, I'd rather they didn't celebrate their sexuality"... maybe a new slogan, "ashamed pride"?
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My mother was born in the 1940s, and her attitude is "I don't care if they're gay, but they don't need to be talking about it all the time."
In other words, "Why can't they stay in the closet like the good old days, so I don't have to acknowledge that they exist."

EDIT: Oh, and she recently expressed regret that "they" had chosen the rainbow as their symbol, because now she can't put decorations with rainbows in her yard without people thinking "there's something wrong with her". I don't think she gets that it's a flag, not rainbows in general.
 
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3point14 said:
Are we sure none of these people aren't just deep in the closet?
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Possible, but kind of irrelevant. I find it kinda tacky to accuse homophobes of just being closeted gays. Makes light of the situation imo.
 
So, gay pride came and went and pride month is almost over, was there blood?
 
Armitage72 said:
My mother was born in the 1940s, and her attitude is "I don't care if they're gay, but they don't need to be talking about it all the time."
In other words, "Why can't they stay in the closet like the good old days, so I don't have to acknowledge that they exist."
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My mother was born in 1940.

I was unreasonably proud when I found her chatting away to a gay friend of mine about his disastrous love life and offering sage advice, tea and sympathy cos, according to her, it all hurts the same when your heart's broken.
 
Armitage72 said:
EDIT: Oh, and she recently expressed regret that "they" had chosen the rainbow as their symbol, because now she can't put decorations with rainbows in her yard without people thinking "there's something wrong with her". I don't think she gets that it's a flag, not rainbows in general.
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My mother is in her seventies. She got it into her head, and it cannot be dislodged, that rainbow flags indicate support for Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition from 1984.
 
3point14 said:
My mother was born in 1940.



I was unreasonably proud when I found her chatting away to a gay friend of mine about his disastrous love life and offering sage advice, tea and sympathy cos, according to her, it all hurts the same when your heart's broken.
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There’s nothing unreasonable about that pride. Good for her.
 
uke2se said:
Possible, but kind of irrelevant. I find it kinda tacky to accuse homophobes of just being closeted gays. Makes light of the situation imo.
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I don't think it necessarily does, not in all cases. Just look at the number of virulent, even violent, anti-LGTBQ politicians and preachers who have been caught with their pants down, so to speak, engaging in or soliciting gay sex.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-weird-science-of-homophobes-who-turn-out-to-be-gay
https://www.livescience.com/19563-homophobia-hidden-homosexuals.html

The upshot is that the more virulent the homophoia, the more likely it is to be the result of internal conflicts between one's worldview and one's sexuality.
 
luchog said:
I don't think it necessarily does, not in all cases. Just look at the number of virulent, even violent, anti-LGTBQ politicians and preachers who have been caught with their pants down, so to speak, engaging in or soliciting gay sex.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-weird-science-of-homophobes-who-turn-out-to-be-gay
https://www.livescience.com/19563-homophobia-hidden-homosexuals.html

The upshot is that the more virulent the homophoia, the more likely it is to be the result of internal conflicts between one's worldview and one's sexuality.
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The upshot is that the more virulent homophobia in a society or group of people is, the more likely it is that people with (closeted) gay inclinations become homophobes. Without the prevalence of homophobia, it would be absurd for gays to become homophobes.
This is the reason why there seems to be so many gay homophobes in homophobic religious groups and political parties:
Homophobic leaders who turned out to be gay or bi (Advocate, May 24, 2019)
 
I think that if we look at this in terms of set theory, and we assign...

Set A to those people who would likely march in an event such as a straight pride parade, and

Set B to those people who are religious homophobes

the result would be A ∩ B = A ∪ B
 
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