Long Duck Dong
Jul 20, 2020, 4:32 AM
This is an issue that came up in a different site...... with a person posting images to do with respect for others, acceptance and tolerance, equal rights etc..... along side a image of a person saying fuck straight pride, they do not need it.....
Simply and bluntly in New Zealand we needed the support of the straight and religious communities with our fight to overtime the homosexual law that made homosexual acts illegal and later with same sex marriage, so we marched with them.....and yeah its interesting to hear people argue that straights are not discriminated against or targeted cos of their sexuality, while they slammed straights and told them to fuck off, they were not welcome to march with us cos they were straight and this was not their fight.......
now the argument against straight pride is that straights have nothing to be proud of, they are already accepted, they have always had rights and never had to fight for any rights or being discriminated against cos of their sexuality or targeted because of it.......which is ironic cos they are being discriminated against because they are straight and being told that they should not have the right to have straight pride.......
In fact the majority of people that stand for straight pride, are not actually asking for a seperate straight pride parade, they want to be able to stand with the LGBTQIA community in a pride parade and say we are straight people that are proud to be supporters, partners, lovers, family and friends of LGBTQIA, not just allies....
but it got me thinking, I have never marched in a pride parade or protest march for LGBTQIA rights cos of my sexuality, its always been about standing with others, acknowledging them as people.... and that comes from my army days where we stood as soldiers, race, color, religion, sexuality did not matter when the bullets started flying.......
so my question is simply if each person was asked to stand in a pride parade, would they do it cos they are proud of their sexuality, proud to stand with others, both or neither ? or would they say thanks but no thanks, I prefer not to stand in a pride parade.......
and in case anybody is wondering why I brought the straight aspect into a bi forum,..... I stood for equal rights and anti discrimination, not for equal rights and anti discrimination for LGBTQIA but not straight people.......
Simply and bluntly in New Zealand we needed the support of the straight and religious communities with our fight to overtime the homosexual law that made homosexual acts illegal and later with same sex marriage, so we marched with them.....and yeah its interesting to hear people argue that straights are not discriminated against or targeted cos of their sexuality, while they slammed straights and told them to fuck off, they were not welcome to march with us cos they were straight and this was not their fight.......
now the argument against straight pride is that straights have nothing to be proud of, they are already accepted, they have always had rights and never had to fight for any rights or being discriminated against cos of their sexuality or targeted because of it.......which is ironic cos they are being discriminated against because they are straight and being told that they should not have the right to have straight pride.......
In fact the majority of people that stand for straight pride, are not actually asking for a seperate straight pride parade, they want to be able to stand with the LGBTQIA community in a pride parade and say we are straight people that are proud to be supporters, partners, lovers, family and friends of LGBTQIA, not just allies....
but it got me thinking, I have never marched in a pride parade or protest march for LGBTQIA rights cos of my sexuality, its always been about standing with others, acknowledging them as people.... and that comes from my army days where we stood as soldiers, race, color, religion, sexuality did not matter when the bullets started flying.......
so my question is simply if each person was asked to stand in a pride parade, would they do it cos they are proud of their sexuality, proud to stand with others, both or neither ? or would they say thanks but no thanks, I prefer not to stand in a pride parade.......
and in case anybody is wondering why I brought the straight aspect into a bi forum,..... I stood for equal rights and anti discrimination, not for equal rights and anti discrimination for LGBTQIA but not straight people.......