Back in the 1990’s and very early 2000’s I used to enjoy going to the big Pride festival in London. Prides back then were for me an exhilarating riot of colour and happiness and freedom. They were places where LGB people could celebrate their relatively recently won freedoms to be who they were, to be with who they loved and to not have to worry about having to constantly look over their shoulders for potential trouble. Even the chants to the police were, compared to what you hear on demos today, relatively innocuous such as ‘2-4-6-8 is that copper really straight’ which were met with cheers from the crowd when the cop blushed and maybe smiled. There was little trouble either given to or received from the small number of opposition who were penned in their own little compounds as counter protestors, such people were either smiled at or grudgingly tolerated as part and parcel of living in a society that was much more free than Britain is today.
Yes the beer was expensive at the pride festival sites and the food was often less than nice but there was dancing, friendship, acceptance and stalls selling LGB tat to peruse and maybe buy. Of course there were present those where part of the minority of the LGB community and its allies who attended such as the BDSM’ers, the leftist political activists, the Tory gays along with the occasional cross dresser, but on the whole the vast majority of people who attended were what we could call standard LGB people. It was a party like all the best parties I’ve been to which was where the the majority of those attending were normie LGB’s seasoned with the occasional relatively harmless freak.
But that’s not the case now. Pride is something that I have no interest in attending any more because they are not the Prides that I once knew. Pride is no longer for the vast majority of normie LGB people as many Pride festivals have been captured by the votaries of the Cult of Trans. Those LGB people who are opposed to some or all aspects of this cult are clearly no longer welcome at many Pride festivals as too many of the management committees of these Pride groups are now completely under the control of trans cultists.
We now have the appalling situation where women who might be Lesbian or Bisexual are made unwelcome by Pride organisers because they are or might be perceived to be opposed to all or any singular aspect of the cult of trans. Gay men who believe that you cannot change sex are unwelcome and Bisexuals who accept that there are two immutable sexes that they are attracted to are also finding that Pride is no longer for them.
Those ordinary LGB people who used to make up the backbone of attendees of Pride festivals and the organising committees have voted with their feet and turned their backs on the modern iteration of Pride. Pride along with the organisations and entities that runs local Prides has been taken from them by a tiny minority of mentally ill extremists such as the men in dresses who want access to women’s toilets, along with those who will not accept that gay men like penises, lesbian women like vaginas and bisexual people like both. Pride is now a freakshow of autogynophiles, self harmers and those who want to push their own gender ideology centred bullshit on children. I don’t want to attend such events.
Those who have taken over Pride festival organising groups and who have usurped what was once a celebratory day or week for LGB people have destroyed all that was once good and praiseworthy about Pride. It’s no longer a celebration of LGB cultures or a place to meet friends or chill out and dance. Too often Pride these days is a place where people look over their shoulders and dare not to speak their innermost thoughts to their friends, especially if those thoughts are on the lines of ‘women do not and cannot have penises’ or ‘women do not belong in gay male spaces’. When I think of Prides and what they’ve become I despair when I think back to the happy LGB people I danced with through central London and in big public spaces like Clapham Common and it galls me to know that the Pride festivals today are cesspits of lunatic exhibitionists, non-binary mentally disturbed narcissists, pronoun Gestapo types and ‘spicy’ straights who in the reality are not that more spicy than the average pissed up straight in a nightclub on a Saturday night but who like to think of themselves as ‘different’.
The mutation of Pride festivals from celebrations of the LGB community and a place to party and maybe engage in some community politicking into a grim, gender identity orthodoxy infested woke shitshow is a good reason why they are failing. Prides have become so big and so expensive to put on that they need corporate sponsorship and with that need for sponsorship comes the need to keep the sponsors happy. For a few years the corporates were comfy with supporting Prides because it was the ‘done thing’ and they’d been convinced that such sponsorship would help their bottom line. These companies sponsored Prides even though Pride festivals were in my view much degraded from what they were and had become displays of exhibitionism. But, as the economic and political world chilled and times became harder sponsorship has started to dry up. Also consumer pressure on companies to not back entities that were dominated by trans cultist misogynists and homophobes started to hit home and hit companies reputations. It could be said that many commercial sponsors of Pride events have started to experience the ‘Bud Light Effect’ and have made new sponsorship decisions accordingly. The bullying nature of some allegedly transcult dominated or heavily influenced Pride organisations may well be also affecting decisions by companies to pull out of sponsoring Pride festivals. Pride organisations have clearly ‘gone woke and then gone broke’.
The current model of Pride festivals is obviously living on borrowed time. There’s less money for them from sponsors, ordinary LGB people are less willing to help out in running them and LGB people are not willing to pay to go to Pride festivals if the are no longer welcoming, as some have become, to LGB people. Maybe one day Pride will go back to its roots and be supported by LGB people again? I live in hope that this will happen. Pride has died and it’s going to be a long time before it can be resurrected again.
