Has Pervert Pride Month Finally Put a Sock In It?
With our short attention span, many have forgotten that the idea of “LGBTQ Pride Month” happened overnight and yesterday in cultural terms. Prior to about 2016, actual homosexuals—as compared to “queers” focused on public perversion and body mutilation—marked their political progress with a day, or a weekend.
Now we’re all choking on rainbow tat for an entire month while mind-addled, drug-ridden hedonists grind and flash out on the streets in front of grandmas and children. Even in solidly conservative states like West Virginia, the queer brigade has been claiming public territory with garish “pride crosswalks” slopped onto public thoroughfares. Fed up motorists have been spinning their tires in an automotive expression of “I’ve had enough.” Government activists have gone hysterical, describing these incidents as “hate crimes” and “desecration.”
Predictably, Seattle is arresting normal teenage boys for what they clearly believe are acts of religious desecration—skidding scooter tires on these “murals.”
But have you noticed something else? Even though we’re still suffering “Pride Month,” it’s a lot quieter in 2024 than it’s been in recent years. The account Reddit Lies (Reddit is an online topical discussion forum) brings us this from the site’s LGBT forum:
The evidence is hardly anecdotal. As the Associated Press noted; “analysts and advocates say the marketing is toned down compared to previous years, and at some chains, there’s no trace of Pride at all.” One maker of “gender-neutral clothing” quoted in the article said he saw a 25% drop in says compared to last June.
Meanwhile, Bud Light hasn’t mentioned Pride Month on its social media, Nike only references its 2023 pride collection, Target hasn’t posted about Pride Month on their social media, and North Face didn’t release a Pride collection this year. All companies faced major blowback from conservatives for past Pride initiatives. On social media, “queer influences” have seen a sizeable decline in income for Pride Month, a month which is to them what April is to the tax preparation industry.
It’s no surprise either – companies celebrating Pride Month is for the sole purpose of pandering to generate more business, and since the Bud Light disaster and continued conservative resistance, they’re more likely to cost themselves money. Earlier in the month BMW even admitted as much when asked why they don’t celebrate Pride Month in the Middle East.
The Reddit user “SuperNova0216” is upset at the budget reduction for this now-enforced early summer bacchanal. Have you noticed how this set blames capitalism for all their own failures, but lines up with fistfuls of cash for be-glittered pride merch?
This guy did:
“Cooking with Sal Minella” reminds us what happened to the biggest beer company in America when it decided to promote the working man’s brand with a drag queen campaign:
“John Doe” hits us right in the nostalgia bone:
“Noelle” picks up on the narcissism behind “Pride Month.” It’s almost as if a sin has been turned into a virtue.
“Storm Crow” thinks the entire gaudy fad will cease to exist in a couple of years:
What say you? Are we seeing the death throes of “pride”? Do you think we’ll be free of it by 2027? Let us know in the comments.
