Profoundly accurate statement! These white supremacist idiots are so insecure in their masculinty, they feel the need to do this? Absolutely fucking ridiculous! And 10% of them probably have on a rainbow tshirt underneath their white robes! They are a part of the group that votes for trump, also a homophobe! Disgraceful!

@altschmerz exactly! I don't say anything else, because I'm shocked. I lost the words.

@altschmerz That All Lives Matter shit is just a sick, cruel joke on the part of racists and lovers of authority and the police who see colored people as of less value than animals.

@altschmerz I agree that it's as much a movement of the clueless as it is haters.

I don't know might be funny to see them race clockwise making all right turns

@oldFloyd That's true, right turns would be more fitting for their politics.

@TomMcGiverin you know I honestly didn't think of it that way thanks for the update

Because one side hasn’t been systematically ostracized for being who they are. Gay pride is about their right to exist without persecution. Instead of wondering why there isn’t a straight pride movement, we should be greatful we don’t need one.

Because one side actually has to actively fight daily for their Constitutionally guaranteed right to not be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation... while the other side of the aisle doesn't even have to consider such things at all and has never had to experience any such thing... I'll let you figure out which side is which.

@Kafirah Regardless, both sides have the same right to express their pride any way they see fit.... And I still haven't made any distinction between them, as it should be.

@IamNobody Pride comes from accomplishment, such as successfully fighting for civil human rights because one was born into a minority and discriminated against for it. Being born with less struggles than others, and being born in the greater majority is not an accomplishment. It's not even bad odds. Maybe they need a participation trophy parade for merely existing in the majority? And let's face it, straight white Christian males, such as those organizing this farce, have very little to be proud of throughout all of history. They don't deserve a fucking parade.

@IamNobody You do realize every other parade held during the course of a year is basically for straight people right? There might be a gay pride contingent in there - but doesn't that say it right there?
There has to be a contingent in a parade for "whatever" to represent a subset.

Straight people are NOT a subset. They really don't need representing. They are the people who run everything.

I say this as a straight person. As a white person.

Straight white males? They have the most privilege of all. It's embarrassing when they do not recognize it,. Everything is geared to them.
Testing. Jobs. EVERYTHING.

Show me a car designed with women in mind? We're 50 percent of the people who drive.

Straight people don't need ANOTHER parade.

There's 4th of July, Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving - they could not be more straight or white.
That is a boatload of entitlement right there and they want more. Gees.

@Kafirah and @RavenCT have already spoken for me. I couldn't say it better than them!

@IamNobody

@Kafirah Pride is human nature. It could come from accomplishment but it's not limited to that. The ones that have never accomplish anything have the same right to feel proud about that. As silly as it sounds they do. If they are correct or not then that's a different question. I don't mean to throw more gas to the fire and as I said to begin with, it is a fair question. I have your answers and you have my observation. That's all there is to it. As far as IamConcerned, anybody can have pride about whatever they see fit. Who the hell am I to say who does and who doesn't?

@Kafirah Exactly. Why do whites need another parade to celebrate their racial privilege? We already have plenty of them, including St. Patrick's Day and Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, etc. How many are enough for you?

@TomMcGiverin The real irony is I fucking hate parades. I don't even watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade if I can manage to sleep through it... Fat Tuesday during Mardi Gras? No thanks. Carnival (Brazil)? Pass. Dias de los Muertos? Drop dead. Gay Pride? I'm gonna be fashionably late... lol

@Kafirah Never been a fan of parades either, any kind of parade. Many years ago I marched with my late wife as straight allies in one of the early Gay Pride Parades in my area. Back then the local media barely covered it as they weren't sure it would be worth the flack they would get from their mainstream audience. I see no need to march in it these days, even tho I am just as supportive of LGBHT as back then, because the event is now so accepted and mainstream and Iowa even has gay marriage and gay adoption of kids. So I just don't see it these days as being so important for me to involved in the parade.

@TomMcGiverin That's understandable. I just can't stand all the noise and people... lol

@Kafirah Kind of how I feel, as a socialist, about the ultra-rich. They already have more money than God or than anybody could spend, but they won't be happy until they have it all. As well as total control and power over all the lower classes than their own.

@IamNobody Putting m=names to sides... The gay pride side wants equality for everyone, while the straight pride side wants to maintain the power and privilidge they have had by keeping the LGBTQ persons as not equal.

Gy pride events don't exclude any group as long as they are feared towards equality, inclusion and makign a better society. There are many non-gay organizations and groups who participate. Straights are NOT excluded from gay pride events.

Back in the 1980's they were all called "gay pride events", but today they are typically just refered to as pride events, to be more inclusive.

@michaelinlivonia Yes, I concede that poor whites are not very privileged overall and that they pose a contradiction to the concept of white privilege, but tell me this. Can you honestly say that poor whites are still likely to get followed around a store by the staff simply because they are in there? Or that they are as likely as blacks to get stopped by cops for simply driving normally or being in the wrong neighborhood? Or, if they are young and male, as likely to get shot by cops for no reason when they are stopped by police? Those may not seem like much, but they are privileges based on race, nonetheless......Also, I don't buy your wholesale judgment of poor people, white or otherwise, having and deserving their fate based solely on poor choices and/or some culture of poverty. You are classist beyond belief. As soon as you read and respond to this, I will be blocking you. Hope you never end up poor like the people you despise.

Those are all the other parades held all year.

But I do agree that ignoring them? That might put an end to it.

Why don’t they have a white history month? (Because every month is white history month) Why do handicapped people get “special” parking spaces that the rest of us don’t?
The Pride movement is not about “celebrating” being gay. It is about raising awareness and acceptance of a persecuted minority so that they don’t have to hide in the shadows and be afraid of being fired or attacked or murdered for who they are.

I've nothing against straight people. But they don't have to fight in order to get their rights. Pride is something you feel when you got something important, when you won an important battle.
Straight white men won other battles a long time ago (and, probably, there were also gay people who fought for the same things), but most of those battles weren't related to their orientation, race or gender.

@A2Jennifer That's exactly what Chris Rock used to say in his comedy routine, damn near every month in the US is White History Month with all these holidays in honor of famous white people. And every damn NASCAR race is a celebration of white ethnic pride. Let's get real about our culture in America.

There are no reasons to not have a heterosexual parade, there are also no good reasons to have one.

You are SO naive! The POINT is to HATE gays, not celebrate straights! Or are you joking?

It's a childish temper-tantrum parade because they're "sad" that no one celebrates being straight. Do we need white history month? How about Billionaire pride day? That is who's pulling the strings. Normal people wouldn't bother with a straight pride parade, but rich and powerful men who want to screw with the little people and create one more division to help further their political and financial goals.
And everyone involved fell for it.

What would really piss them (straight pride people) off wold be if we just ignored it and nbody showed up.

Teh gay pride parades have lots of straight groups who also march and participate. It isnt' liek the gay pride events look to exclude people. It's aobut equality for everyone, not just gay people.

@snytiger6 Yes, that would definitely pop their balloon.

@Storm1752 Unfortunately you are probably correct.

Well, maybe a few of them in the literal sense, Sticks, as there always seem to be a few right-wing men that turn out to be closeted gays.

@TomMcGiverin You know it.

@Sticks48 I like your choice of words here Sticks. Personally, I only use the term cocksuckers as an emphatic insult intended towards straight men (not gay men at all) who are so despicable that they will do anything to get their way or screw others over. As in a former work supervisor of me and my work buddy who called Jim a lying cocksucker for how low Jim would stoop to screw over me and my work buddy. No offense to gay men at all, just that Jim was the kind of straight man who would literally suck a man's cock to get what he wanted. Lower than a snake in the grass, with apologies to snakes....

@TomMcGiverin Hey I've sucked a few cocks! It can be fun!

This is a response that I got from a Southern Man during a debate about abortion. "No , i grew up with the BIBLE , and I just don't like talking to Democrats who want to destroy America by killing our kids to let the ILLEGALS take over"