Pride is a month-long LGBTQ+ celebration protest and an act of political activism all over the world. Nearly every city in some country has some sort of big event- usually a large parade.
Pride is dated back to the 1960s and was to commemorate the stonewall riots which occurred in June. Hence pride events are held during June to recognize the impact of the LGBTQ+ community.
Straight pride is a slogan that arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has been used primarily by social conservation groups as a political statement or strategy. The term is described as a response to gay pride.
The concept of pride originates as a movement that seeks to challenge the negative image of LGBT people being openly identified with a cultural stigmatized group; as such, it creates discomfort.
In this context, the terms straight pride and heterosexual pride exist as an argument criticizing gay pride as unnecessary, stating by contrast with heterosexuality that heterosexuals “don’t talk about straight pride”, don’t have “straight pride rallies”, and would be seen as ridiculous if they were to “band together and have a heterosexual pride.
This argument expresses the idea that showing pride for a homosexual orientation is equally absurd. Analysts of LGBT rights state as a counter-argument that mainstream culture offers many social events (weddings, baptism, family reunions and so on) for heterosexuals to express and celebrate their sexual orientation in public, while homosexuals usually feel isolated and parades offer them support and an opportunity for socializing.
Examples of straight pride:
A typical example is that people from Boston (America) have decided to have a straight pride somewhere in August 2019.
Yellowknife, NWT (2005): In May 2005, the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife announced that it would mark both a gay and straight pride day.
Budapest, Hungary (2010): In 2010, a heterosexual pride march was held in Budapest.
Reasons why there shouldn’t be a straight pride:
- Straight people don’t live with ‘heterophobia’ at schools, workplaces or places of business.
- Straight people don’t get murdered for being straight.
- Straight people can travel anywhere in the world without the fear of being straight.
- Straight people have always been able to legally marry.
- Straight people have never been jailed for being heterosexual.
- Straight people aren’t called abominations for their sexual orientation.
- Straight people aren’t denied medical care for being heterosexual.
- Straight people aren’t told to ‘don’t ask or ‘don’t tell’ when signing up for the military or any job.
- Straight people don’t have their sexual orientation used as an insult to describe anything negative.
When people ask why straight pride isn’t celebrated or why gay pride is being celebrated it’s because of the reasons listed above. Also, it feels like they are saying contributions by LGBTQ+ – a minority group of people that face constant adversity are simply not worthy of recognition. Further, they are even denying the importance and significance of identifying as LGBTQ+ and achieving things.
Hence the entire concept of straight pride should be erased.
Eduindex News 