Posted on 06/04/2023 12:21:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As a proud American who happens to be gay, I say it's time to end gay pride month.
Last week the Los Angeles Dodgers came under intense criticism, including from a number of the team's players, for inviting a group of "queer and trans nuns" with a long history of anti-Catholic activities to its "10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night" on June 16th.
This is just the latest controversial virtue signal on gay alphabet-soup identity politics, following close on the (high) heels of Bud Light's decision to promote a flamboyant transgender influencer on its cans and Target and Kohl's stores marketing transgender children's wear in observance of gay pride month.
This annual frenzy of rainbow flag waving has shifted into overdrive in recent years and has reached the point of self-parody and irrelevance at the same time. The best way to honor gay Americans would be to wake up and end this dated annual tradition once and for all, recognizing that the decades-long battle for parity is already won and we are simply proud and patriotic Americans, full stop.
In American society today, it is impossible to find a single corporation, small business, farm, any branch of the military, or any other place in government or the private sector where anyone would be fired or discriminated against for being gay or married (now legally) to someone of the same gender, and that's a great thing.
Also, in the exceedingly rare instances where that is not the case, holding a gay pride month would do nothing to change such old-fashioned views, and today that shopworn bigotry represents a real professional and personal liability for anyone who harbors it.
Gay Americans like myself salute all the leaders, lawmakers, and others -- gay and straight -- who, in a few short decades, brought us to the point of complete impartiality on this incidental private, personal trait when it comes to military service, marriage, employment, and on every other societal front.
Three decades ago, I had to mask my sexuality to serve my country in the Marine Corps, before the advent of "don't ask, don't tell," and way before gay Americans were accepted entirely in the military. In my era, fit, professional, and upstanding Americans would be discharged from the Marine Corps and every other branch of service simply for being gay, and that was not only wrong, it was unpatriotic.
A quarter century later, the ground had shifted seismically on the issue, and President Trump appointed me to two senior positions in government -- National Security Council spokesman and Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In doing so, he made me, as a matter of incidental fact, one of the highest-ranking gay officials in history from either party.
Yet to his credit, Trump never mentioned that I was gay, even when he and his administration came under predictable and regular fire from liberal media on the general issue of "diversity and inclusion." Instead, he said I was the best-qualified candidate for both jobs as a Marine veteran with a lengthy background in national security communications.
This is because Trump and most of society believe, correctly, that we are all Americans, no matter our background, race, gender, or sexual orientation. We are not special identity groups to be split up and pandered to for political gain.
For most Americans, gay or straight, our sexual orientation is no more or less relevant than whether we are right- or left-handed as long as no one is denied fundamental rights, which is irrefutably the state of play across society today. Sexual orientation is not a big part of our identity, personally or professionally; frankly, it's just not that interesting. I identify as an American, a veteran, a son, a brother, and a (mediocre) golfer who loves the occasional steak and Martini. I do not consider myself a "proud right hander."
Given the state of clear and indisputable fairness in society today across the board, why do a fraction continue to bang the drum on identity politics when it comes to sexual orientation, as well as on race, gender, disability, and other immutable characteristics through "celebrations" such as gay pride month and the additional so-called heritage months?
Not only are these divisive monthly identity festivals beyond old-fashioned, they diminish us as a country. These days they are used primarily, or solely, as a shoehorn to drive far-left initiatives from the professional grievance-grifters, and for Woke virtue-signaling from corporations and sports leagues, in this month's case on promoting transgender education for young children and attacking religion.
It's time to shelve identity politics and fly the American flag, not a rainbow flag or a BLM flag. Let's get back to viewing each other simply as Americans, no matter our background, race, gender, or sexual orientation. In the words of President Obama some two decades ago, "There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."
Today, Obama would never get his party's nomination with that message of unity, given the mania of identity politics in 2023. But we can return to this ideal by recognizing the strong state of parity across the board in America today and giving the heave-ho to gay pride month and all other such polarizing heritage months once and for all.
John Ullyot is a U.S. Marine veteran and served as chief spokesman for the National Security Council and Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
This is hopeful... Gay Americans don't need every sexual weirdo group in the nation deciding they should have political advantage based on sexual kinds. Enough is enough...
What did the gays expect? Did they think it was just going to stop at their particular perversion?
And a pox on Bush Light and Disney... keep up the boycott...
The best way to honor gay Americans would be to wake up and end this dated annual tradition once and for all, recognizing that the decades-long battle for parity is already won and we are simply proud and patriotic Americans, full stop.
They know they have gone for a bridge too far and are trying to regroup.
Today, Obama would never get his party’s nomination with that message of unity, given the mania of identity politics in 2023. But we can return to this ideal by recognizing the strong state of parity across the board in America today and giving the heave-ho to gay pride month and all other such polarizing heritage months once and for all.
All this perversion is a behavior, not an identity.
Now is the behavior a good one for society and individuals. stealing, lying, cussing, drug use, drinking smoking ect are ALL behaviors.
Is sticking your penis up another mans asshole a good behavior? (pardon my french)
We used to talk about behaviour modification. My mother knew what it was.
BS The author still identifies as a pervert, just doesn’t like all the attention.
Folks, be loud and repetitive in you position.
It would actually be best for gays.
So what? If gays didn't announce it, there never would have been any problem.
Keep your mouth shut and don't hit on others who are not interested.
Dunno, of course, but we all have a right to read and interpret her entire unedited doc or docs, do we not?
These people realized their identity has been reduced to nothing but a marketing campaign by korporations.
This is it. They want the stigma of being oppressed though, thats the thing. They dont want equality, they want to be spotlit.
Not even close. WHO is normalizing pedophillia… that is the only way mal homosexuality can perpetuate… child rape. What never wrote that s is lying to you… telling you it’s only consenting adults.. believe that at your grandchildren’s peril. This same g has used is saying 5 year olds can chose genders.. but he unable to moderate alcohol and tobacco consumption.
Why can’t these same genius kids drink n smoke.
SeeBS did a “celebrate lgqwerty month” during the PGA game today. Made me want to puke. That have an hour long indoctrination before they show the golf game telling us about the wonderful things they are doing for colored golfers.
Bring on the LIV golf game. Way better than the pandering BS on SeeBS!
Bull Spit, and I mostly certainly hope there are. When I had my small business not so long ago, I was very particular about who I hired. There are others the same way.
I think we often forget the entire evolution in the way some people think about homosexuality. It is only in very recent times that some people have changed their minds or grew up thinking that homosexuality is normal. Here’s a bit of history for you via Wikipedia:
Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) beginning with the first edition, published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This classification was challenged by gay rights activists in the years following the 1969 Stonewall riots, and in December 1973, the APA board of trustees voted to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder.
What is not mentioned is the thousands of years that it was simply considered a sin, an abomination. That is sin, as in evil.
Want proof: just look at all the pain, destruction and abuse caused by homosexuals. That has ramped up even more in recent years since Americans have deemed homosexuality normal. Pride month is a demonstration of immorality and debauchery. It has a direct influence on innocent youth.
Oh, and by the way, where’s your ‘gay gene” fags? The entire human genome has been mapped. It’s no where to be found.
Homosexuality is a behavior that most certainly can be controlled. It’s the lack of control, combined with immorality that should make people discriminate. By the way, discrimination is a good thing when done properly. Most people would not hire cognitively challenged people for jobs requiring any type of analysis, or hire a physically weak person for a job requiring heavy lifting. Certainly, those who are immoral and lack control are not suited for most work.
As for the author being against pride parades, he’s a little bit too late on that one. Perhaps he is afraid of the backlash that’s coming, and should have came long ago. America was a better place when homosexuals were kept under control.
Who cares? The more we acknowledge these freaks the louder they become.
In the unlikely event society takes the author up on this,
Can we also eliminate the various sex-related “visibility” and “awareness “ days and weeks. Here’s a list. I’m not sure how Transgendered Awareness Week rates two full weeks at the beginning of November, but there you have it. Add those all up and it’s more than another full 30 days, on top of pride month. So about one day in six, more than once a week on average, we’re supposed to celebrate someone else’s sexuality. It’s just trite and tiresome at this point
https://lgbtqa.unl.edu/awareness-days
Can we also eliminate the various sex-related “visibility” and “awareness “ days and weeks.
fashions change. To change fashion, you have to introduce something new like MAGA. Start promoting.
This is America in 2023. Every month is Gay Pride Month.
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