Posted on 10/18/2021 6:14:36 AM PDT by karpov
Boston Pride is one of the oldest gay-rights organizations in the United States, with its first parade having taken place in 1971. Last year would have marked the 50th parade, but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic. This year’s events also didn’t materialize, but not entirely because of COVID-19. Rather, Boston Pride celebrated a half-century-plus of existence by collapsing into social panic and cancelling itself. I mean this literally: Boston Pride no longer exists. The organization was dissolved from within in July, when its board of directors released a statement that read, in part:
"It is clear to us that our community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride. We have heard the concerns of the QTBIPOC [Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] community and others. We care too much to stand in the way. Therefore, Boston Pride is dissolving. There will be no further events or programming planned, and the board is taking steps to close down the organization. We know many people care about Pride in Boston, and we encourage them to continue the work. By making the decision to close down, we hope new leaders will emerge from the community to lead the Pride movement in Boston."
And what are the QTBIPOC community’s “concerns.” Well, it’s a long, surreal, and tragicomic story. And to tell it coherently, I’ll have to start with events that took place more than six years ago.
The seeds of Boston Pride’s self-destruction were sown in June 2015—ironically, just weeks before the US Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which required all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. (Massachusetts had already legalized gay marriage in 2004.)
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This is usually how these things end - and is far more powerful than any external force.
Good. So sick of gays shoving their agenda down my and my children's throats.
Sodomy is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance
> QTBIPOC
I suspect these new acronyms are invented to promote exclusivity.
bump
Due to a lack of enthusiasm.
Dissolved from within because the subgroups starting fighting with each other - non-whites vs. the whites.
Back into the closet, sodomites.
Man’s pride in his sinful ways is a harbinger of sorts probably.
You just had to go with that formulation, didn't you!?
Regards,
Perversion canceled. Good.
“...but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic.”
Why? Obviously, diseases don’t seem to bother them.
Running low on popcorn.
Mrs AV
AIDS walks still OK ..
I guess the gas for their floats is too expensive.
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People are looking at the surface and missing what’s really happening. Gay Pride was an attempt to be positive, a “we’re just people too” kind of movement.
The new gay movement isn’t about asking for acceptance, it’s about war on normal people.
The sad part is the “movement “ is falling apart because they were too successful and now they control the mainstream. They are winning or have won the culture war and now they need something more shocking (transgenders) to keep stirring the pot.
Twas a fight over money as I remember reading.
Some people have principles - they want a share of the Hamiltons & Jacksons.
Meh, that’s what the commies thought in the USSR. Then all the kids they had propagandized for 60 years suddenly rose up and that was that for communism.
I NEVER buy that any time in history one side has “won.” Always transitory.
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