Usual silliness and lack of thought on here but my award goes to martin_p for being the first to reach for the H-Bomb rather than engage in an argument:
martin_p wrote:Ok, I’m calling you out as a homophobe.
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Walton wrote:Wow, you think gay Pride is degenerate?
It was certainly degenerate in parts in Nottingham whereby every year it descended into a p:ss up that crashed into town. Perhaps it was civilized in the daytime but by the time I went into town on a Saturday it was a spectacle of drunkenness, mass-vomiting and brawling. I'm not talking "once or twice" or a few isolated incidents - I mean that
every year the town turned into a drunken squalor of fighting with pavements of running vomit. It simply would not be tolerated at a football match - or anywhere else for that matter. There'd be mass arrests and a crackdown.
There are similar problems with drunkenness at gay pride in France but the police actually police the event here rather than facilitating a breakdown in law in and order as they did in Nottingham.
It's no different to any other festival in having the potential to become degenerate, which it regularly does when given the opportunity. The only difference I spotted was that unlike football matches in the UK, it didn't appear to be getting policed properly.
What I find most queer about the event is that I know tonnes and tonnes of straight people who attend every year and love to tell everybody about it and how much fun they find it. And they love to "call out" homophobes, as they say. Perhaps that's part of the fun? Wow! It's a "call out"!
However, none of the 5 gay people I've known well enough to call a proper friend in my life are anything other than reluctant attenders. None of them go of their own volition, they only go when others -usually somebody straight- pesters them to go along and at least 3 of them
refuse to attend. They say it's "weird", "embarrassing", "a spectacle" and -yes- some of them refer to the very public sexual acts as "degenerate".
Apart from the possibility of p:ssing off homophobes I've never seen the point in gay pride. I don't think that pride is the opposite of shame; I think that the opposite of shame is a lack of shame. I don't see anything to be "proud" about in any kind of sexuality.