whats funny as i reflect is that this was explicitly what pride was intended to oppose "do what you want just dont tell me about it" as an attitude was rejected I think (this is my vague recollection) because it emblemized the shame of the closethttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1411493226037477384 …
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hmmmmmmmmm if you have coherent thoughts id be glad to hear them, no pressure ofc
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follow your heart
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The 80s made Pride feel uniquely powerful (RW govt, AIDS, etc.), but who falls under LGBT/queer has also changed and something like trans issues may make Pride a more useful concept now for those groups. I still fell under "less important" fwiw, but it's still a sticky issue
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where gays are still hated, pride is still relevant. where gays are *not* still hated, pride has been successfully co-opted as a Generic Civic Ritual and is never going away for *that* reason.
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being gay was more fun when it wasn't celebrated
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By the time I grew up in the 90s it was apparent that the elites had your back (likely much earlier), which already put me at ease, even with minimal gay acceptance messaging in schools or among peers
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Nowadays no actual gay man I know seems to have a personal emotional reaction to all the Pride festivities, it's just an occasion to party. All that previous sentiment is now felt vicariously through alignment with groups considered more oppressed
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Less important, but still pretty important, especially for trans people
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There's nothing left to achieve through the pride tradition. I think its mostly harmless, and am not anti-pride, but it is fully the status quo now. Moldbug's "protests are victory marches" etc.
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