The first big heterosexual march will take place in August in response to gay pride marches
Homosexual pride marches are (not only) in this country a target of ridicule and disgust for a part of society every year. They are often described, without knowledge of the matter and history, as putting their own sexuality in the faces of others. Often, competing events are also organised, be it various marches for the family or various extremist actions. Many then try to keep alive the completely absurd idea from the beginning that homosexuals are coming with a clear agenda to destroy the traditional family, and paint pictures of homosexuals going round housing estates, knocking on people's apartment doors and trying to persuade faithful husbands to leave their wives, become homosexuals too, and take their children with them, of course, who will then steal their homosexual couples.
Such ideas are misguided, and all homosexuals have ever wanted is ordinary human respect and rights on par with anyone else's, because that helps many people and harms no one. Unfortunately a lot of heterosexuals really can't empathize with what it's like to be in a minority. Because no one is going to put them in a box just for kissing their wife in the street. No one mocks them for having a wife and wonders what on earth they're doing with her in the bedroom. Not to mention the fact that in many countries, even today, homosexuality still carries harsh penalties, including the death penalty in some places.
The first great heterosexual pride march
A group of three guys from Boston have decided to give a concrete shape to similar attitudes and voices, and on August 31, 2019, they will be organizing the first big Straight Pride Parade in the US, i.e. the Heterosexual Pride March. The event was reported by the Washington Post, among others. The men espouse the view that heterosexuals are oppressed by the LGBT community, which fits into the role of victim. However, it is not clear how, apart from the homophobic attacks that have cost the lives of a huge number of gay and trans people, LGBT people consciously fit into this role... I believe that everyone's goal was nothing more than to just un-fit themselves from this role.
The two heterosexuals behind the project (they point it out themselves, which is why we're writing this) John Hugo and Mark Sahady, and with them on the cause is their "gay ambassador" Chris Bartley, who calls himself a crusader against heterophobia and claims to have been ostracized in the LGBT community for it.
The goal is not so much pride for straight people, but rather mockery of gay people
Thus, these right-leaning Americans founded the Super Happy Fun America movement, which is organizing the march and whose goal, according to its authors, is, among other things, to "mock left-wing identity politics." They made it clear to the Boston authorities that they would sue them if they were not allowed to march, and they also complained strongly that Boston City Hall did not immediately put up the heterosexual flag they had invented for the occasion. They complained formally, filing a complaint for discrimination because of their sexual orientation, because the authorities are not willing to put up immediately all the flags that citizens make up.
A heterosexual flag invented on the spur of the moment for the Straight Pride Parade"If you stamp out victim status, then suddenly you have the right to celebrate your existence and people in the oppressor category are expected to pander to your feelings," Mark Sahady tries to explain how gays hurt the majority society. Sahady organizes other rallies, too, for free speech and also for the right to own guns with the group Resist Marxism.
The event parodies all the slogans usually used by gay pride marches. The organizers talk about wanting to win respect for heterosexuals, about wanting equal rights and inclusion for heterosexuals, and they also want to celebrate the diverse history of heterosexuals. The march will symbolically take place in Boston, which is traditionally one of the most open-minded places towards the LGBT community in the US.
The event has received a lot of support on social media. Unfortunately, especially from people who more or less dislike and despise homosexuals, but feel that the contemporary Western world, which they feel is only "playing" at tolerance, does not give them enough space to express it. Of course, the event has been criticized on social media, with most people not understanding what the organizers are up to besides mocking gay pride marches and indirectly supporting homophobia.
But the organizers stand their ground and refer to heterosexuals as an oppressed majority. "We want tolerance and we want it for everyone, not just the LGBTQ community," explains John Hugo.
Why march organizers and their supporters tend to parody ideas of tolerance that are directed towards everyone just regardless of orientation, age or skin color is quite the question. What exactly heterosexuals are being oppressed by is not clear, whether by the very demand not to attack homosexuals simply because of their orientation, or perhaps by the fact that once a year they can see an LGBT carnival march in the city to which they are invited. It's hard to say...
