Pride Parade/Playing With
- Basic Trope: A pride parade is held, empowering people of non-mainstream sexulity and/or gender identity. Onlookers may or may not like this, for various reasons.
- Played Straight: The parade serves as a setting, background event or plot device.
- Exaggerated: The portrayal of the parade focus on colorful but shallow stereotypes.
- Justified: The characters have helped organize the event, or are looking forward to attending.
- Inverted: A "Straight Pride" parade, or somebody talking about how there should be one.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied: The paraders (and/or counter-protesters) are Strawman Political.
- Deconstructed: Someone argues that Pride parades do nothing but glorify stereotypes of sexual and gender minorities, and don't do enough to focus on "normal" members of the community.
- Reconstructed: Someone else retorts that a parade of gay accountants would be immensely boring, and would be more about fitting in than showcasing diversity.
- Lampshaded:
- Averted: The characters try to arrange a parade, but the local authorities forbid it for one reason or another.
- Enforced:
- Invoked: A real or hypothetical pride parade is mentioned.
- Defied:
- Discussed: A character (or the narrator) talks about the parade, analyzing some aspect of it.
- Conversed:
- Played For Laughs: People in the parade and/or audience are hilarious.
- Played For Drama: The narrative bring up issues of hate crimes, homophobia, and so on.
- Or whines in a serious tone about this horrible threat against the respective country's culture or dominant religion, if it's that kind of work.