Pride Parade: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''The idea of Pride is not to treat being gay or straight as being some kind of accomplishment on our part. Instead, taking pride in being gay is a response to people who would like us to be anything but proud. There are some people out there who would like it if we were ashamed of ourselves. They'd prefer if we'd keep this a secret for our entire lives, or better yet that we didn't exist at all. To them, being gay should be seen as something unmentionable, and not suitable for polite conversation. And they certainly don't want us to be okay with who we are. Taking pride in being gay serves as a direct response to the people trying to shame us into silence. It means rejecting the idea that it should be some kind of terrible secret for us to hide. So we don't hide! We have a massive public celebration of our lives.''|'''[[Zinnia Jones]]''', summarizing the concept in the episode ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}yZjDgxMgI9A Taking Pride In Pride]''}}

The parade may be portrayed as a stand-alone event or be given context as a part of a larger pride festival. In the later case it often include seminars on issues such as [[Heteronormative Crusader|heteronormativity]] and [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual|consent]] as well as social events at places such as [[Gay Bar|Gay Bars]]s.

** In one of them, there's a guy blocking the parade route, silently holding up a sign quoting a bible verse about homosexuality being an abomination. So a cop comes along and puts him under arrest, which you'd expect to happen in [[Real Life]], since he was blocking the route after all. That's where any semblance of realism ends, however, as Chick's [[Straw Political|Straw Pro-LGBT Rights People]] proceed to ''[[Disproportionate Retribution|beat the guy within an inch of his life]]'' while the cops, instead of trying to break it up, join in with their nightsticks. And then, after the guy confined to a hospital bed, [[It Gets Worse|a judge tells him that he's facing a prison sentence for the "hate crime"]] [[YouArtistic FailLicense Law Forever|he committed]]. [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5003/5003_01.asp Read it here.]

* The Bugarup Galah in ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', the [[Discworld]] version of the [[wikipedia:Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras|Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras]].

* ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'' feature a Pride ParadesParade and make a note of how they are getting more inclusive over time, now extending to include fetishists and such. Since the book is naziNazi propaganda, the narrative role of the Pride Parade is to serve as an example of how they claim the jewsJews control the world and weaken the aryanAryan race through the power of perversion.

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