#its acab right up until you want to weaponize the police against people you dont like

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yeah so the kink at pride discourse is exponentially worse this year

i think we should always respond to kids and teens with care and understanding, the way adults are name calling and spitefully mocking kids is wrong and doesnt help anything, but it is alarming that every year like clockwork during pride month people work themselves into a frenzy over mostly hypothetical scenarios that paint pride parades as some public sex party where the streets are filled with gay men having anal sex. its 100% homophobic and reactionary.

of course i can only speak from my own experience but the only public displays of sexuality that ive ever seen at pride are the same kind of pda that straight couples do all the time that no one takes issue with, holding hands, kissing, hugging, basically just extremely tame acts of love and affection. i have never seen any public sex at pride. i have seen non sexual nudity. but ive also seen that at public beaches. no one has a problem with speedos or bikinis at the beach but when its pride all of the sudden its inappropriate and we shouldnt be allowed to show that much skin.

theres a very urgent need to address the presence of predators in lgbt spaces but the handwringing over pride doesnt do that. and its very concerning to me that over the years these critiques of pride have spiraled from the real need to make sure kids are safe in our spaces to extreme policing of exactly how much skin gay people are allowed to show, exactly how much affection we’re allowed to express at pride with people invoking the cops as a threat against anyone they deem to be inappropriate. (and regardless of whether the person saying theyd call the cops actually would its way out of line to threaten it, dont call the cops on people at pride, dont call the cops ever) just like lots of other demographics theres people (mostly white obviously) in the lgbt community who are increasingly being drawn into reactionary online spaces that stoke their fears and spread hate. adults dunking on kids clearly isnt the answer to this problem but its an issue that we definitely need to be thinking about.

#no surprise that both these people are white #its acab right up until you want to weaponize the police against people you dont like #pride #pride 2021