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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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I went to my local pride parade last summer (not a part of the community personally but had some family/loved ones that are and wanted to go) and holy shit was it bad. Mostly it was just depressing, as  like 80% of the parade is just endless floats of corporate virtue signalers. Not even LGBT-adjacent corporations, it's shit like Target and Wells Fargo. 

Then there's the like 10-15% that is just utter fucking degeneracy. Men in thongs twerking at children, leather daddies walking dudes in gimp suits around strollers, tails that definitely don't attach with a clip on your waistband, the crowd of geared up people walking around screaming "KINK AT PRIDE" (except those that had ball gags in, of course)... It made me want to puke. I will never take anyone seriously if they claim pride events are child friendly.

I wouldn't judge consenting adults for what they do behind closed doors, but this is in broad daylight on a main city street filled with kids, whose room temp IQ parents are pushing them to the front of the crowd for a better view of some old geezer's bulge. 

The last 5-10% is actually cool; people just hanging out with like-minded people, being who they are. Some actually good, not overly sexualized drag shows, good music, fundraisers for good causes, and good food.

Unfortunately the good doesn't even come close to out weighing the bad. I won't be returning personally. Part of me wishes I could have been a fly on the wall for pride events in their heyday, before big corporations realized they could cash in on cheap brownie points.
gpt
I'll be honest, I've never seen an announcement that Pride is family friendly. And yet organisers are also not telling parents it isn't. Kink at Pride has always been a facet (Leather daddies and cross-dressing being forerunners). And as LGBT acceptance has been on the rise, parents suddenly want to bring their kids along.

It's an open secret that the organisers of Pride are purely money driven at this point. That's why you're seeing sponsorship driven floats everywhere! These organisations are not heroic for parading their gay workers around now the work has been done. 

And in my opinion of these organisers... they've thrown LGBT political away and now actual LBGT people under the bus to grab a few extra bucks.