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I am having trouble reconciling the seeming mindset of "you support the pride parade or you are a homophobe" against the handful of gay friends who range from dislike to outright hatred of the pride parades. Does that make them homophobic?


For the record I completely support gay rights, I support The Calgary Flames organization support. I also support the right for people to disagree and not be called a bigot or worse.

For the record, arguments against the pride parade, from gay people, tend to revolve around the hyper sexualization of the parade ( Google image search Toronto Pride 2015 and you will see this has merit... And is NSFW ), although I have also heard comments about gender politics within the gay community cited. I certainly dont understand it completely as I am not a oart of it all, but Ive heard from a few sources they view the parade as anti men.

Granted, this is Toronto, perhaps the dynamic is different in Calgary.