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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Do you honestly think that "erasing" one of the core identities was the intent? C'mon man. Feel free to say "LGBTory" is misguided as a slogan for that reason, but you are clearly manufacturing ill intent.
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Yeah, I actually need to stop posting on CP when I first wake up because I'm grump AF in the morning.
Whether it was malicious or not, it shows that the purpose of it was insincere self-promotion as opposed to actual concern and care for the entire LGBTQ community. Someone with sincere concern and care wouldn't have made that mistake, or at the very least might have gotten in touch with an advocacy group before going ahead with it. This is the entire point PepsiFree and I are trying to make when we talk about the criticism of what Pride has become and it has some very real impacts that I don't think a lot of people here have considered.
Pride was initially a platform for the entire LGBTQ community and it was built and developed by all of the members of that community, not just gays and lesbians. It has been incredibly successful and important for furthering gay rights. In recent years gay rights have become more mainstream and accepted, which is great.
The issue is that with this mainstream success, the Pride movement has attempted become more commercialized and in this process ditched much of the content that was designed as platform for trans activists and queers of colour. As you can imagine the trans and QoC activists who were an integral part of Pride's initial success have felt betrayed and have also lost an important platform for trans activism. It's great that gay rights have become normalized but not so great that many in the Pride movement have been complicit in stranding trans & QoC issues on the fringe.
EDIT: And I missed blankall's post, so also, my bad.