It's not because I'm ashamed of who I am. I'm definitely not. I'm very liberal and I want gay marriage to be legal. I'm not a closet homophobic gay guy. I'm just not proud of something that isn't my doing, or my accomplishment. I'm just like this. It's no reason to be happy, or sad. It's just who I am. I'm also against black, white, hispanic, asian, etc pride because it promotes racism. I'm not asking anyone to be ashamed of themselves, I'm just wondering why being just another person (race, sexuality, etc included) gives someone a reason to be proud?

You're gay? What do you have to be proud of? The fact that you like guys? So do heterosexual women, but there's no "straight female parade". To me, gay pride just makes it look like gay people want to stand out instead of fit in. Which is the opposite of the point, isn't it? The point is to have equal rights, and be considered the same as everyone else despite your sexuality, yet you literally parade around to establish it? It just doesn't add up to me. It makes gays in general seem full of themselves. The same goes with every type of racial or sexual pride. There's no good reason for it.

What is your opinion? Do you believe that there is any value in "pride" about a certain part of yourself? Or do you agree that pride about such a little thing simply makes you seem conceited?

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It's up to the gay person to announce his gayness to everyone that he meets. Otherwise, the gays cease to be able to find one another.

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Ah. That's why I wear a necklace of the two male symbols together with one female. To let people know that I'm bi. It's much easier than marching.

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Quote: from Lyrical Death at 3:35 pm on Aug. 8, 2012

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It's up to the gay person to announce his gayness to everyone that he meets.  Otherwise, the gays cease to be able to find one another.

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Ah. That's why I wear a necklace of the two male symbols together with one female. To let people know that I'm bi. It's much easier than marching.

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It is, then, similarly understandable that many people fail to relate to gay pride. I would imagine that both many people who have not felt isolation and denigration for the sexuality and a substantial amount who have don't relate to the need for queer persons in a community to make themselves visible and affirm their identities in a positive context. But for many people, both in the past and the present, such a culture provides an absolutely necessary support to help overcome overwhelming, deeply-ingrained prejudice.

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In so far as the word "knowledge" has any meaning, the world is knowable;
but it is interpretable otherwise,
it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings.
-Nietzsche

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Only my close friends know i'm bi, and most ppl just think i'm straight and I like it that way.

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That's what the origins of it were. The Stonewall Inn was raided by police, and the first Pride movements were made almost as a riot protesting against it.

From my experience, there aren't many efforts made to address current gay issues at modern pride events. But then again I guess with equality being more "mainstream", issues like gay marriage have become more of a general campaigning thing than just a gay thing.

But I still think it's rather sentimental to remember where our modern rights have come from. The gay martyrs who have given so much to allow us the freedoms we have today.

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I'm proud of my sexuality because of the hardships I've endured because of it, that I have pulled through. They have shaped me. I imagine some homosexuals feel the same way about things that they've had to deal with.

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Definitely :)

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A lifetime of mistakes
Is better than making none at all.
...back on LW to put things right
and prove things to myself.