party month

Maybe this year we post the pride flag upside-down?
- Not a bad idea, the red hats wouldn't be able to tell. It'd be an inside secret.
  
  I prefer to be a bit more upfront:
  
  They'll catch on and see it as a positive.
  
  It'd be an inside secret because even some allies wouldn't be able to tell of they're not particularly good with colours (me)

Wait, are straight people in charge of pride month this year?
- Straight people during pride month:
  
  March: Irish for a day.
  June: Gay for a month.
  
  I mean... If that's what you want. 🤷🏻‍♂️
  Bend over.
- Our neighborhood (business association but that's downplayed) hosted their first Pride last year, made attempts at getting actual queer people involved this year, and then announced they were $20k in the hole due to sponsors pulling out. FOR CHRISTS SAKE. Everything about this is wrong. Pride is supposed to be COMMUNITY BASED. When sponsors pull out, we're now having to scale back plans. As a local queer community-building non-profit, I'm having to pay money to this group to have a presence, and they want me to supply volunteers to work the main event... wtf is happening... they've inverted it
- You might want to reread the post, because nothing about it implies straight people are in charge of pride. Only that the straight response to pride month tends to be empty celebratory phrases instead of recognizing how LGBTQ people are still being hurt.
- Yeah seriously, WTF. This is on us to send the right message. Not them.

The fascists are just expecting the rainbow to fade away. But in reality, it's gonna be like leprechaun in space
- leprechaun in space
  hmmm. the fourth installment in the series! a 1996 horror comedy film about a leprechaun who chases a princess and a crew of space marines
  kinda can't not watch it now

This post reminded me it's been a bit since I've done any volunteering; just emailed a local org that does concealed carry and gun safety courses for LGBT+ folks to see if they could use an extra hand. So, thanks for posting this!
There's only one effective way to handle a confrontation with a Nazi, and that requires you to be armed!

Shut up and give us your gay money.
- hands over a crisp $6 bill with Alan Turing's face on it

It is rather a problem that pride allows cops, companies and rightwingers (as long as they profess to equally push down people) in their parades .
I will show up once the bricks are back in fashion
- Do you not want to include people from what you consider problematic to join in pride? That sounds like the opposite of the goal
- Expect counter protests and unfriendly police departments. If they show up, bricks may be appropriate after all.
  First aid, water bottles and other protest support kitch will better serve to help and will be needed by attendees regardless.
- pitch a big tent and kick out anyone who misbehaves within it. might be me but definitely never for homophobia.

If they believed love is love we wouldn't be here in the first place.
- Great. Generalizations about people depending on their sexuality.
  
  I'm speaking of the people in general against pride/LGBT. If they actually believed what they preached then we would not be where we currently are.

That sounds like a threat!

I remember I was at a pride event in a major city. I remember when they excluded trans. Remember rainbow capitalism supports the patriarchy and business as usual. The working class is in danger. Democrats use minorities as human shields. Fascism is a failed liberalism as capitalism is in crisis. Woke is a joke. You were co-opted before you even started.

- I too hate it when people in a place of oppression tell me in which ways they are being oppressed, and how I could help them stop being oppressed. It really makes me angry!!!!

Straight people: ...
Sorry, couldn't think of anything. Straight people are just like a lot of things.

- Huh? Did you reply to the right post?
- Oh, but "not being into the opposite gender enough" will follow closely behind.

People do not care about other people. People are not empathetic.
All people really want is validation, and for liberal, middle-class straight people, feeling validated means supporting a company that displays a rainbow for a week out of a year so they can say they're not hateful bigots and thus feel validated.
You all need to understand this, not so you can give up and be doomers, but so you can more effectively advocate for human rights. Knowing what dark, selfish dials and levers are set behind the average person's values gives you the opportunity to find ways to get your better results without spinning in circles. Yes, their personal values on equality are selfish and hollow... but so are most values until they become so standard in society that the alternative becomes to shameful to contemplate. We've done this many times in history, but we lose progress the moment we expect people do to the right thing for its own sake.
The right is great at leveraging people's desire to be validated and accepted to further their own goals. Can YOU think of ways to make people feel a desperate, panicked need to support YOUR values? When we all start thinking like villains just a little we will have fewer villains in the world.
ITT: naive children who think someone saying their demonstrably ineffective activism needs reworking, is actually advocating for right-wing ideology. We're so cooked.
- are you a Ricky and Morty fan
- Of course this is downvoted, but you're totally right. Most people are self interested and don't really have values, including most of us for that matter. I was never transphobic, but I certianly started caring more after "hatching"