at Pride there were dozens of people walking around completely naked and a TON of people walking around in BDSM gear. like there were children and teens there. and rape survivors and ace people and people who just flat out don’t want to be exposed to that shit without their consent. like whyyy.

I will never not keep telling people that the sexualization of LGBT events and spaces is extremely harmful and exclusive.

i mean y'all do realize that part of the entire point of pride was to flaunt sexuality that society represses/deems degenerate and wrong, right? i do agree that there need to be more queer safe spaces that aren’t so incredibly sexualized but to speak about the open sexual aspect of pride as if it’s gross/disgusting is an insult to the origins and reasons pride first came about lol

alright, for one i think this entire thing is a bit of an over reaction to the p valid critique from sexual abuse survivors that pride feels unsafe to them. 

fi think it’s important not to confuse hypersexualization with sexuality. sexuality isn’t limited only to sexual acts, but encompasses much more. it is a lifestyle, an identity, and a culture. to have it watered down to simply “who do you fuck” is fucked up on multiple levels, because yes, queer sex is seen as repulsive, but everything a queer person does is viewed as inherently sexual and degenerate. it isn’t as simple as normalizing sex as a whole, but also getting rid of the idea that queer is sexual from the mainstream. hypersexualization is actively harmful to the community, but it’s especially detrimental to everybody that ain’t a cis gay white man. 

because in the end pride being that sexual benefits nobody else. it’s literally fucking over everybody that is not white is not cis and is not a male. they do not need to be associated w/ sex because they already are and this is literally killing them. lesbian porn is fucking huge. lil black girls are mistaken for sex workers. trans women can not exist w/o ppl asking them about their genitalia and how they use it. their sexuality isn’t normalized and is seen as repulsive, however, it is still hyper visual. in your face “i’m kinky” visibility does nothing for a large subsection of the community and in the end it  was never designed to do so.

becaaauuuuuse pride wasn’t started so cis gay men could openly fuck each other with whatever tools they chose it was started for trans women of color to be given the right to exist. it isn’t only about sex, it’s about safety and the laws that surround them. the origins of pride are in riots. riots about police brutality and riots about the limited spaces afforded to the degenerates of society to be in peace. the assertion that it’s only about the normalization and visibility of sexual acts is honestly. lmao so fucked

because yes, pride is an all ages event. and yes if a parent doesn’t want their five-year-old to see shot glasses shaped like buttplugs and speedo clad men twerking on stage that’s perfectly fine. pride ain’t safe. it ain’t safe for trans people and it ain’t safe for poc and it ain’t safe for girls and it ain’t safe for sex repulsed people and it ain’t safe for sex survivors. the oversexualization of the event is a major reason why. 

to wrap it up as “well we can have a few nonsexual spaces for them” is the same white liberal nonanswer given all the time. what people are asking for is a safe pride w/ an over 21+ section off to the side. a pretty damn reasonable request considering a majority of queer spaces are already 21+, sex driven, and full of alcohol. 

that comment was absolute shit, bruh