Rights are not acquired or given by flamboyant displays of ill conceived notions surrounding sexuality. All they are doing is noise, nothing else. There is no merit in having a different skin color, nor is there any merit in having a different sexual preference; therefore, no reason to be proud of it. They did not fight for their right to be gay; they already were to begin with. It's absurd to attribute pride to sexuality or to use sexuality as an identity flag; sex is bereft of identity and history, and it does not beget any kind of culture, ethics or politics. Homosexuality is a natural condition, not an ideological argument. When it is used as such, it loses its value.
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The minorities are just trying to reverse the stigma attached to their minority condition by the majority. Not to suggest that one state / condition is better than another.
I think it is more therapy: celebrating the RIGHT to BE OPENLY GAY in society, without bigotry and repression. Otherwise, through the silence of the majority that is more to aquiesce, but that is manipulated by other, vocal minorities condemnation.
Amen.
I wish we lived in such a utopian vision, too.
Not sure I am able to pass a judgment, but I would expect that, as long as the right to be OPENLY, publickly a member of a minority, then there is less need for the display.