This just in: Today is #HeterosexualPrideDay.
Who knew?
We mistakenly thought every day was Heterosexual Pride Day, but apparently June 29 is the official date. At least according to a group of Twitter trolls.
It all began when someone decided to mock Gay Pride by creating the hashtag #HeterosexualPrideDay. Pretty soon, straight men (and a few straight women) joined the chorus by tweeting about just how secure they are in their heterosexuality.
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Check out some of the things they’ve been saying…
https://twitter.com/_JackNForTweets/status/748177180052488193
https://twitter.com/Spacebunnyday/status/748098887009898496
https://twitter.com/lordaedonis/status/748176518329733120
I'm straight and I'm proud
I will not hide who I am
I shall overcome pic.twitter.com/LCcszS0x3M
— Khairy the Comedian (@OMG_ItsKhairy) June 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/748108722803597313
https://twitter.com/jamieNoitsJaime/status/748161302082748416
Naturally, not everyone was pleased about the hashtag or the things these trolls were saying, especially in the wake of the Orlando massacre.
Here are some of the responses…
https://twitter.com/stribs/status/748190527359582209
https://twitter.com/MatthewKick/status/748192176866222080
Really looking forward to the #HeterosexualPrideDay Parade. I can't wait to see all the helmet haircuts, polo shirts and dissatisfied wives.
— K. (@KDotInk) June 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/MADBLACKTWINK/status/748182779142119426
https://twitter.com/JulieDiCaro/status/748149386232770561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
#heterosexualprideday? what y'all got to be proud about? dodge caravans? "the notebook?"
— hari nef (@harinef) June 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/mishbuddy/status/748066645482962944
Of course, this is hardly the first time a gaggle of straight people have thought they were the first ones come up with the idea of “heterosexual pride.” A group of high school students did the same thing last year, and someone else did it the year before that, and someone else did it two years before that.
Related: These Students In Ohio Don’t Care About Gay People, Advertise Eight Day “Straight Pride Week”
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Well good for them. They have just as much right to celebrate as we do. If there was a parade that wasn’t just meant to be hateful toward gays I would go.
Prinny
Let them have it.
Paco
They really should be proud of filling the world with beautiful LGBT+ offspring.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
So, this is what we’ll expect every Pride month now? People are assholes. Can you imagine a #whitepride trending like this during Black History Month. With every passing year, I want to get farther and farther away from straight people. I firmly believe in seperate but equal. It is the best way to live.
gayhope1990
Why not?Without straight people we wouldn’t be born.
Goforit
@gayhope1990: You do realize that one does not have to be “straight” to produce offspring. Don’t you?
zooby
Funny, these are the same people who say shit like “why do gays need to come out? You don’t see me telling people I’m straight!” And yet we have closet cases who refuse to come out and are basically giving into what they’re saying / giving them what they want
Dave Downunder
Straights are people too I guess.
DCguy
Hetro Pride day? I guess, Prom, Sadie Hawkins Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, bachelorette parties, engagement parties, their weddings, pushing a baby carriage down the street without getting screamed at, having children in school without admins trying to kick them out because their parents aren’t of the opposite sex? Every day they have a picture of their spouse on their desk at work and don’t have to worry about being fired for it.
Guess, none of that counted and they needed another day.
Marky
LMS abounds.
AtticusBennett
it’s nothing but a group of miserable anti-LGBT bigots. they should be roundly ignored.
to say “why isn’t there a straight pride?” is to Out yourself as one of the stupidest, and most bigoted, morons on this planet.
Blackceo
This is as stupid as people who say “Why isn’t there a White Entertainment Awards if there are the BET Awards” Ignorance abound.