Straight Pride.
It’s the topic on everyone’s lips. Riiiight before they start laughing hysterically at the sheer absurdity of it all.
It all started when the city of Boston issued a permit for a “straight pride” parade later this summer, and it’s led to some pretty amazing responses online.
The website for the proposed event reads:
How about we take this to the next level?
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“Straight people are an oppressed majority. We will fight for the right of straights everywhere to express pride in themselves without fear of judgment and hate.
We want the same parade route as the Boston Pride Parade [and] the same accommodations given for the LGBTQ+ parade.”
Related: Meet the gay guy behind the effort to bring “Straight Pride” to Boston
There were tweets, of course, so many tweets. And one from Eva Victor objectively won that game.
But in the less-comical-but-still-somehow-deeply-funny-slash-tragic category, Captain America himself, Chris Evans, had a pretty pitch-perfect takedown of the whole charade.
The actor and older brother of out actor Scott Evans wrote:
“Wow! Cool initiative, fellas!!
Just a thought, instead of ‘Straight Pride’ parade, how about this: The ‘desperately trying to bury our own gay thoughts by being homophobic because no one taught us how to access our emotions as children’ parade?
Whatta ya think? Too on the nose??”
Wow! Cool initiative, fellas!! Just a thought, instead of ‘Straight Pride’ parade, how about this: The ‘desperately trying to bury our own gay thoughts by being homophobic because no one taught us how to access our emotions as children’ parade? Whatta ya think? Too on the nose?? https://t.co/gaBWtq2PaL
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) June 5, 2019
In another tweet responding to a straight ally criticizing the event, Evans wrote:
“Wow, the number gay/straight pride parade false equivalencies are disappointing.
For those who don’t understand the difference, see below. Instead of going immediately to anger(which is actually just fear of what you don’t understand)take a moment to search for empathy and growth.”
Wow, the number gay/straight pride parade false equivalencies are disappointing. For those who don’t understand the difference, see below. Instead of going immediately to anger(which is actually just fear of what you don’t understand)take a moment to search for empathy and growth https://t.co/e98K0Z150T
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) June 5, 2019
And just for good measure, here’s how activist and author Dylan Marron responded to this moment in warped reality:
happy heterosexual pride day pic.twitter.com/PCGKNnhu76
— Dylan Marron (@dylanmarron) June 5, 2019
Dan Tracer is a queer writer, noisemaker, and amateur astral projector. Find him on Instagram.
enlightenone
It’s always refreshing to hear what REAL MEN have to say!
PinkoOfTheGange
As of Tuesday COB Boston stated they hadn’t issued any permits.
Are we being trolled?
djmcgamester
Give it attention and watch it grow. It’s stupid but so what?
If I had to guess, the whole “straight, white men” thing are bad is causing a push back. Straight guys don’t like being demonized.
Cam
Except nobody’s saying that. People are saying “Hey, this person or this business is discriminating”.
So if bigots don’t like being called out, too bad. And if a straight person thinks exposing bigotry is an attack on them, then it’s pretty obvious they’re a bigot.
ShiningSex
Whatever the reason for Straight Pride. It undermines the point of our Pride Parade. It’s silly and others will continue to support and spout ignorance and hate towards us.
Stanleyjacksnr
Hey is there anyone that needs a partner withing North Carolina??
evanxx
Having a “Straight Pride Parade” is like asking Lincoln to free the white people!
prarie pup
Don’t laugh, dude. I have a cousin who’s the biggest white supremacist in the western hemisphere and he firmly believes that white people were the first slaves in the USA.
Libertas Belle
I’ve never heard of Dylan Marron, but his is one of the best responses I’ve seen so far.
derek mcgillicuddy
They don’t realise that every day is Straight Pride Day for them. For us, one day out of the year is too much. I hate people.
BGinBigD
Could I LUV Chris Evans any more??
enhjoerning
I know, right!
Gary Q VV
Of course the idea of a so called “Straight Pride Day” or “Straight Pride” anything is unfathomable, or is it? Prior to our “LGBTQ Pride Month”, I recall when the idea of the early “Gay Marches”, then “Gay Parades”, seemed foreboding and even dangerous to some. But, those activities were two-fold functions: Uplifting support for our Gay and Lesbian community; And, in-your-face exposure to the society at large.
This “Straight Pride” thing could actually catch on as yet another devious plot to undermine our LGBTQ advances over the past 70+ years, yes 70+. There are an unbelievable amount of push-back oppositions to our advancements that are hidden deeply within all levels of legislative bodies, and companies, corporations, organizations, untraceable deeply-dark-monies, and yes, the in-your-face anti-LGBTQ activism.
Yeah, Happy Straight Day…yuck