City officials in Modesto, California say they are considering granting a permit for a “Straight Pride” event scheduled for next month.
Organizer Don Grundmann from the National Straight Pride Coalition tells his local news station that the event is his group’s “cultural answer” to “anyone that supports the LGBTQ lifestyle.”
“Essentially it boils down to two religious views of the world,” Grundmann says. “One is Christianity, which is represented by heterosexuality, a culture of life, and its opponent is the LGBT movement, which is represented by an opposing religion and an opposing view of life.”
Grundmann, who calls drag queen story hours “mutilation of children,” has been circulating flyers around town that say: “Join us to celebrate heterosexuality, masculinity, femininity, babies–born and unborn–western civilization, our wonderful country, Christianity–Celebrate Life!”
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The event is scheduled for August 24, one week before the “Straight Pride” event in Boston.
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City officials say their phones have been “ringing off the hook” with people opposing the event.
“We’ve been getting letters, emails, comments, and phone calls all day about it,” says city council member Kristi Ah You.
Ah You adds that, while she supports free speech and first amendment rights, but doesn’t support the idea of a “Straight Pride” event.
“I think if we ignored it and let the people do whatever they’re going to do, I think maybe four or five people would show up.”
Meanwhile, city spokesman Thomas Reeves says it may be required by law to grant the permit even though they disagree with the event.
“So although the city does not share in the beliefs of some groups that choose to hold their events here, we may not be able to deny a permit based on an organization’s values,” Reeves said.
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Josh447
How embarrassing for true heteros. A bunch of gay male closet cases tooling a str8 pride parade to ‘prove’ their str8ness. Sick. No wonder true str8s are not having any of it.
AlexanderRogers1519
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Brian
Did you actually read the article? This has nothing to do with sexuality, it’s about religion.
rbernard
Pride is about LGBTQ people being able to form relationships with the ones they fall in love with, regardless of gender, and being able to be yourself.
Why are these straight people always make our freedom to be ourselves, as some sort of an attack on them?
Unless straight people are marginalizing and discrimination against the LGBTQ, I don’t think anyone on our side cares much about what heteronormative folks think.
When I am with my husband, I do not think what they do in bed.
If Don Grundmann doesn’t like gay sex, then he shouldn’t do it, but he should not make his dinky parade in Modesto as anything more than a celebration of those with insecurities with people who are simply free to love who they want to love.
PinkoOfTheGange
Okay this idiot claims that GLBT is a religion…so dose that mean:
we get religious freedom to discriminate at will;
not allow others to discriminate against us in any way;
and not pay taxes?
Cool, more power to him; it seems a fair trade for a POS celebration in a Central Valley farm town in August.
Mack
Now correct me if I’m wrong here, but if he says we’re a “religion” doesn’t that give us protected rights? And doesn’t make any part of the LGBTQ community a tax exempt entity?
Terrycloth
I laugh out loud when I hear “straight ” parade.
oilburner
OMF! So Meth-desto is getting a straight pride parade. (Possibly) What’s the worse that could happen? It’ll be a handful of tweakers and all the homeless people that live in that park and bathe in its fountain. I used to live a couple block from there maybe I’ll do a drive by if it happens for a good laugh.
wikidBSTN
Listen – don’t criticize them. Don’t waste your breath. Turn out will be pathetic and largely ignored unless gays go around screaming hysterically that there is something to see here. There isn’t. They are idiots and they are few. Let them have their day.
CarrieV
I agree about who they are. But this is NOT about them trying to show straight pride. This is a Nazi/white pride parade, nothing less. Please have your heterosexual INTERRACIAL couples attend. Let the attendees be straight, but let them not be whites-only.
The sight of icky (to them) interracial couples will shorten this atrocity to mere minutes. This is a dog and pony show that needs exposing for the racist exposition that it truly is.
Tomma
For a ‘Straight’ pride parade, that’s a pretty gay looking sign.
Kangol2
Instead of the stock photo, why not show the face of this racist, closet-case homophobe Don Grundmann, Queerty?
Let the world know who this creep, who’s misrepresenting Christianity and slandering LGBTQIA people, really is. You should also let people know Grundmann’s group the “California Straight Pride Coalition,” also “affirms the ‘superiority’ of ‘whiteness’ and the ‘Caucasian’ race.”
So this isn’t just about “straight pride,” and Grundmann’s not just fronting an anti-gay, false-Christian hate group but a white supremacist and nationalist one as well.
(Anyone who wants to know more can Google “Modesto Group Calling for Straight Pride Parade & “Superiority” of “Whiteness” Includes GOP Committeeman”)
Brian
Oh God, is whining about using stock photos going to be the latest broken record post in every article? Like we really don’t have enough of those already?
sfmike64
Just like Boston, this is going to crash and burn spectacularly. I’m guessing not even 20 people will show up in a place like Modesto. People got shit to do. Like clean their gutters and change the oil in their truck.
CarrieV
This “Straight Pride” parade is of course nothing more than a Xtian, right-wing, homophobic, xenophobic, racist right-wing parade meant to be praised and covered exclusively on their far-right websites as a success story for straight white male Xtians.
But if anyone here knows of any INTERRACIAL couples (male/female), please encourage them to go. They’re not openly touting this as a white/Nazi thing. But that’s what it is. If mixed-race couples attend en masse, say with their beautiful biracial children, then we’ve taken away a lot of their pro-white ammo.
Please consider having any straight interracial couples/families you may know attend and carry rainbow paraphernalia!