Three dudes from Boston who call themselves “Super Happy Fun America” have filed for a permit to hold a “straight pride parade” in the city this summer and they’re threatening to sue if they don’t get what they want.
According to its website, Super Happy Fun America wants to “celebrate the diverse history, culture, and contributions of the straight community.”
The group consists of three members: President John Hugo and Vice President Mark Sahady, who identify as heterosexual, and “Gay Ambassador” Chris Bartley, who identifies as gay.
“Straight people are an oppressed majority,” Hugo says in a statement on the group’s website. “We will fight for the right of straights everywhere to express pride in themselves without fear of judgement and hate.”
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Last Thursday, Sahady posted on Facebook that the city of Boston was “working with them” on getting permits to hold their “straight pride parade” after the group filed a “discrimination complaint” against the city and officials realized they would likely “lose” in court.
“If you would like to come as an individual, march as a group, or bring a float or vehicle, then get in touch,” he wrote. “This is our chance to have a patriotic parade in Boston as we celebrate straight pride.”
Now, onto Bartley.
According to his Twitter profile, he’s a proud American, a follower of Jesus, a #GaysForTrump supporter, and a 2012 Eagle Scout.
His official bio on the Super Happy Fun America website reads:
As gay ambassador, Chris uses his status in the LGBTQ community to challenge heterophobia wherever it exists. He became involved in the straight pride movement after being ostracized from established advocacy groups for merely suggesting that straight people be afforded equal rights.
We reached out to Bartley for comment on his involvement with the group and asked specifically why, as a member of the LGBTQ community, he feels so passionately about promoting “Straight Pride.” Here is his unedited response:
Lemme say first Trump and his entire administration have identified June as pride month this year and every year. My motivation to participate in this years straight pride is to make the far left realize how insane they have become and how overarching they are. Many lgbt people have reached out to me and have said that gay pride is not the way it used to be. It used to be about fighting against the “man” and now it’s a drink and work with man. Essentially being a sheep. Gay pride used to be about free speech and now they are not. So this is why straight pride has become a reality. To showcase how extreme the left has become. I will be attending Gay Pride in Boston however will not be taking any questions from the media.
When contacted by BuzzFeed News for comment on the matter, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh responded with a general statement about the city’s planned LGBTQ Pride events.
“Every year Boston hosts our annual Pride Week, where our city comes together to celebrate the diversity, strength and acceptance of our LGBTQ community,” Walsh wrote.
“This is a special week that represents Boston’s values of love and inclusion, which are unwavering. I encourage everyone to join us in celebration this Saturday for the Pride Parade and in the fight for progress and equality for all.”
According to the city, Super Happy Fun America’s application for a parade permit has not yet been approved, and the group is required by law to have a permit in order to hold the event.
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mr guy
It’s silly enough to ignore… if there wasn’t a similarly unhinged co-dependent urge for rage-bait clicks from the usual desperate websites
Tombear
I don’t see why “straight pride” upsets so many in the LGBT community. As long as it’s not for homophobic purposes what’s wrong with that? America is about freedom or it was suppose to be about freedom.
ShiningSex
it’s makes the LGBT pride parade seem like a joke. DUH, that’s why
ShowMeGuy
Because it IS for homophobic purposes.
NorthBear
Please list the ways that heterosexual people have been oppressed and had to fight for the right to be recognized and then you can ask what’s wrong with “straight pride”.
truthseeker
@NorthBear
Well, they could come back and say the way they are denied rights is when they are denied a parade as the first example
If people are willing to pay for and get the appropriate permits, let them have their parade
DarkZephyr
Tombear, the whole purpose of this particular event is to make fun of LGBT pride. That is what one of those straight guys has put on his facebook page. The message is Anti-LGBT. That being said, I don’t feel like we should give these idiots any attention, because that is what they are hoping for from us.
BlueRamirez
Bitch you’re joking right?!
startenout
I love when people who didn’t study history try and say things about how America was settled on the principles of freedom. NONSENSE! The Puritans first settled here for THEIR freedom to practice THEIR religion which was stricter and harsher than that in England. These same people enslaved and decimated the native population and then Africans and the Declaration of Independence was only for landowning white men. So yeah, you don’t ;and shouldn’t) have the Freedom to do whatever you want like “straight pride” when even in your own statement there is nothing declaring what you actually have to be proud of and you just mock the lgbtq communities and political leanings of liberal people.
truthseeker
@startenout
Sounds like you’re saying they should’ve had stronger borders back then and not just let anyone come into the country (something I’m sure you’ll claim we don’t need currently)
Diplomat-G
@startenout.
Actually, you may need to pick up a history book yourself, the pilgrims were not the first people here and they did not come because of religious oppression as you state. Remember that the Pilgrims went first to Holland, settling eventually in the city of Leiden. There they encountered a religious tolerance almost unheard of in that day and age. Bradford and Edward Winslow both wrote glowingly of their experience. If a longing for religious freedom had compelled them, they probably never would have left. But while they cherished the freedom of conscience they enjoyed in Leiden, the Pilgrims had two major complaints: They found it a hard place to maintain their English identity and an even harder place to make a living. They came to the new world for an economic reason, not religion.
man5996853
What an utterly clueless comment.
A Straight Pride Parade is homophobic in and of itself. And this country is not about “freedom” as it has continually denied freedoms to various groups of people for a couple centuries. Pathetic straight males who are too dense to understand the freedom that they have simply by virtue of being born straight don’t deserve validation as well.
I hope that the parade ends at a cliff and there are no brakes on the vehicles driving the floats.
scotshot
This is all crap. Three incels posted “Straight Pride Parade” and got the attention they want / need.
They haven’t applied for a parade permit to be able to close streets and no mention of cost of the police needed to “protect” the parade route. If any of these people has more than $5.00 in their wallet they’re rich.
Besides, what contributions have these Incels made as a culture? Premature ejaculation.
Next.
desmond94114
Its completely homophobic and pays disrespect for 50+ years of fighting oppression. It undermines those who have died in order for LGBT to be seen. Unless you have been oppressed for being straight, beaten, kicked out of your home, fired from a job, or been executed for your sexuality, then this is a major issue with the LGBT. Be happy you dont need a straight pride. We did and still do since we are never going to be “equal”.
PoetDaddy
Fine, let the morons have their parade. Pathetic.
Mike_M
Is this where we point out to them that the original “patriots” hired an out gay man, Von Steuben, and and intersex person presenting as male, Pulaski, to train Continental Soldiers and defeat the British in the War for Independence?
LetsGetLit
What about Pu?aski?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
?Gays for Trump
?Blacks for George
Wallace
?Jews for Hitler
Virpilosus
Ummmm, have to admit, brother, that’s very few words with a HUGE point! Well done…
iamru2
More faux outrage! Seriously sometimes I think people enjoy having stories like this so they can have something to vent over!
NorthBear
You seem to be venting over other people venting.
startenout
Like the ONLY reason you’re trolling here.
ShiningSex
It almost sounds like “Well if the gays can do it, why can’t we?” which is childish and ignorant.
How were straight people treated differently, beaten, killed, or had to fight for the right to be who they are? This is a total joke and the gay guy involved is a joke.
startenout
Amen!
Virpilosus
A perfectly “shining” comment!
pharaon.em.joe
This gay guy obviously doesn’t understand the reason why pride exists
Caine
That guy needs to give back his toaster.
Inspector 57
Uh, yeah.
But then he’ll go on Ellen, act all the victim, not apologize, and she’ll give him a new toaster.
ShowMeGuy
All three of them need bitch-slapped and Chris Bartley deserves it backhanded.
Cam
The issue with things like Straight Pride, or White Marches is the reasoning behind them.
LGBT pride marches, or groups like the black student union are about minorities expressing pride and joy in who they are and networking with others to share experiences etc…
Straight Pride or White marches are in response to the civil rights others have. They are an attack on the idea of the other groups. If this guy wanted to have a “Straight Pride” march and clai it wasn’t an attack on LGBT pride, I would believe him more if he wasn’t planning it during LGBT pride month.
IWantAFullBeard
I NEED ATTENTION!!! I’LL SUE FOR ATTENTION! Ill EMBARRASS MYSELF AND MY FAMILY FOR ATTENTION. PLEASE LOOK AT ME!!!
That’s basically what they are saying. It’s rather pathetic and sad.
sfmike64
Closet cases are SO boring.
Cam
Mic Drop
TimothyBeauchamp
“Oppressed” Majority? Let’s talk when you’re straight bashed, lose your home or job for being straight. Better yet, how about passing laws we can refuse them medical care for sincere right wing conservative religious beliefs? “Oppressed” Majority? Come to Texas and say that.
Alexis
I would love to walk in Straight Pride in my rainbow underwear and flag, while wearing my f*** Dtrump T-shirt and kissing my bf. If it is all about inclusion, then they shouldn’t have a problem with that right???
UlfRaynor
Alexis, I think you’ve hit upon the solution; massive amounts of gay people should show up and march with them in a “show of support” adorned in all sorts of colorful rainbow attire, led by a score of drag queens carrying anti-Trump signs and passing out multi-colored condoms stamped with “First defense in unwanted pregnancies.”
bigcurve
I am considering doing the same, but without mocking their opinions. They have come up with a very brave idea and I like the innovation
Sotzume
I love the comment about the gay man’s “status in the LGBTQ community”…I live in Boston and I never heard of this dweeb. Its so ridiculous and its meant to demean Gay Pride….I will never understand how a gay man can align himself with Trump or any right win ideology.
Donston
Mostly narcissism and idiocy. Instead of indulging nuanced conversations when it comes to his issues when the “far left” he’s decided to abandon ship entirely. It’s the same thing with Kanye. Because you resent your “community” not agreeing with everything you think and not constantly giving you praise, you attach yourself to ideologies you don’t really believe in and attach yourself to people who will give you that validity and praise. Furthermore, being a basic looking semi fem white gay guy is not in the least bit special or subversive any longer. Some folks just want to feel special.
miks
Y’all don’t have “Straight Month Pride” ’cause you’re ugly! 😉
radiooutmike
How extreme the left has been?
What? This pisses me off because every marginalized community has to put up with this crap. Oh, the focus for a split-second is off of straight-white-cis-males? Quelle horreur!
Funny how you never see white-straight-cis-women clamoring for a straight pride parade.
re_horst
I NEED pictures of the massive turnout…
cr8054
Five people have in attendance?
queerbec
But the floats, dears, the floats! What will they be like? Overweight, dad-jean wearing straight white men, dancing with their beer bellies on floats pulled by semi’s? Guys in three piece suits falling all over themselves while they try to do the hokey-pokey? Half-naked hetero coupling in an Eden-like setting? Wife-beaters galore? Incels masturbating? It may be worth a trip to Boston to find out–then maybe again not. I wonder if Jesus will have a role?
cr8054
Men in KKK hoods, lots of confederate flags and country western music playing.
Virpilosus
Yikes, I can’t UNSEE everything you’ve just described; nightmarish!!! LOLOL.
bigcurve
Imagine how angry you’d be if somebody listed a million tawdry stereotypes about gay pride to tease you.
Now reflect on the fact that you just treated straights the very same way you wouldn’t want them to treat you.
What happened to the Golden rule?
Geeker
If this straight pride parade does happen I hope that traitorous homo gets run over by a float.
linx1240
yes, agreed
bigcurve
What a cruel comment. You know I’m considering going to this in a speedo and harness to show my support since most gays have been so mean to them?
Hillers
Can’t wait for it! So excited for the pictures!
cr8054
Want to bet the pictures magically disappear because no matter one came?
Kangol2
They could just photograph a traffic jam on I-90 and call it a (Straight Pride) day!
cr8054
Straights don’t need a pride month or parade. Every day is straight pride day and every parade is a straight pride parade. Heaven FORBID there would be something that’s not about them.
bigcurve
I would argue that a straight pride parade is long overdue, because straight people don’t often make a big deal about their sexuality like us gays tend to do. It would be perfectly reasonable for culture to seek out something different than the same ol’ slap a rainbow on everything and close down the streets to pump Britney and Gaga. It’s been done. Try something new at least once.
Wicked Dickie
Isn’t that what St. Patrick’s Day and Columbus Day parades are for?
DarkZephyr
I say ignore them at let the babies have their bottles. If we react we will give them what they want. Just ignore them and they will go away. These “straight pride” evens never attract many people. The fact that this one is getting so much attention from gay blogs is going to make it be more successful than it otherwise would have been. Just ignore it.
Brian
That would be nice, but I’m sure Queerty will run a dozen different articles on it just the same.
bigcurve
This is a much healthier take than the “throw the straights in the oven” Naziesque attitude I’m getting from many in this thread.
GentlemanCaller
Absolutely stupid and ignorable. On the other hand, maybe if we didn’t spend so much time demonizing straight males (or fetishizing them), they wouldn’t feel so pissy about everything.
Ukin Blome
let’s call it what it really is “Closet Queen Pride in Being Ashamed of Ourselves for Lying to Everyone about Who We Are Parade.”
IWantAFullBeard
I hear Aaron Schock is going to be leading the parade.
Bourgeois Pig
As a 50yo gay man from L.A. who lived through the AIDS Crisis while in H.S., witnessed friends lose their lives b4 the age of 20 and a few others in their early 20’s from AIDS. Not necessarily because of promiscuity but merely sleeping with the wrong person. I worked at the Beverly Center in WeHo/BHills in college as ActUp was fighting for LGBTQ rights and access to medical care and protesting along La Cienga Blvd. I’ve seen a friend in a monogamous relationship have his bf’s family come in when he passed in an auto accident and take his partners belongings because he had no “lethal rights” to them even though they shared the same home. This is what Gay Pride is about. Celebrating what people have fight hard for so the next generation can enjoy that progress and not regress back to second class citizens. When did Straight Pride need a parade? How hard did heterosexuals fight for those same rights? I’m not ranting, just reminding you this was just 30 years ago. Be proud and stand tall people.
paul dorian lord fredine
i know you mean well but saying someone had ‘no lethal rights’ really makes you sound stupid because, face it, it’s not a typo. it’s LEGAL, dumbass.
IWantAFullBeard
Paul – STFU
Bourgeois Pig
BTW Paul, yes it was a typo, which you already knew. Please know, arrogance is overcompensation for low self-esteem. You might want to go find some.
Franco
Well said Bourgeois Pig.
bigcurve
Plenty of straight people have their rights trampled daily. Nonviolent drug users, those arrested for existing while black, those who have property seized forcefully by the state, immigrants mistreated while seeking asylum…oppression is not an exclusively queer experience ya self absorbed jerk.
Mikey E
Many transgenders are straight. So when we gay folks accepted the absurd concept of “LGBT,” and we changed Gay Pride to “LGBT Pride,” we were, in effect, creating a form of Straight Pride.
IWantAFullBeard
Lol
Cam
You’re so desperate to turn any thread into an attack on Trans people, black people, when you aren’t busy defending anti-LGBTQ bigots.
Mikey E
@Cam – You may be surprised to learn that trans people and black people are not the same thing.
IWantAFullBeard
Oh Mikey, so dumb it’s sad. Do you know what a comma is? Evidently not.
Brian
I don’t see anything wrong with this. Part of our freedom to have Pride events is that any group should have the same right to organize their own event, even if it’s stupid. If they’re doing it to make fun of gay pride, that’s their right. If we can make fun of the president, they can make fun of us, it’s really simple.
And the next time someone says “how come there’s no straight pride parade” we now will have something to point to and tell them to have a seat.
patricklee5150
Wow! Do you intentionally try to offend the most people possible? We earned our right to have our Pride Parade because (and it is really annoying and pathetic that I have to school a grown A$$ person like this!) we have always been an oppressed people and then we fought back, Stonewall ring a bell? We have our pride parades as our way of screaming to the world that we HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST! It wasn’t a celebration in the beginning. So, I ask again, why in the hell would straight people need a pride parade? Oh, yeah, to mock us, to show us our place! I hate to break it to you, but I am rescinding your Gay Card effective immediately! Now, begone before a house lands on you!
Brian
You’re the one that needs to be schooled dear. Nobody has to earn the right to have a parade, they just have to fill out the right forms. If the KKK want to have a parade, they have just as much right as gay people do too. If you’re offended by everyone being treated equally, you’re the one with the problem. It’s attitudes like yours which perpetuate the belief that gay people want special rights, not equal rights.
If you don’t like the purpose of this parade, don’t go. How much simpler can it be?
Cam
Nobody said they don’t have the right. People are commenting that this isn’t a parade for their pride, it’s here as an attack on LGBTQ pride.
Brian
“We earned our right to have our Pride Parade”
That’s what I was responding to. What other interpretation is there other than “they haven’t earned the right to have their parade”?
bigcurve
I completely agree, Brian. Anyone else notice how toxic these folks sound when they insist you’re only allowed to throw a pride parade if it’s gay? How petty and shallow. Makes me ashamed, not proud, to be queer.
Dwik27
SO, what is it exactly about gay rights in general or a PRIDE parade specifically that has gone too far to the left??? Obviously this kid is low on IQ – and life experience. Nevertheless, I’m absolutely fine with a straight pride parade. Go for it. Just make sure you have good looking guys in Speedos dancing on your floats. And by good looking I don’t mean any of the three organizers.
baal61
Gimmick ” It got her noticed!”
Paco
All three look like Incels. The one admitting to being gay must be wanting to make gay people pay for rejecting him.
bigcurve
Do you actually think it’s cute to attack people like this for trying to have fun?
linx1240
I think it’s totally F”D UP
DHT
One of two things…either someone will throw a parade and nobody will come. I mean who is going to protest? Who is going to wave and cheer them on? The other alternative is that it turns into an alt right rally.
Brian
I think it’s gonna end up a combination of both. Some alt righters will come, thinking it’s gonna be a big thing, but I think most people are just gonna ignore it, other than the left wing media breathlessly covering it so their commentariat can foam at the mouths.
swamp bubble
Are you telling me a gay male is taking a controversial stance for attention? What A Shock!
jiminusa
As long as it is not hateful then let them have it the straight parade. We as LGBTs don’t tell anyone else that living a heterosexual lifestyle is bad. I mean, there are some pretty bad heteros but there are pretty bad homos as well. IMO the meaning of gay parade started getting diluted when it became the LGBTQAAIandanyotherletter parade. Gay parade and picnic afterwards are not about togetherness. My city has an African American tent set up at the festivities. We can’t be the only city doing that. I’d like to see a tent for European Americans. Do we need to separate by race ? We have become polarized and some people want desperately to be a victim of society and pretend to be harmed to get their 5 minutes of fame. Gay is good – and Straight is not so bad either.
inbama
Let it happen.
The unintended consequence of having a “straight pride” parade is it actually places sexual minorities and majorities on an equal footing.
Cam
Remember, when right wingers say “Too far left”….
What they mean is, LGBTQ people exist and aren’t ashamed of it….and that is too far for them.
michel_banen
“Straight people are an oppressed majority” is just hilarious as “Gay people are an oppressed minority”. Sounds sarcastic as can be and my guess it that it’s intentional. It’s a nice attempt to publicly state that straight and gay people are entitled to the same rights. So if gays can have their pride, why not straights too ? In an ideal world no pride should be necessary and I guess that is the exact point they try to make.
Cam
Except LGBT pride is a response to oppression, being attacked, for example, the governor of TN has said that LGBT people aren’t protected under the domestic violence laws because according to his religion their marriages aren’t real. THAT is what LGBT pride is about.
Straight Pride meanwhile seems to be about anger that bigots are being fought when they want to discriminate, i.e. defending people like the governor of TN, or an EMT who doesn’t want to save the life of an LGBT person who is injured.
So no, they aren’t the same thing.
Diplomat-G
“Straight people are an oppressed majority,” Hugo says, Someone needs to explain to this idiot that you can not use the word “majority” and “oppressed” in the same sentence and be taken seriously
michel_banen
I don’t think they try to be taken seriously.
Man About Town
This guy Bartley is so misguided it’s pathetic, especially his senseless “sheep” reference.
Raionmimi
So, we had Dashcon, the Fyre Festival, and Pokemon Go Fest… with Boston Straight Pride, the four horsemen of failed events will finally be complete
IGotWorked
As an avid gay Trump supporter, I’d rather go to the Straight Pride Parade than the Gay Pride Parade because I would be welcomed and accepted at the former and vilified and ostracized at the latter.
Ditto for anyone who is Jewish and supports Israel.
Ditto for anyone who loves America and supports our country.
The leftists are so completely unhinged they do not know they are the fascists, totalitarians, the banners of free speech, the embracers of hatred.
Wake up guys.