It’s Pride Month. Be Exactly What I Want or Shut Up

Hey, you – are you queer? It’s Pride Month, and it’s time for all of you to celebrate who you really are and how great it is to be exactly who you are. That means everyone needs to shut up and let me speak for all people, because too many non-pride-approved folks are out here talking nonsense about how tired they are of certain things, and they need to stop being so prideful and shut the X up.
As a de facto queer person, I am tired of dealing with all your comments about pride and how it isn’t always inclusive or everyone can show up and make a fuss. It’s a festival of freedom and expression, and anyone who isn’t thrilled by that is just jealous of those of us who actually have pride and aren’t afraid to express it proudly. To those folcks, I say, every day is pride month for you. You always get to be proud about your Miller High Life and your cisgenger proms and your society that bends over backwards to convince you that you’re normal, and we, the oppressed classes of society that have joined together in this one short month to express that we might be 1% proud of not being you, um, where was I going with this? I’m not sure, but you suck.
Pride is about being loud and proud about who you are, and that means that anyone who doesn’t get it can take their hate and self-hate elsewhere. This is OUR time to be happy, and that means YOU don’t get to have an opinion, just to be clear. And if you disagree, then you’re not queer enough to even deserve an opinion about anything. Gentle reminder.
On this Pride Month, as cracker-coded honkies are murdering brave freedom fighters of colour in Gaza, Rafah, and other places I never normally think about, maybe put your own pride aside for once and stand strong with those people who are so obviously better than you, because they are 1000% more oppressed by you. Those poor Palestinian LGBTQIA+ kids fighting for their right to exist in Palestine – let’s remember them, not the people who murdered them. Just think about that when you’re taking over a straight bar and asking for free shots because you’re queer, and then getting mad because they throw you out. During PRIDE MONTH. Smh. And I’m not even technically queer, though I could be.
There’s no point in discussing things like boundaries or inclusivity during Pride Month. It’s a time for us to finally be ourselves and shout it from the rooftops, and if that offends others, well, then they don’t deserve to be included anyway. This is Pride Month, so let’s leave everyone else out and enjoy each other’s company instead. That’s the real magic of Pride Month, being so fabulous and queer and fabulous that everyone else just fades away into nothingness. Hopefully for real this time.
Gentle Reminder.