Whatley wrote:
This kind of thing doesn't help the gay situation, sorta like a parade. When needing to be tolerated it is best to keep a low profile, simply common sense,
People don't need to be tolerate or feel like they have to be 'tolerated'. That's part of the problem.
I would've thought unisex toy aisles desexualise it if anything. None of this is sexual. If they are under 16 (the law here, sorry, I know it is different across different states there and it is difficult to keep up as there are 50 of them!).
The reason there were parades is because of the amount of change they effected. I don't go to any kind of parade or protest for anything I believe in but at the same time I recognise how much change resulted from them. There are still huge problems worldwide - until very very recently for example, if you were gay and your partner (maybe of a lifetime) was dying you were not allowed in to see them. There's a film called 'If these Walls could talk 2' which is a really good illustration of this. It is a good film as well.
People just want to live their lives.
Personally I hate the over the top stuff as I feel it's counterproductive. Maybe that's just what you're saying.
We don't want to be 'tolerated'. If it's your daughter, son, so on... why should they have to live like that? It's like how people with disabilities were tolerated up until recently. People just want to live normal lives. The vast majority. What you see on Twitter and so on is NOT representative, just like what you see on Twitter is not representative of Republicans either. Social media and the internet show the very worst tbh. If you met gay people in real life, at least the ones I know, you wouldn't know, and you would like them, as with anyone else, there is a cross-section of good, bad. It's like all of this 'woke' stuff now - it generates clicks and so they rev it all up to get people annoyed.