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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I witnessed a Pride event when I was 8 or 9. BDSM, naked/almost naked men on leashes, etc. It wasn't the most traumatizing thing I experienced as a child, but I won't be taking my own kids. Let them have their innocence.[/quote]

I wonder if this was an 80s thing because I remember seeing a similar event when I was a child. This was in Dupont but I don’t remember if it was a pride event or watt. It must’ve been because why else would I have seen that? It certainly made an impression because it’s stuck with me all of these years.[/quote]

Pride has gotten a lot bigger and more mainstream since we were young.

IMO that makes it a bit overdone in some places.
If it's mainstream, it's nothing to be proud about. Enjoy the victory and move onward.

Pride isn't pride unless it's somewhere people hate it.
If everyone who doesn't like it can stay home and avoid it, it's in the wrong place.
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We celebrate other things that involve the ending of something bad.  Juneteenth, the 4th of July, Veteran's Day (Armistice Day in other countries), Women's Suffrage, Passover.  So, even if we get to the point where discrimination and violence towards LGBT+ people is completely over, then celebration might be in order.

But, unfortunately, we aren't there yet.  [/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Pride isn't saying the end of discrimination and violence.  And what is passover the "end of" I don't get your post at all[/quote]

Passover celebrates the end of enslavement of the Jews in Egypt.  
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Technically, it celebrates the exodus from Egypt.  And as a jew, I would say it has ended nothing in terms of persecution.  So maybe that was a poor example[/quote]

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