Absolutely not. Not appropriate for young children. I seriously question the judgement of anyone bringing their children to these events.

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Anonymous wrote:I came for the snark and can't believe there is none.

In what universe is this appropriate for children?

Says someone who has never been to a Pride event. Most are family friendly.

I supposed you want a POTUS that likes to "grab them by the pu$$y"

Looked like key west on steroids in the 1990s.

I recall our kids school read some crazy picture book of the NYc gay pride parade with illustrations of men in tutus, @$$less chaps, kissing each other.
Sounded like a hoot and a half when the teacher read that to the class.

No

I grew up going to Pride in Boystown in Chicago. I definitely won’t take my kids until/unless one comes out as gay and they are teens. Most pride events are absolutely inappropriate for children because they are very explicitly sexual, and call me crazy, but I think it’s abusive to expose young children to sex.

I’ve never seen a pride event that was truly just about equal rights and celebration of being LGB, and I’ve been to many. There are always weird people wearing scary leather dog masks and bondage gear, lots of furries in lingerie, and now a lot of trans ideology. I would never expose little kids to any of that. Bring back the wholesome days of men in glittery gold thongs.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve normally attended pride events in Atlanta before kids. These were borderline raunchy - if you are similar to my age — pride in Atlanta was borderline freaknik for the black lgbtq community. Not particularly kid friendly. Lots of skin exposure, pda, etc. I was only there for the glitter and feather boas! Having not been in Dc for pride - have any of you attended and is it appropriate to bring your kids?

Never seen one that was kid friendly, which is unsurprising because pride month is fundamentally about sex. It's like Oktoberfest stuff. That's fundamentally about drinking alcohol, also not kid-friendly.

Pride is not fundamentally about sex. At least no more than a straight wedding is fundamentally about sex.

I would have thought the relevant analogy to a straight wedding would have been a gay wedding. I didn’t realize that pride events only celebrated people making a solemn commitment to devote their lives to each other.

No. I’m queer but I don’t consider events centered around sexuality appropriate for children. If my teens wanted to go I would allow it. But not younger than that.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not. However my kids are early elementary school and have no interest in partners of any gender and dont discuss boyfriend/girlfriend stuff at all. If I had an inkling that my kids might be gay, or if they had friends that were, or if we had family that was, we would.

So, if someone does feel queer in July- they are just SOL for 11 months? I take my two 'straight' DS to events, it's also about being an ally and not looking like a fool later in life when presented with different types of folks.

Is going to Pride really the only way to teach your kids tolerance?

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Anonymous wrote:No. Taking them to church instead.

More chance of molestation at church than Pride.

More chance of salvation at church, too.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:I am not. However my kids are early elementary school and have no interest in partners of any gender and dont discuss boyfriend/girlfriend stuff at all. If I had an inkling that my kids might be gay, or if they had friends that were, or if we had family that was, we would.

So, if someone does feel queer in July- they are just SOL for 11 months? I take my two 'straight' DS to events, it's also about being an ally and not looking like a fool later in life when presented with different types of folks.

DP here. They are presented with different types of folks all year long at public school. I don't say that snarkily. But my kids are abundantly aware that all different types of people exist.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Taking them to church instead.

More chance of molestation at church than Pride.

There are sexual deviants at both places

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Anonymous wrote:No. Taking them to church instead.

Our church marches in the parade every year! As do many others.

Ours too! We’re going to try to go to one of the events later in the month, but will be out of town for the next two weekends unfortunately.

Some of you are so pressed that other parents don't want to take their kids to pride events, LOL. If other parents think it's not for them and their kids, how does that affect you and your kids?

If you were truly into it, you wouldn't care at all about outside opinions. You care what other parents think when you're doing it primarily to virtue signal.

No one invited me or sent me any advertisements for events.

To me Pride is about visibility in the mainstream, so I'll leave it to people who are Proud to come out and do their thing wherever they go. I'll wave if a rainbow 🌈 float passes my house.

Anonymous wrote:No. Taking them to church instead.

Our church marches in the parade every year! As do many others.