Yes!Weekly reports that Greensboro’s children’s museum once again is an integral part:
When Greensboro Pride returns downtown on Saturday, it will be the city’s largest LGBTQIA+ festival to date, spreading out from LeBauer Park to Church, Davie, and Lindsay Streets and Friendly Avenue. This expanded footprint includes over 400 vendors, two stages, and a KidZone in the parking lot of the Miriam P. Brenner Children’s Museum. New this year are two ticketed venues, the VIP Space and the Stars of Pride Meet & Greet.
This reminds me once again about the biblical image of a millstone hanging around the neck drowning those who cause children to stumble.
I have a question. Are City Resources being expended on this bacchanalian display of aberrant life styles?
The media doesn’t seem interested in telling the full story of the conduct that seen at LGBTQ+ Pride events.
The thing I dislike the most is pride events and Pride month. There is nothing prideful about them, over the years they have been commercialized as much, if not more than Valentines Day or even Christmas. Every bloody company gets a new logo with the pride colors, puts out a few hollow statements about how they support LGBT rights and hey, we got this new sale, why don’t you buy their limited edition LGBT bracelet or mug or T-shirt? It’s free PR for every company, mostly companies that don’t really care if the person buying their stupid, overpriced, pride garbage is a gay, lesbian, trans, white supremacist, or an average Joe. They only see this as a chance to profiteer out of these people and nothing else.
Another thing that rubs me the wrong way is, why only the LGBT pride events that get this huge of a coverage? Almost nobody talks about war veterans in November, events for homeless people get next to no coverage by the media and Day of People with Disability is hardly noticed. There are no events for single parents, and Father’s Day gets minimum attention when to compared to the Mother’s one. All this separation in events that are supposed to bring us together.
Honestly, these events are redundant. Many, if not most western countries, have acknowledged the LGBT, the inequality they face, and the few rights that are missing, most importantly rights such as same sex marriage or adoption have been declared permissible by SCOTUS. If you really want these events to mean something, hold them in the Middle East, in China, and the 3rd world countries. Let’s be real, gays getting killed and persecuted on a regular basis is a much bigger issue than any inequality that is found in the West.
Yes, Fred. City resources are being expended, directly and indirectly. These events are a mess; and getting children involved makes it that much worse. The redundancy you mention is apt– we have Pride Month, and then pride festivals, etc. The disproportionate coverage you mention is also a huge problem. The media wolves like to play up these events, as you say.