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Proud of Pride? Is Pride useful anymore?

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    #32
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,978 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I think there was an Onion article by that title before.


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    Enigma365
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭Enigma365


    The gay pride parade in Vancouver, Canada took place last weekend. It attracted over 300,000 spectators, both gay and straight, and was a huge event. A lot of the big companies sponsored it and put ads in the local papers wishing everyone a happy pride. Many straight local politicians, including the Mayor marched in it.

    I'm unsure whether gay pride parades do anything to further acceptance or simply reinforce negative/false stereotypes. However, in Vancouver, where I am now, there is definetely a lot more positive acceptance of gay people than in Dublin and this much bigger and brasher gay pride event(than Dublins) seemed to have only positive reaction.


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    #34
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Stark wrote:
    I think there was an Onion article by that title before.


    Dunno if this was what you were talking about but the Onion have just reinstated access to their archives

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28491

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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