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[With Pride month just around the corner, the annual respectability debate has come to the foreground. Lots of apparent 4channers, some 'GC' people, and a bunch of young queerfolk unfamiliar with our history and susceptible to the arguments of the first two groups, have been all over Twitter trying to equate Leather Daddies and Pups at pride with having sex in front of children. Many older or more history-aware queerfolk have been pushing back and trying to educate, explaining why kink groups have always been part of Pride, why that's important, and how bogus the "seeing somebody wearing fetishwear is equivalent to being forced to watch them fuck" rhetoric is so misguided. That's the context of the quote below, from the middle of a thread.]

"pride isnt the opposite of hate. pride is the opposite of shame. the events aren't called pride by accident. as much as the character and tone of these events have changed over time, to turn them into 'anti hate' rather than 'anti shame' events is total capitulation to homophobia" -- michael wave (SzMarsupial), 2021-05-18