"Compared to Harvey Milk and Stormé DeLarverie, the LGBTQIA+ activists of today seem like drunken brawlers still swinging their arms at imaginary foes even after the pub is shut." https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1301239958565519360
"Pride has descended into a corporate orgy of identitarianism. The rainbow flag and all its tawdry spinoffs are a marker of virtue for companies that wish to sell products to the gullible and declare their commitment to ‘diversity and inclusion’."
"Most corporations were certainly not celebrating Pride quite so openly before Section 28 was repealed in 2003, or before the age of consent was equalised in 2001, or before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Scotland in 1980...
...Their commitment to LGBT rights apparently only manifests itself when it is likely to make them a profit."
"a shame that the flag no longer appears to be a symbol of empowerment or a tribute to the success of historical gay struggles, but is rather a tool for avaricious corporations and a signal of one’s fealty to a divisive ideological worldview."
"some of the most vicious and bullying individuals on social media carry rainbow flags in their bios, a depressing example of what happens when good causes are hijacked by intolerant identitarians. "
"Even Stonewall, the UK’s pre-eminent gay-rights group, is stoking division with its homophobic redefinition of ‘homosexuality’ as ‘same-gender attraction’ rather than ‘same-sex attraction’...
...If we’re serious about gay equality, it’s time to jettison this self-satirising and self-indulgent brand of identity politics and focus on our common humanity."
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