Honestly when I first started hearing about pride parades I started I thought the idea was pretty dumb. To some extent I still think that now. It does really separate the gay community from everyone else. It's as if the parade is to say that we want to be separat, that we don't want to be treated normally.  
If anything, it should include all sexualities. That would be a true parade of acceptance and equality. "Pride" shouldn't be just be the gay community, it should eb the Stragiht community, for if we want to be accepted and treated as "normal," we must give out treatment regaurdless of their views. "Pride" really should just be about pride in who you are, without the implied "gay" in front of it. It should just be "Self-Pride" not "gay pride" 
Sure they may be fun and all, but what's the point if you're going to get the overly politically active, the ones there just for an excuse to take countless drugs, and the ones that are there to just set themselves apart. If you're there to just stand up and just declare you have your self-pride, than go ahead and have your parade, make a little noise, but encourage others to join, gay, straight or w/e. 
 
-Michael

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