in 20 years there will not be a Donald Trump. there may or may not be a united states. but there will absolutely be gays and trans people.
Not much is going to change if Trump dies… It might even get worse.
I think it would. None of these other guys have the charisma to hold together his movement. You have to have a personality to maintain a cult of personality.
That is beautiful.
there will absolutely be gays and trans people.
True, homosexuality isn’t going away. However, while I would rate it as quite unlikely, I could imagine a world where sodomy laws returned, social norms changed, and homosexuality became a taboo again. There have been places and times in human history where the acceptability of homosexuality have varied quite a bit. I don’t think that social norms on homosexuality are really tightly linked to technology or something where there’s a clear “arrow” driving in one direction over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_homosexuality
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place. Attitudes to male homosexuality have varied from requiring males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death. In addition, it has varied as to whether any negative attitudes towards men who have sex with men have extended to all participants, as has been common in Abrahamic religions, or only to passive (penetrated) participants, as was common in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Female homosexuality has historically been given less acknowledgment, explicit acceptance, and opposition.
Homosexuality was generally accepted in many ancient and medieval eastern cultures such as those influenced by Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism.[1][2] Homophobia in the eastern world is often discussed in the context of being an import from the western world,[3][4] with some contending that definitions of “progress” on homosexuality (e.g. LGBT rights) as being Western-centric.[5]
I mean, that’s a patchwork at any point in time, and one that hasn’t changed in a single direction over time.
Gays will be around till Jesus returns.
For the second cuming?
Not necessarily, though.
LGBT will exist as long as humans exist.
Not necessarily
My take: business interests do not in the main care about Pride or DEI. They care about PR.
Pride is a resistance not a party! Get back to our roots. We don’t need another US Bank float.
Never forget that Pride started as a riot.
I’ve been to Pride events outside of the US and not a fucking corporate sponsor in sight with their goofy gayed-out logos and they were awesome. Fun, informative, inclusive and free. We can celebrate all of these “inclusive” events by not buying a single “corporate” product for the whole month, starting with those that used to show support.
Straight ally checking in. Started growing my own food last year, mainly as a hobby to keep me from doom scrolling so much. But I really like this idea and am going to try not buying anything but gas the entire month.
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