There was a terrorist attack on a Pride event in Berlin not long ago. To be honest I think most of the “people” commenting on it on my corner of Facebook were bots. Maybe. I don’t know.
This last one I am sure is a human.
I (white middle-class Brit) grew up going to child-friendly drag shows. They were called “pantomimes” and they were very popular. They were a family-friendly Christmas activity, you’d go to the theater and there would be sing-alongs for the kids and the odd naughty joke from the drag queen. My primary school would take everyone out to one when Christmas rolled round.
This was VERY NORMAL in the UK. Drag queens were NORMAL. They were on TV, they were in movies, they were NORMAL. Let’s take a look at the reaction to this horrific story about an innocent man labelled as a pedophile for being a drag queen.
Huh…. I guess no-one cares about white British cultural heritage anymore.
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But they can’t have believed that strongly in inclusion or marginalised groups, or they would have fought. Also, I was a Girl Guide, and I hated every damn minute of it.
It wasn’t just my Pride flag that got torn down. (Course, I say torn down but I didn’t actually see that. It could have been that the wind just blew it away. I kind of doubt it given the area I’m in, though.) They’re being torn down elsewhere in Leicester in direct acts of intimidation towards LGBT people.
Someone posted about it on r/leicester. I joined in. It wasn’t fun. There was the “clearly a hoax, no LGBT person has ever been abused” person:
The people who insist they’re not allowed to fly the English flag despite one flying in virtually every town for as far back as people can remember:
Guys who just really, really want to be allowed to say the r-word:
And same old tiresome , tiresome storybook monsters who think I’m a fool and a hypocrite for caring about other people.
Meanwhile, people have been killed for flying Pride flags.
If you’re British you’ve probably already heard of the campaign to fly English flags everywhere to “protest” migrants being in the UK. It is deeply upsetting and upsetting the people around me as well.
Unfortunately one particularly obnoxious flag is now flying in my home village. I looked at it and I thought how desperately unfair it was that that flag is allowed to be plastered over every city as a “you’re not welcome” to migrants, while the victims of the Pulse massacre got their flag painted over as a warning to LGBT people.
So I found a small flag I got from the Leicester Pride event and wrote on it.
Then me and Dave, god bless him, went out in the dead of night and attached the Pride flag to the lamppost.
Went past the same lamppost today and the Pride flag was gone. I was disappointed but not surprised. I wonder what happened to it. Did anyone read the message?
Here’s me!
And here’s a video I took and now can’t upload to anywhere else because it’s too big:
