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Gay pride is all well and good, but I wish there were more of a sense of gay loss. Or gay “there’s a hole in your life where your family should be, but they hate you because you’re gay.” Or gay “you don’t get to have security in your religion or ethnic roots, because they don’t accept people like you.” Or gay “good luck affording anything as an adult with no financial support.” Or gay “you better not fuck up, because there’s nowhere for you to go if you fail.”
I’m not trying to be a victim or play for sympathy; rather, what I want to say is that the sort of commercialized Gay Pride™ that doesn’t have any darkness behind it feels kind of hollow, to me.
Gay pride is all well and good, but I wish there were more of a sense of gay loss. Or gay “there’s a hole in your life where your family should be, but they hate you because you’re gay.” Or gay “you don’t get to have security in your religion or ethnic roots, because they don’t accept people like you.” Or gay “good luck affording anything as an adult with no financial support.” Or gay “you better not fuck up, because there’s nowhere for you to go if you fail.”
I’m not trying to be a victim or play for sympathy; rather, what I want to say is that the sort of commercialized Gay Pride™ that doesn’t have any darkness behind it feels kind of hollow, to me.
