While I argee with this, it should be at least a little dumbed down since kids are ussually at pride parades (from my knowlledge correct me if im wrong)
If a parent is comfortable with their child being around something like nudity or generic kink imagery, that’s up to them. Children being aware that humans have genitals or have sex is NOT the same as involving them in sexual activity. Seeing a naked body generally is not traumatic.
If people are bringing children to spaces/events that were built by adults for adults, it is NOT the responsibility of the adults to censor themselves because of it. It is on the children’s guardians to determine what is appropriate for their own kids.
Should we then have separate Pride parades thats SFW that allows kids to participate? There are LGBTQ kids who would likely feel emboldened by seeing so many fellow queer people
The problem with Pride is that it's a bit of a grey area between a 4th of July street faire and Folsom. Reasonable people can have reasonable disagreements about how much is too much and the larger world (to say nothing of the interwebs) is not good at having reasonable disagreements.
Especially when there are so many people in the world dead-set on bad faith undermining of any actual discussion of what is and is not proper Pride behavior.
The con can't control what the convention center allows them to do, and the convention center is run by Davis County. Hopefully they'll be able to move to Salt Palace or somewhere where they can be more relaxed about stuff. But I'm pretty sure Giga said that they keep trying to push the DCC more
This isn’t really the platform here to discuss the more nuanced differences of a “family first” convention vs an “all ages” mixed space. The fact is there were queer individuals didn’t feel safe or welcome dressing according to their identities, and that was not the fault of the venue.
Additionally the staff leaping immediately towards a victim and persecution response instead of actually discussing or addressing concerns in any way was not ok.
I’m happy to discuss things with the con, but the con has made it absolutely personally crystal clear they have no desire to at all.
I don’t wish ill of the convention, I hope they can get their stuff in order, but 2023 was the last AWU for me. My personal values and desire to protect queer spaces from being redefined and repackaged into something palatable by outsiders at the cost of authenticity is just a non starter for me.
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I won’t be there, because I’m uninterested in marching in the street to show how normal and inoffensive I am.
To me, Pride is a protest against the sort of box “polite society” has tried to put me and my fellow queer people in. I’m not climbing in that box.
why ppl so afraid of dick
I’m happy to discuss things with the con, but the con has made it absolutely personally crystal clear they have no desire to at all.