I've objected to it most of my life, to the whole Pride thing, mainly on taste grounds, it has to be said. I don't begrudge anyone having a party. I do begrudge people mistaking their sexuality for some massively important signifier which demands that other people then not just respect them, but pay them some special dues.
And actually, in actual fact, you could see this. So I've stumbled across Pride a couple of times in my time. I've never gone, but I've stumbled across it a few times. And one of the things that on a simple matter of aesthetics and taste that I deeply dislike, is seeing a bunch of disco gays on top of a bus, waving to the public as if they're celebrities. Sorry, love, you're not a celebrity, you're just gay. That's all. And you shouldn't treat the general public as your audience, waiting for them to celebrate the magnificent, wonderful you.
So I think there's just this nasty narcissism at the heart of this and I've got no time for it.