Pride Month

[ForTheHoard]

Look what they did to my bros in San Francisco

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7247552621274238250

Gorillas are vegan fags, but even they don't deserve this.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7247944926141353262

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What they don't show you is the two chimps driving an old pick up truck around the enclosure with another chimp being dragged behind it.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Weimar.

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I swear I saw that same flag on AliExpress or some other similar website. Also it's hilarious how this person fails to understand that communist regimes were as unkind to the Jewish people as a certain Austrian was. Advocating for the destruction of your own kind, very lol much irony.

College Marxists are a dime a dozen but the ones who are still wearing Che shirts past the age of 30 are the true idiots.

 

[ForTheHoard]

I swear I saw that same flag on AliExpress or some other similar website. Also it's hilarious how this person fails to understand that communist regimes were as unkind to the Jewish people as a certain Austrian was. Advocating for the destruction of your own kind, very lol much irony.

College Marxists are a dime a dozen but the ones who are still wearing Che shirts past the age of 30 are the true idiots.

When Stalin died of a brain hemorrhage, he was at the end phase of planning a 2nd holocaust against Jews in Russia. The Doctor's Plot had started only a month or two before he croaked. Jews won the lottery when Stalin keeled over dead, because he would have made the Third Reich look like a puppet show.

I hate to use a warhammer reference but academic communists remind me of the genestealer cults. Their version of history is so heavily redacted and edited that they pray for salvation from people like Lenin and Trotsky without having the information to know their kind will be the first in line to be purged in the event that they "win."

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

Google drops drag show sponsorship in wake of Christian employee petition​

NY Post / Archive

Might be nothing, this is Google after all, but interesting.

 

[Kees H]

Google is a hotbed of tranny activists, so I hope they do something funny like go on strike like the trannies did at Netflix. At least I hope they give us some milk.

 

[Fenno McLeod]

I'm subscribed to a few PR/marketing publications. I've seen a few articles come out about the Bud Light controversy. It's interesting to see how they try to downplay the impact that collaborating with Dylan had on the brand. This one article that came out in April tried to make it seem like consumers weren't as mad about the collaboration as they appeared to be on social media.

A few quotes:

The study finds that people perceive greater moral outrage in political posts than the authors felt when writing those posts. And that seems especially true for those turning to social media to learn about a political issue.

Marketers need to resist the very human tendency to overreact to online vitriol. Rather than jumping to conclusions and ending a campaign, "you need to do market research before interpreting the social media outrage. The combination of algorithmic amplification and perception biases people have can make it seem that outrage is more intense than it really is," he says.

Of course, there are exceptions when it seems outrage might hurt market share. "These cases are exceedingly rare, however," Brady says. "In general, research shows that "canceling" is not nearly as prevalent as most people think it is."

This week, I got another email from a different publication, where they now admit that the backlash was bad, but seem to try to give LGBT consumers some of the credit for the boycott.

Since going live, the ad drew criticism from conservative audiences, with some social media users posting footage of themselves pouring out Bud Light and calling for a boycott of the brand. In response, the company’s leadership tried to distance the brand from the partnership.

This move drew more backlash, this time from the LGBTQ+ community, causing some LGBTQ+ bars to stop serving products from Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company.

By May, Bud Light experienced a 23% drop in sales compared to the prior year, and a dip in stock price. It’s worth noting, the controversy may not be the only deciding factor of Bud Light’s declining sales. Alcohol consumption has been on the decline for some time, especially among younger millennials and Gen Z.

This series of events has been dubbed the “Bud Light effect” which may give companies some pause when it comes to sharing controversial topics.

Despite what critics of the Mulvaney ad may say, Bud Light has a long history of LGBTQ+-inclusive marketing. The brand has been in partnership with GLAAD since 1998, has sponsored multiple Pride celebrations, and ran an ad in 2016 depicting the wedding of a same-sex couple... However, by downplaying the partnership with Mulvaney the brand makes its prior inclusive marketing efforts appear inauthentic, further alienating customers.

Even though the article mentions that there was also backlash from "conservative audiences", those are mentioned as an aside, whereas the article really seems to focus on the response from LGBT customers, and even tries to downplay the response by attributing it to other unrelated factors.

I don't have a big point to make with this information, just wanted to share it, as I haven't seen anyone talking about what marketing people are actually saying about this. It doesn't seem like they've really learned anything, so get ready for more woke and tone-deaf ad campaigns, I guess.

 

[ZMOT]

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there's one way to stay ahead of the curve, if you say you come for the kids from the start, anyone calling you a pedo is late. quite an interesting tactic.

I hate to use a warhammer reference but academic communists remind me of the genestealer cults. Their version of history is so heavily redacted and edited that they pray for salvation from people like Lenin and Trotsky without having the information to know their kind will be the first in line to be purged in the event that they "win."

they know, but they either think they'll be important enough to not end up at the wall like the other trash or "this time it won't happen", because history isn't cyclical or something...

 

[Canned Ham]

S / A

LAKE STEVENS — For the past two years, Mayor Brett Gailey signed a proclamation declaring June as Pride Month in Lake Stevens.
Not this year.
Gailey made it known that he is withholding his signature due to personal beliefs. That’s according to City Council member Anji Jorstad, who wrote the city’s first Pride proclamation in 2021.
The move surprised some and disappointed others.
“If Brett actually believed what he signed in the proclamation before, then I don’t understand how those beliefs can change,” Casey Strom, a Lake Stevens Pride board member, said in an interview late last week. “It makes me think either he was lying before or he’s lying now.”

At a May 2021 city council meeting, Gailey even discussed the need for a Community Advisory Council to promote inclusivity.
“I see this council leading our community in celebrating diversity as an important asset in our welcoming city,” Gailey said at the meeting in 2021.
Gailey did not respond to multiple requests for comment to discuss his apparent change of heart.
Pride proclamations are a significant marker of support and safety for the LGBTQ+ community, Strom said.

This year, Gov. Jay Inslee, County Executive Dave Somers, and city officials in Snohomish, Lynnwood, Edmonds, Mill Creek, Mukilteo and Mountlake Terrace have signed Pride proclamations. Many Snohomish County cities, including Monroe and Arlington, have hosted official Pride events or partnered with their community’s nonprofit Pride organizations.
In response to Gailey’s decision, Jorstad sought council support. But when she offered a motion to discuss the proclamation at a June 13 council meeting, only one other council member, Mary Dickinson voted in favor. The other five voted against.
During the public comment portion of the meeting, several community members expressed disappointment.
“(It) is not OK if this is what our city is representing — a lack of visibility and lack of representation,” resident Terry Bakavich said. “You should do better.”
Strom said what he found most disappointing wasn’t that the council majority denied the proclamation, but that they refused to discuss it. He sent an email to Gailey and the council seeking an explanation.
“If I go back to 15-year-old high school Casey in the closet, and I see that my elected officials won’t even talk about this, that’s like hardcore rejection,” Strom said.
As mentioned in the proclamation Gailey originally signed, LGBTQ+ youth are four times as likely to attempt suicide and experience higher rates of violence, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A 2020 UCLA study found that sexual minority adults are twice as likely to experience homelessness.
Council member Kim Daughtry was the only city official to respond to Strom’s email, records obtained by The Herald show. He refused to answer Strom’s questions over email, citing “trust issues.”
“I have found over the years that I have a hard time conveying my thoughts in the written word and then they get used to attack me,” Daughtry wrote.
Daughtry declined comment.
Lake Stevens resident James Harmon also emailed the council, and submitted a letter to the editor published in the Herald on June 20. He said his email went unanswered.
“This is an ongoing trend among the mayor and city council,” Harmon said. “They don’t care or listen to the community, and are more concerned with their own interests … and people who are like them.”
Strom said he and other Lake Stevens Pride organizers received “overwhelming” community support for the family-friendly event held Saturday at Lundeen Park.
Jorstad said the council received at least 20 emails in support of the LGBTQ+ community following last week’s meeting.
“This is a great opportunity to show the community, especially the LGBTQ+ community, that the words and actions of a few aren’t representative of everyone,” she said.

 

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It's funny how these are also the people so obsessed with "dogwhistles", like saying "it's okay to be white" is codeword for "we need to kill all non-white people" and freak out over the OK sign and the number 88. But somehow when they straight up tell you what they want, it doesn't actually mean that.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Even with all the knowledge you have, it's extremely debilitating to be in city centers but LGBT is the cherry on top of the shitty streets. But even if they do support this, they must be so careful not to have one of their construction marking look even vaguely like a swastika when constructing a giant dildo. The alphabet mafia is more unstable than serial killers at this point.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

A few quotes:



This week, I got another email from a different publication, where they now admit that the backlash was bad, but seem to try to give LGBT consumers some of the credit for the boycott.

It makes me wonder how many companies are following the whims of an algorithm/data analysis, etc. while not considering the human factor of things. I wonder if that is why there are a lot of contemporary advertisements and commercials that push for inclusion because the algo says it is a popular subject based off search results. Well that and woke millennials are just now advancing up the corporate ladder to a point where they have power over business decisions.

 

[clipartfan92]

I've been keeping a list of all the Pride Month articles I've posted for the last 30 days. If you've missed some, or just want to look back, here they are.

Spoiler

2023-06-01 ‘Queer ecology’ gifted him new perspective. Take his hikes to find it too (.onion)

2023-06-01 Pentagon cracks down on drag shows at military bases (.onion)

2023-06-01 LGBTQ+ people flock to Florida for Gay Days festival (.onion)

2023-06-02 Parents protesting Pride Day clash with police at L.A. school where trans teacher’s flag was burned (.onion)

2023-06-07 Arrest made in anti-LGBTQ hate crime assault in San Francisco (.onion)

2023-06-07 Families flock to Blue Island drag show. ‘This is what happens when you support your queer child.’ (.onion)

2023-06-08 Los Angeles County D.A.’s office quits Twitter amid flood of anti-LGBTQ+ comments (.onion)

2023-06-09 Blue Jays cut pitcher Anthony Bass after latest anti-LGBTQ+ comments (.onion)

2023-06-09 Backlash prompts Bishop Zubik to cancel Mass planned in solidarity with LGBTQ+ community (.onion)

2023-06-10 Pride is back in Boston as parade returns after quarrel over inclusivity (.onion)

2023-06-12 After WeHo-L.A. split, many expected ‘Pride wars.’ Instead, it’s a fight for survival (.onion)

2023-06-12 Target stores see more bomb threats over Pride merchandise (.onion)

2023-06-13 Often sidelined at Pride, transgender and nonbinary people move front and center (.onion)

2023-06-13 Lower house of Japan's parliament passes bill to promote LGBTQ+ awareness, but not guarantee rights (.onion)

2023-06-14 Bud Light Is No Longer America’s Top-Selling Beer After Boycott (.onion)

2023-06-14 Hamtramck council bans LGBTQ flags from city property after months of intense debate (.onion)

2023-06-14 LGBTQ+ Americans have stronger support than ever — and fiercer backlash (.onion)

2023-06-15 For some LGBTQ+ Catholics, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a drag (.onion)

2023-06-15 Twitter is the worst major social media platform when it comes to LGBTQ+ safety, says GLAAD (.onion)

2023-06-16 WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids under fire for internal memo calling for less LGBTQ Pride coverage (.onion)

2023-06-16 A nun commends Dodgers' handling of Pride Night controversy. Some archbishops call it blasphemy (.onion)

2023-06-17 Religious groups protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence before Dodgers’ Pride Night (.onion)

2023-06-17 London man charged with harassment after online battle over Pride protests (.onion)

2023-06-19 Public temporarily barred from public school board trustee meetings (.onion)

2023-06-19 Pride flags ripped down at Stonewall National Monument: 'It's just disappointing' (.onion)

2023-06-20 Ginger Rogers beach pride lifeguard towers vandalized days after being unveiled (.onion)

2023-06-21 At dueling LGBTQ+ protests outside Glendale school board meeting, violence erupts — again (.onion)

2023-06-22 More than 350 people pack St. Charles library meeting in fight over dress code, LGBTQ issues (.onion)

2023-06-23 Over 150 Starbucks stores face possible strike over LGBTQ+ displays (.onion)

2023-06-24 We Muslims Used to Be the Culture War Scapegoats. Why Are Some of Us Joining the L.G.B.T.Q. Pile-On? (.onion)

2023-06-26 LGBTQ+ Pride Month reaches its grand crescendo on city streets from New York to San Francisco (.onion)

2023-06-27 Power couple Zooey Zephyr and Erin Reed are spreading hope to fellow transgender people (.onion)

2023-06-27 Kamala Harris, at Stonewall, Seeks to Reassure L.G.B.T.Q. Community (.onion)

2023-06-28 Pride, Ukrainian flags burned in Silver Spring ‘hate crimes,’ police say (.onion)

2023-06-29 3 rushed to hospital after gender issues classroom stabbings at University of Waterloo: Report (.onion)

2023-06-29 Police search for suspect who threw firework into crowd at LGBTQ+ event in Hermosa Beach (.onion)

2023-06-29 At his first Pride parade, a ‘recovering bigot’ told people: ‘I am sorry!’ (.onion)

2023-06-29 Atlanta church with Pride flag vandalized again (.onion)

2023-06-29 Gatherings combining Pride and Juneteenth give Black LGBTQ+ people a refuge where they can celebrate (.onion)

2023-06-30 Transgender Influencer Speaks Out After Backlash Against Bud Light (.onion)

If any links are broken, let me know and I'll edit.

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

Oh yeah Muslims dont want any of these.

 

[The Nothingness]

Another reason why some Christian denominations don't allow women to become priests.

 

[Alter Ego]

Certainly worth noting on the final day that the Supreme Court kicked "bake the cake, bigot" to the curb (onion).

Overall, to much surprise, I think this has been a relatively pleasant Pride Month.

 

[Varretnon847]

I wonder how many people will be supporting next years Pride Month. It felt a bit lower this year compared to last years.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I wonder how many people will be supporting next years Pride Month. It felt a bit lower this year compared to last years.

A bit lower? I have never seen so much less support than this year. 2024 is going to be even more hilarious. I hope in 5-10 years pride month turns into pride week which is still more than the rainbow monsters deserve.

 

[Point 707]

 

[The Nothingness]

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The aptly named DeviantArt: "Lol, nope!"

 

[Chuck 'n Geck]

A bit lower? I have never seen so much less support than this year. 2024 is going to be even more hilarious. I hope in 5-10 years pride month turns into pride week which is still more than the rainbow monsters deserve.

Moreso when it used to be just Gay Pride Day, which then spiraled out of control.