When this was brought up yesterday it was all going to be fun and fine
>A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: “Pride was born from protest. It speaks to how far we’ve come as a community, that high polluting industries and the banks that fund them, now see Pride as a useful vehicle for sanitising their reputations, waving rainbow flags in one hand whilst accelerating social collapse with the other. It is queer people, and particularly queer people of colour in the global south, who are suffering first in this accelerating social breakdown.
>“What would those who instigated the gay liberation movement, during the Stonewall riots in 1969, make of the corporatised spectacle Pride has now become?”
>“These partnerships embarrass the LGBTQ+ community, at a time when much of the cultural world is rejecting ties to these toxic industries.
>“We call on Pride to remember the spirit in which it was founded and to respect the memory of all those who fought and died to secure the rights we now possess, whilst taking the necessary steps to protect our community long into the future.”
Quite.
A lot of LGBT people are already grumpy at rainbow capitalism; how Pride seems to be more for corporations than LGBT people, and how many corporations will use the rainbow for their own agenda only now that it’s helpful to them, potentially even to LGBT’s detriment. (There are exceptions of course – e.g. Wickes actually *has* stuck its neck out in support of trans people at a time that that’s controversial).
That grumpiness hasn’t come to a head, but it has been bubbling away for years, the cracks slowly widening.
Just Stop Oil is, in my opinion, taking a smart approach to tap into this. Maybe they’ll succeed, maybe they won’t, but there is a Pride controversy under the surface just waiting for someone to light the match.
Road cleared and 7 arrested in 15 mins, interesting huh.
put your wooly hat away Callum, that posh girl with the dreadlocks is not *ever* going to sleep with you, no matter how much nuisance you cause soft targets
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When this was brought up yesterday it was all going to be fun and fine
>A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: “Pride was born from protest. It speaks to how far we’ve come as a community, that high polluting industries and the banks that fund them, now see Pride as a useful vehicle for sanitising their reputations, waving rainbow flags in one hand whilst accelerating social collapse with the other. It is queer people, and particularly queer people of colour in the global south, who are suffering first in this accelerating social breakdown.
>“What would those who instigated the gay liberation movement, during the Stonewall riots in 1969, make of the corporatised spectacle Pride has now become?”
>“These partnerships embarrass the LGBTQ+ community, at a time when much of the cultural world is rejecting ties to these toxic industries.
>“We call on Pride to remember the spirit in which it was founded and to respect the memory of all those who fought and died to secure the rights we now possess, whilst taking the necessary steps to protect our community long into the future.”
Quite.
A lot of LGBT people are already grumpy at rainbow capitalism; how Pride seems to be more for corporations than LGBT people, and how many corporations will use the rainbow for their own agenda only now that it’s helpful to them, potentially even to LGBT’s detriment. (There are exceptions of course – e.g. Wickes actually *has* stuck its neck out in support of trans people at a time that that’s controversial).
That grumpiness hasn’t come to a head, but it has been bubbling away for years, the cracks slowly widening.
Just Stop Oil is, in my opinion, taking a smart approach to tap into this. Maybe they’ll succeed, maybe they won’t, but there is a Pride controversy under the surface just waiting for someone to light the match.
Road cleared and 7 arrested in 15 mins, interesting huh.
put your wooly hat away Callum, that posh girl with the dreadlocks is not *ever* going to sleep with you, no matter how much nuisance you cause soft targets