The 2023 LGBT Pride Month Discussion Thread

[Galactic Powers]

Everyone kind of misses the point with the "oh, it's so commercialized" arguments.

Once your group is marketable, you know you've made progress in acceptance.

[Thermodolia]

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

It’s only a sin if you believe it is. Otherwise it’s not.

Also summer has been going on since beginning of May, at least in my area

[Femcia]

Happy pride month everyone!
I hope you stay safe and take care of all of your friends. I wish the best for you and I hope you will be happy this month. I myself getting better recently. Hope you are too.

Have a good day y'all!

[Gaybeans]

Your friendly neighbourhood dyke is here, queer and going nowhere.

Fuck rainbow capitalism, the first pride was a riot and we need that brick throwin' energy for 2023

[Dalavi]

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

sin month or mental illness month depends on which anti-lgbtq you ask

[Shudana]

The idea is disingenuous and mostly used by corporate entities to milk the idea for as much cash as they can get from it. Its corrupt, and consumeristic

I agree.

[Kenmoria]

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

The modern definition of “pride”, in the context of the month, doesn’t correlate well with the “ὑπερηφάνοις” condemned in James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5. ὑπερηφάνοις, translated literally, is to put oneself above others. I feel as though a better modern translation is “self-important” or “egotistic”. The definition that modern English uses for “pride” in such senses as “Alice and Bob are proud of their children”, and “Charlie is proud to be a Christian” is simply the result of semantic drift.

Your friendly neighbourhood dyke is here, queer and going nowhere.

Fuck rainbow capitalism, the first pride was a riot and we need that brick throwin' energy for 2023

I feel as though there is not a mutually exclusive choice between “capitalist” and “not throwing bricks”. Options are available between the two extremes, though it isn’t even that. It more forms a punnet square. One can be capitalist and throw bricks, anticapitalist and throw bricks, capitalist and not throw bricks, or anticapitalist and not throw bricks. I will be enjoying my democratic socialism with some tea and scones, and anything that I do for Pride will be trying to create more of a friendly atmosphere than a hostile one.

[Christian Confederation]

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

sin month or mental illness month depends on which anti-lgbtq you ask

Both but I was in a good mood and didn't want to be too conservative.

[Cappedore]

sin month or mental illness month depends on which anti-lgbtq you ask

Both but I was in a good mood and didn't want to be too conservative.

Not very moderate of you...

[Democratic Poopland]

Your friendly neighbourhood dyke is here, queer and going nowhere.

Fuck rainbow capitalism, the first pride was a riot and we need that brick throwin' energy for 2023

Absolutely! Let's go and do what we do best as NationStates players; riot!

/joke, IT'S A JOKE.

[The Greater sussian reich]

i have a gay friend but i just friendzone him

Bold of you to assume he’s interested

i've ratted my way into a few of his chats
and i can say that with at least a 90% certainty

[Torrocca]

Woo, the month of the queers is back on the menu, baybee!

The folks calling it sin are gonna be shocked when God slaps 'em outside the pearly gates for doing the much greater actual sin of not loving everyone as was ordained :­)

[Rusozak]

another thing i just don't care about

And yet you're here.

[Cook-Out]

NSG's resident bisexual anarchist reporting for duty. I'd like to be on the following committees: fash-bashing, kink-validating, and putting rainbow scarves on doggos. Also, I found this picture of a couple who got the thin blue line tattoo in the shape of Mickey Mouse, and I need some of you to come on a road trip with me to find DeSantis and show it to him, as the paradoxical contradiction of bootlicking alongside the Dark Mouse of Wokeness will induce such cognitive dissonance that his brain will explode.

What even is this post

[Ifreann]

I hear if you don't fly a rainbow flag during Pride Month then the LGBTs come after you during Wrath Month. Your only hope is staying ahead of them until Sloth Month.

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

PRIDE MONTH

Wake up, sheeple!

[The Crimson Isles]

I could care less tbh, I got my own shit to worry about like how the fuck I'm gonna survive in today's economy

[The Southwest Islands]

The thing that I don't like about it is that a group of people (a minority I should add, not being anti-minority, but I will explain in the next few sentences) that some if not most people consider as sinners get an entire month, and look at everyone else. Veterans get 2 days (3 if you count July 4th). The Irish get one day. Workers get one day. Parents get 2 days (one for moms, one for dads). The presidents get 1 day (2 if you count July 4th). Christians get 2 days (4 if you count St. Patricks Day and St. Valentines Day). Mexicans get 1 day, and the list keeps going. I'm okay if you give them a day, but a WHOLE MONTH. Chill bro, yes they are a minority, but they made a choice on being gay. The only groups that have a whole month are racial minorities (Blacks, Native Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, etc.) who didn't make the choice to be in that minority group. Last time I checked, LGBT is not a race, it is a choice that people make that some (including me) consider a sin. A day to celebrate sin is already enough (I'm from Louisiana, so Mardi Gras is a prime example), but a whole month! 8% of your calendar is dedicated to homosexuals. Let that sink in. Don't start saying that I'm homophobic, I am neither fearful or hateful of the people themselves, but I don't like the choice that they made. If we are going to start making months about people who made a bad choice, we should make May dropout month, January alcoholics month, and February r@pe month.

[The Southwest Islands]

I hear if you don't fly a rainbow flag during Pride Month then the LGBTs come after you during Wrath Month. Your only hope is staying ahead of them until Sloth Month.

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

PRIDE MONTH

Wake up, sheeple!

Also, people like you are the reason why I'm not a Christian. I agree with Christian morals, but I am not Christian myself.

[The Southwest Islands]

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

It’s only a sin if you believe it is. Otherwise it’s not.

Also summer has been going on since beginning of May, at least in my area

A. Last time I checked, murder, r@pe, theft, etc. are still not only crimes but sins no matter if you think it is wrong or right.

B. I'm in Louisiana, so summer started about mid April.

[The Crimson Isles]

I hear if you don't fly a rainbow flag during Pride Month then the LGBTs come after you during Wrath Month. Your only hope is staying ahead of them until Sloth Month.

PRIDE MONTH

Wake up, sheeple!

Also, people like you are the reason why I'm not a Christian. I agree with Christian morals, but I am not Christian myself.

I think it was sarcasm... hopefully

[Ifreann]

I hear if you don't fly a rainbow flag during Pride Month then the LGBTs come after you during Wrath Month. Your only hope is staying ahead of them until Sloth Month.

PRIDE MONTH

Wake up, sheeple!

Also, people like you are the reason why I'm not a Christian. I agree with Christian morals, but I am not Christian myself.

Damn, hope the Pope doesn't hear about this.

[Necroghastia]

It’s only a sin if you believe it is. Otherwise it’s not.

Also summer has been going on since beginning of May, at least in my area

A. Last time I checked, murder, r@pe, theft, etc. are still not only crimes but sins no matter if you think it is wrong or right.

B. I'm in Louisiana, so summer started about mid April.

Well, no. Whether those are sins or not is wholly dependent on whether you believe in such a thing as "sin" to begin with.

[Dominorvia]

I don't care for and condemn Sin Month. Otherwise hope everyone has a good month of June and a great first full month of Summer.

[Cappedore]

The thing that I don't like about it is that a group of people (a minority I should add, not being anti-minority, but I will explain in the next few sentences) that some if not most people consider as sinners get an entire month, and look at everyone else. Veterans get 2 days (3 if you count July 4th). The Irish get one day. Workers get one day. Parents get 2 days (one for moms, one for dads). The presidents get 1 day (2 if you count July 4th). Christians get 2 days (4 if you count St. Patricks Day and St. Valentines Day). Mexicans get 1 day, and the list keeps going. I'm okay if you give them a day, but a WHOLE MONTH. Chill bro, yes they are a minority, but they made a choice on being gay. The only groups that have a whole month are racial minorities (Blacks, Native Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, etc.) who didn't make the choice to be in that minority group. Last time I checked, LGBT is not a race, it is a choice that people make that some (including me) consider a sin. A day to celebrate sin is already enough (I'm from Louisiana, so Mardi Gras is a prime example), but a whole month! 8% of your calendar is dedicated to homosexuals. Let that sink in. Don't start saying that I'm homophobic, I am neither fearful or hateful of the people themselves, but I don't like the choice that they made.

"I'm not homophobic. I don't fear or hate homosexuality. I just dislike it!" Is pretty much what you've just said. So pretty much, yes, you are homophobic; that is blatantly obvious.

Also, not true. A lot of national holidays wouldn't exist without Christianity; Easter holidays, Christmas holidays, you add all of those up and you have well over a month.

The "what about our Veterans" argument is so bogus. Why do you need to remember veterans and those who have died in wars on a singular day? You should be remembering those who have thought for the freedom of all people pretty much all the time, not within the space of a month, or a few days. Besides, there literally is a veteran's month. It's May, and in a lot of places November is also celebrated for veterans for the entire month and not just Armistice Day

Being gay is not a choice. If it was a choice, then it would be easier for me to choose to be straight, but I can't, because choosing to be straight would be going against my body's natural instinct and I would be incredibly uncomfortable pretending to be straight. It's unnatural for a gay person to try and be straight in the same respect that it's unnatural for a straight person to try and be gay.

It's fine if you consider it a sin, great. But it's that way of thinking that causes things like Pride Month to happen in the first place; because of people who call it "sinful" and who actively campaign against homosexuality because they're hellbent on ruining the lives of others. If you didn't want Pride Month to happen, then best you start being a little bit more accepting of homosexuality as a whole.

[Necroghastia]

The thing that I don't like about it is that a group of people (a minority I should add, not being anti-minority, but I will explain in the next few sentences) that some if not most people consider as sinners get an entire month, and look at everyone else. Veterans get 2 days (3 if you count July 4th). The Irish get one day. Workers get one day. Parents get 2 days (one for moms, one for dads). The presidents get 1 day (2 if you count July 4th). Christians get 2 days (4 if you count St. Patricks Day and St. Valentines Day). Mexicans get 1 day, and the list keeps going. I'm okay if you give them a day, but a WHOLE MONTH.

Sounds like you just don't understand the difference between a holiday and an observance, my guy.
Also, pick a day. Any day. You can probably find some saint's feast day or something. There's way more holidays in the world than you give credit for.

Chill bro, yes they are a minority, but they made a choice on being gay. The only groups that have a whole month are racial minorities (Blacks, Native Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, etc.) who didn't make the choice to be in that minority group. Last time I checked, LGBT is not a race, it is a choice that people make that some (including me) consider a sin.

It's not a choice lmfao

A day to celebrate sin is already enough (I'm from Louisiana, so Mardi Gras is a prime example), but a whole month! 8% of your calendar is dedicated to homosexuals. Let that sink in. Don't start saying that I'm homophobic, I am neither fearful or hateful of the people themselves, but I don't like the choice that they made. If we are going to start making months about people who made a bad choice, we should make May dropout month, January alcoholics month, and February r@pe month.

Shit, even if it WAS a choice, what makes it a "bad" one? Especially on the level of fucking rape? Jesus, and you have the gall to claim you don't fear or hate LGBT people...