Are you Proud of Pride Month?

Harold A Black

May 27, 2024

I was looking at a Cubs game, they were announcing a pride night in Chicago with a pride Cubs jersey giveaway. Oh boy, I bet folks will be lined up for that much like the Dodger fans lined up for the Shohei Ohtani bobblehead. Well the Powers-that-Be has designated June as Pride month – although I don’t know what they are proud about. Anyway, who decides what month is which? Last year we went to a Tampa Rays game and found out it was Pride night. Most but not all of the employees were wearing rainbow stuff. The field was decked out in rainbow colors and it was the most weird collection of fans I had ever seen with various piercings, face paint and colorful attire. I was wondering if these prideful folks only showed up for pride night since I had not seen them at any of  the other games we had attended. Or rather, if they were at those games, why were they not dressed in their prideful attire? Why do they have to make it a point to look so weird? Well we are going to a Tampa Bay game when we make our annual camping trip to Madeira Beach. Saturday night is pride night so we are going to the Friday night game. Of all of the major league baseball teams only the Texas Rangers do not have a pride night. The Rangers are nonapologetic about not hosting the LBGTQ crowd and are refusing to genuflect to the pressure. I salute them.

Remember when calling someone a queer was insulting?

Did you see where the park superintendent in Denali national park in Alaska asked contractors not to fly the American flag but she flies the pride flag? Senator Dan Sullivan vigorously protested but interestingly no word yet from Lisa Murkowski. 

I don’t care if someone is LBGTQ. What I mind is the effort to indoctrinate young children through the drag shows and gay literature in the schools. This is a private matter left out of the public domain.

I mind the overly public displays of kissing, holding hands and flaunting one’s sexuality in public. But I am equally offended by heterosexual displays.

Is there a straight pride month?

Somehow we have gotten to the point where people get fired for resisting the LBGTQ mantra. The left has demanded tolerance – except to the Jews – so keep your criticism to yourself. Federal, state and local governments fly the pride flag during pride month. Biden even hosts a group at the White House and flys the flag. Hopefully, this year a trans person won’t expose his artificial breasts.  I am certain that with its leftist leaders the city of Knoxville will fly pride colors but I doubt if the county or the state will do so. My feeling is that if you want to fly the pride flag then why don’t you fly the flag for whose ever month it is? For example, June is also African-American Music Appreciation Month, Caribbean-American Heritage Month and National Safety Month. If you are going to fly the pride flag, then make room on the flagpole for the other three.

I wonder what the African American Music Appreciation flag looks like?