Happy Pride Month! Instead of just buying stuff, go get involved!

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Happy Pride Month! Instead of just buying stuff, go get involved! | Boing Boing

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[anon73430903]

From last year and about Britain, but even more valid today

@anon73430903

The Guardian are at it again

Stonewall is at centre of a toxic debate on trans rights and gender identity | Transgender | The Guardian

(This is about Stonewall the activism group, not the riots)

There is a campaign to erase trans people from Pride in the UK right now, downplaying the Cooper Do-nuts riot and the Compton’s Cafeteria riot and trans involvement at Stonewall. The hypocrites who are only about LGB (and in practice not the B, transphobia and biphobia go hand in hand in the gay community) would still be paying bribes to cops if it wasn’t for trans people.

@anon73430903

When I first saw this I thought it was the same article as the one I linked to in my last comment. It’s not and its worse.

Stonewall risks all it has fought for in accusing those who disagree with it of hate speech | Sonia Sodha | The Guardian

In a time when it seems like every British trans person who hasn’t just transitioned has their own story of experiencing TER hatred, it does no good to tone police us.

But this is more than that. While tone policing trans people and Stonewall, Sonia Sodha uses the language of TERs to dehumanise us. It’s not just her, it seems to be a common statement from the Labour party that they need more “real” people to join the party. Are they having a problem with sockpuppet memberships? No. What they mean is they want more Christian white cis-het people to join. It is not enough to be working class, or from the North of England, both of which apply to me. Labour is heading down the path of National Socialism, and not for the first time (Never forget that Oswald Mosley and Robert Kilroy-Silk were both Labour MPs). When I say we need to get rid of Keir Starmer, it is not me being bitter about Corbyn, he was only the best option that was offered, nothing more. The future of the party depends on it.

And that’s just the left leaning organisations!

Britain is becoming a legitimately fascist country, and it is not my fault. “You made me hit you” is an old classic line from abusive relationships, and it is always bullshit. Trans people were among the first people to be targeted by the Nazis, our history, our research was the first put into the pyres at the Nazi book burnings. I genuinely fear that it will happen again, and because I do not have a national newspaper to print my words everything I have written here will be for nothing.

We need to fight like our lives depend on it, because they literally do!

[Franko]

support local LGBTQ+ groups, if you can. i used to support HRC until i realized that most of the money goes to their upper management and lavish DC-based parties, i mean “fundraisers.”

[anon76551318]

“Let’s Grab Beers Tonight, Queens” ad campaign…somehow manages to be culturally appropriative, tone-deaf, offensive, cringey, and irrelevant, all at the same time.

From the mindset that brought us “Happy Passover” and “Happy Martin Luther King Day.” Any movement, event, theme, etc. that gains public attention is to be milked for revenue by connecting it with a product, however dubious the connection.

Does anyone remember the campaign that may have started this trend? Back in the 60s when civic unrest was peaking and “student revolutionaries” filled the news, Chrysler Motors decided to cash in. In their ads a cute model set off a cartoon cannon and invited everyone to “join The Dodge Rebellion.”

Needless to say, good taste seldom enters the equation…

[anon59592690]

That’s great.

So are you happy to just shop around while the queer and trans folk die?

[anon76551318]

I’m not sure I understand this question. I believe I remarked upon how advertising and the quest for the almighty dollar trivializes important issues and converts real life concerns into cheap slogans and quick profits. By bringing this up, in what way did I support “shopping around while queer and trans folk die”? Is that not the point? Budweiser offers their cringeworthy, tone-deaf, tasteless irrelevant, etc. campaign because right now LGBTQ issues are in the public eye and Budweiser sees an opportunity to cash in on it. The issue itself is irrelevant. Advertisers like this are not supporting a cause, they’re piggybacking on it so the company can look good while they pick up a few more customers.

I don’t see how acknowledging this bullshit mindset can be interpreted as supporting it. Yes, I care if “queer and trans folk die.” But no, I don’t believe Budweiser and their advertising agency gave the matter much thought when they crafted this offensive campaign.

[kev_r]

Please forgive my ignorance here, but what is the controversy over the pride skittles? Why does the LGBTQ community have a problem with them? What is it that is seen as a mis-step?

I fully support Pride and consider myself on the fringe of the LGBTQ community but I don’t get it.

From what I can gather from google it’s because they’re white? As in race-related white?

If that’s the case then I’m sorry, but I think that’s being overly sensitive. White is simply a lack of color, a design choice born in color theory, nothing more. As a graphic designer, I would be proud of the all-white design, it’s elegantly done.

Personally I think it’s an awesome gesture of solidarity. It’s refreshing to see an international brand get behind the cause and use its power to help raise awareness, all in a fun and whimsical way.

Now the bud light one, yeah that’s bad.