re: #159 Patricia Kayden

How is recognizing June as the month of PRIDE proselytizing? It’s no different than recognizing March as Black history month.

AND: there are a non-trivial number of wingnuts who get seriously bent-out-of-shape over Black History Month, too: especially if it veers away from the blandest sort of “Great Accomplishment” thumbsucking, and, you know, actually examines actual American attitudes towards Black folks….

But Pride Month has to do with TEH GHEY!!11!!1!, which still pushes a lot of peoples’ buttons. We can (rightly) mock the wingers gibbering away about “proselytizing Oreos” or whatever, but sex/sexual identity stuff still hits uncomfortably home for too many.
Especially when they just have to throw GOD!!!! into it…..