Like The Thing About The Pride Discourse (sorry) Is That While I Do Think There Should Be Space For Kink

Like the thing about the Pride discourse (sorry) is that while I do think there should be space for kink at Pride and that the degree that explicit content at Pride is even A Thing is vastly exaggerated, I can totally see why others might disagree about there being kink at Pride and I have no need with that

but the degree to which people follow on from that by just coming out and saying with their chest that the reason for that is that Pride Should Be For Everyone, Pride Is No Longer Political, We Should Prove We're ~Normal~Not Deviant, Pride Was A Riot But Now It's A Party is like. this is what I actually have a problem with. shut up we don't live in a post-queerphobic society there are massive attacks on trans rights Right Now if Pride isn't a protest then it's letting ourselves be sold as a commodity when we should be standing up for our rights and the rights of our brothers and sisters and siblings who are currently being targeted by police by lawmakers by media by violent hate. this isn't about knowing your history this isn't 'the first Pride was a riot' Pride WAS and IS a protest. if you think kink specifically is a problem then I'm down to hear you out, I believe in building accessible movements, but if your problem is mainstream unacceptability then Yeah Dude It's A Fucking Protest.