I think it's a very sensitive topic, my philosophy is, respect everyone for what they are, regardless. No need to celebrate anything, do whatever you want and let everyone else do whatever they want. That being said, we should do whatever we can to remove the systemic and social issues that attack these minorities, not just in the case of LGBTQIA+ but every minority.
We should not need to celebrate being black, indian, chinese or whatever... but we should make sure their rights are not violated, and we should respect and aknowledge everyone regardless...
If celebrating it is the way to visibilize and help fix the issue for now, then I see no problem.
What I mean by "We should not need to celebrate" is that in an ideal society we should get to a point, where being gay, trans, black, or whatever, is normal, and the strange thing was judging people for being different. That's were I want the world to go. A place where it does not matter what, who, or how you are, you're treated as a human, with respect, and that labels are only used for communicating, not for anything else.
PD: I'm not part of the LGBTQIA+ community, or any other minority, so I can't talk from experience (I'm a white heterosexual male, living in europe...). I'm all about fixing this issues BTW and I love the work being done by the DEV team and everyone else involved in this movement, I'm not discrediting it what so ever. Just wanted to add my point of view.
I think it's a very sensitive topic, my philosophy is, respect everyone for what they are, regardless. No need to celebrate anything, do whatever you want and let everyone else do whatever they want. That being said, we should do whatever we can to remove the systemic and social issues that attack these minorities, not just in the case of LGBTQIA+ but every minority.
We should not need to celebrate being black, indian, chinese or whatever... but we should make sure their rights are not violated, and we should respect and aknowledge everyone regardless...
If celebrating it is the way to visibilize and help fix the issue for now, then I see no problem.
What I mean by "We should not need to celebrate" is that in an ideal society we should get to a point, where being gay, trans, black, or whatever, is normal, and the strange thing was judging people for being different. That's were I want the world to go. A place where it does not matter what, who, or how you are, you're treated as a human, with respect, and that labels are only used for communicating, not for anything else.
PD: I'm not part of the LGBTQIA+ community, or any other minority, so I can't talk from experience (I'm a white heterosexual male, living in europe...). I'm all about fixing this issues BTW and I love the work being done by the DEV team and everyone else involved in this movement, I'm not discrediting it what so ever. Just wanted to add my point of view.
Yea I guess the point of pride is to not need pride.