this is kinda urgent, thank you
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Why not?

No one "gets a month". It's just an awareness campaign that's wrapped around a whole month to benefit the cause as much as possible.

Who cares, let people have fun as long as it doesn't harm anyone else.

Maybe it's not a contest. Vets need more respect from their government, not just any month or whatever. And since Pride Month is nothing official in any capacity anyway, what does one have to do with the other?

Oddly enough, that bundle does in fact include one Steam game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/609760/The_Eagles_Heir/
Though it's still just reading.

Interesting viewpoint.

While I don't completely agree with it, I do see where you're coming from and why you've reached this conclusion.

Personally, to me, criticizing LGBTQ+ initiatives is never homophobia. If that criticism turns into hate however, then there's a problem. You've described jealousy here, but I personally doubt that most people actually want that spotlight on themselves, but rather they don't want that spotlight there at all. To a certain extent I don't think it helps at all in western countries. All it does it make the LGBT crowd say "Oh, okay, it's that month again rainbow emoji/gif/picture", which doesn't help anything. But it does also fuel hatred and since the hate is in the minority, it'll fuel that subgroup of people. And in the end, all that happens is that there's another person who gets annoyed by the needless spotlight while also being diagnosed/hated on for throwing some actual criticism out, which, odds are, will spawn another person that doesn't want to support the cause.

I genuinely believe that the LGBTQ+ crowd needs to stop patting themselves on the back and instead rally themselves to support others. Take for example a person that you know from work or school. Now imagine if he every couple of weeks just flips a switch and basically just starts congratulating himself and his family for being amazing and happy and who expects others to support him too. Once, twice, even three or four times it's totally fine. People need to take a moment and appreciate themselves to boost their self-confidence. But you start losing that praise over time. People get bored, annoyed and overall it feels tedious at some point. Now, if that kid went around and instead started helping others during that time, he'd start getting a new reputation, a reputation where he is known as a genuinely awesome person who's selfless and nice.
That's my take on it at least. I'm not trying to claim that there's no reason to have these "Pride events" and so on. Just saying that if this is truly created for public awareness, then nothing drives neutral parties away more than self-congratulatory tactics.

It's a loop! Get out! Or don't, I could use more giveaways :P

<3 !

It's pretty big in Chicago. I went there once and it was a memorable weekend!
I wish I was in Toronto for Pride weekend. They always have great concerts and events at bars.

Paris is not that fun for Pride, tbh. It's ok but it's nothing special.

well good luck to them. And I bet they think the Gay Pride is just for LGBTQ+ people to "feel special"... and their response is to show how desperate they are for attention themselves...? lol