Heterosexual Pride Month

"[Heterosexuals] seldom have their voices heard or their sexual practices mentioned".Are you 100% sure about that? 

With all due respect, Nancy, you are proposing a month-long event that would further discriminate against homosexual and LGBTQ people.

Would you expect "the LGBT movement to join [you]" in supporting your prejudiced belief that any form of sexual diversity is an "aberrant", lifestyle option", with "documented detrimental effects" designed specifically to indoctrinate "impressionable young children"?

Heterosexuality is a normative societal standard against which any form of sexual diversity is incorrectly shamed or demonized as religiously or morally-objectionable "deviance".

Heterosexual individuals are simply not persecuted or demonized in this way and to suggest that a group of already widely discriminated against LGBTQ people should be further persecuted in the name of "heterosexual pride" is highly offensive.

Further, such an event would be encouraging the very 'flaunting of bedroom habits in public' that you condemn in others.

Your "sense of outdated modesty" is falsely imagined — and I am saddened to see an event proposed in the "spirit of exclusion" rather than of love, respect, tolerance, compassion for all peoples — regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.

I thought that this post was meant as a joke... was I mistaken?

I agree, if I were not a Flaming Lesbian, cause I love women, I think I will celebrate with two of my closest girlfriends. Giggidty, Giggidty!!

"Heterosexual Pride Month", for me, would be akin to setting up a charity fund for those on the Forbes Top 100 list.

The reason it's not "explicitly" celebrated (even though it is) is because it is IMPLICITLY celebrated in every aspect of life, media, and pop culture, every day, in every manner possible.

If it weren't, there would be no need for Homosexual Pride Month.

That's like asking to establish "Celebrate Human Activity Month" to counter "World Environment Day".

Heterosexual Pride Month cannot exist "in the spirit of equality"--the whole point of homosexual pride month is because there was no equality in the first place. Homosexual pride month is not meant to flaunt homosexuality, but to encourage people to recognize it as simply a different lifestyle that is no less than what we have been socially constructed to consider normal. What you are really asking with your proposition is to have imbalance and inequality between people redressed, to reinforce, once again, socially-constructed norms that encourage the demeaning and revulsing of people who are simply different from you in a way that doesn't affect anyone but themselves.  

Also, I object to your automatic tie between "heterosexual and monogamous".  What, gay people aren't monogamous?  Why uphold Prop 8 then, if marriage, such a traditionally monogamous institution, would never even be considered by them?  And to my recollection, the well-known, deeply traditional and religious communities of Bountiful and Hilldale, for instance, are flagrantly heterosexual and homophobic, yet defined by their polygamous practices which is the foundation of their way of life.

"Happies"?  Are you kidding me?  Is this supposed to subtly trick our subconsciousnesses into believing the heterosexual lifestyle is happier and the homosexual lifestyle is unhappier than average?  Why do they even need a term coined?  What's wrong with simply "heterosexuals"?  In view of this, I would like to propose from now on, "homosexuals" are referred to as "sexually/socially unindoctrinated non-judgementalies".

"Seldom have their voices heard or their sexual practices mentioned." - cf. Tina Kells. As well, they're also implicitly or explicitly mentioned every single time homosexual practices are mentioned, if only in the sense of "That's not what you're SUPPOSED to do, because what WE do is what you're supposed to do!"

"They are loath to flaunt their bedroom habits in public."  Again, casting an unfair and blanket overgeneralization upon a giant group of diverse people.  Not ALL sexually/socially unindoctrinated non-judgementalies do that, just as not all heterosexuals don't.  Have you ever heard of something called a "sex tape"?

"Some even believe that...the government has no right to dictate or influence what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms" - Oh look at that, so do sexually/socially unindoctrinated non-judgementalies. Isn't that how this whole thing got started in the first place?
 
"Some happies go even further...excellent topics for discussion during Heterosexual Pride Month." Some people would call this imposing your religious beliefs on others. And your entire post constitutes thrusting your sexual habit into the faces of those who feel differently.
 
"to emphasize and explore the social compact that traditional marriage used to signify." Isn't the compact one between two people promising to love, care for, and remain committed to each other for life?  People can do that if they're the same sex, as well.  Though come to think of it, maybe this would be particularly fitting for "Heterosexual Pride Month", considering the current rates of heterosexual divorce and shotgun marriages--sweeping heterosexual victories for the sanctity of marriage, indeed.

"Obama has brought tolerance back into vogue" - I didn't realize it had gone out of vogue. So tell me, is anti-racism in fashion yet, or will that trend not hit until next year?

"I recommend using Heterosexual Pride Month as an occasion to voice the legitimate moral objections many Americans (57%) have to gay marriage." - Umm, have you not been following the news or living in this world at all?  Again, as Tina Kells implied, there's no need--people are using EVERY month (and day) as an occasion to voice their objections.

The whole POINT is that heterosexuals don't NEED any "occasion" at all to voice objections--it's already woven into everyday life and norms, as it has ever been.

"Why 98% of happies are automatically labeled homophobic if they dare to comment on what they legitimately consider an aberrant lifestyle." - It's because this "aberrant lifestyle" does not harm you or anyone beyond the person who lives it, thus removing your right to infringe on their right to personal freedoms granted as a human being. Thus, one can conclude that since it doesn't affect your or general well-being of others, the only likely reasons left for your objection and deliberately trying to ruin the life of someone whom you don't know and who hasn't harmed you in any way are: purely religion-based moralities, which are invalid in a state separated from the church, or just plain narrow-mindedness and bigotry, which are invalid in a state allegedly separated from discrimination.

"We could then explore the harmful effects of indoctrinating impressionable young children into the idea that gender and/or sexuality is merely a lifestyle option. Special emphasis could be placed on the documented detrimental effects of the gay lifestyle." - Then, we could explore the harmful effects of such indoctrinary exploration. Special emphasis could be placed on the documented detrimental effects of the bigoted lifestyle on children.

"We could then go on to discuss the physical and mental health implications of gay vs. happy". Gay IS happy. It says so in the Dictionary, which was handed down to me by the Holy Spirit of OED.  How dare you challenge my religious beliefs? 

"Heterosexual Pride Month will necessarily present quite a challenge, as many heterosexual couples these days are so busy working to pay their taxes and raising children that many of them just don't have the time to devote to activism." - Right, because gay people don't work or pay taxes. Never. They just don't.  And the only reason gay people aren't raising children is because heterosexuals won't let them. You can't have it both ways.

Once again, activism is not needed in this area.  That's like lamenting the fact that dogs don't have time to play because they're too busy rolling around in the grass and chasing objects.

"Most happies believe it's not right to force their views of marriage and happiness on others." - As evidenced by this post, you must not be one of them.

"In the spirit of inclusion, I'd like to extend an invitation to the LGBT movement to join us happies in making Heterosexual Pride Month a reality."

Incidentally, also in the spirit of inclusion, I have word that North Korea would like to extend to the United States an invitation to join them in making their nuclear missile program a reality.

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nancyvideo, thank you for this opinion piece. I would appreciate it if you would add the tag 'sexuality' to it so it will also appear on NowPublic Sexuality Special News Coverage channel. Thanks!

Look, if you don't like gay porn, then don't watch gay porn. Simple.

I drive on the freeway, it seems like a heterosexual pride parade for me.

Most of the people at the parades are not trying to force their sexual orientation down anyone's throat. They are celebrating their rights as citizens, which up until recently, have been few and far between. People are celebrating their freedom. The majority of heterosexuals already have those freedoms. In fact, the freedoms that the queer movement has sought add to the protection of rights for heterosexuals too. I can't fire someone for being straight.

If you really want to organize a Heterosexual pride parade, that is fine with me! I'll come and cheer! But you had better have a good reason for celebrating.