Heterosexual Pride Month

The majority feel they that are getting pushy when they assert their values. It puts us in a strange place.

A high school I taught at, for example, had a Latino club and an African-American club. The high school was very diverse and then the white kids wanted a "European Culture" club.

They picked an outstanding black man as their sponsor who was an authority on European culture and history, music, as well.

"[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Your "sense of outdated modesty" is falsely imagined — and I am saddened to see an event proposed in the "spirit of exclusion" rather than of love, respect, tolerance, compassion for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 disagree that the heterosexual norm is stuffed down our throats. A particular version of heterosexuality is shoved down our throats, but, Tina, I know that you know that fashion magazines, fashion itself- these areas are actually governed by gay men. Name the one or two great heterosexual designers that you can. The rest are gay.

So, gay men actually determine what heterosexuals should look like and what they should wear.Anyway, of course heterosexuality gets more play. It is how the species evolved and will survive.

And take a further look at the numbers. A very small percentage of men are gay, and an even smaller percentage are transsexuals. Just how much time should the subject get?

So I do agree that we don't need a month because popular culture does what popular culture always does: promote what is popular. That is what the vast majority of us have as identities.

Some feel that homosexual politics does the opposite, i.e., shove approval of homosexuality down their throats, as if there were no dark side to homosexual behavior or the numbers were constant and not influenced by cultural norms and practices, which is exactly why there is a discussion of homosexuality- for those for whom the behavior is an option, and not an inborn determinant.

In fact, in the early '70s, the totally heterosexual man was "out" and the bisexual man was in for a certain group of the most de rigeur women in more liberal areas.

Try looking up the word nuance. You need to learn to understand that word operationally. I have a history of my life that demonstrates just how unhomophobic I have been, right down to having gay training partners in the gym I frequented in San Francisco and an extensive social life that included people of all races and sexual orientation.

Why don't you take your post off this thread? This is Free Speech in motion here, not a fan club for a particular position, which has to be automatically correct, and outside of the range of any questioning or analysis at all.

Really, you are the bigot here, but you do know how to count, but not how to make yourself counted. :)

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.

So silly someone said "I have gay friends" gives one a clue?  How about the clue that it means they love them...they are not freaks etc as the renegades want to claim heterosexuals think as they march and push for more and more attention.  This kind hurt the decent people who live their lives and  don't try to make it a world critical issue when we are dealing with really scary  manaical people with weapons.  They have every right to the pursuit of their  happiness and need to learn from the other minorities who do it in a more dignified way without hammer,hammering us with this .  God have mercy.  Let's fight for more important issues like elder  care and child safety.  Perez Hilton kind need to get therapy and shut up for they  do not come close to representing my gay friends of which some are far from happy even thos they do get what they think they  want.  They are like everybody else who is not in touch with their true self.  Searching. 

"OH, WHEN I GET THIS THEN I WILL BE HAPPY...I AM ENTITLED TO THIS........SADLY WHEN THEY STOP THAT ACTING OUT OF THE  DRAMA THEY CRASH..WE DON'T Hear ABOUT THAT..WE JUST HEAR EVERYTHING THEY WANT US TO HEAR.   Someone always will have something we think we are entitled to and that if only. ....if only...when this happens then we can be happy....... an illusion it's bullshit.

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.