When the over-commercialisation of pride makes us think about it as just another festival and not a fight for rights. This is ridiculous and shameful. Surely the parade/protest is the most important part of it!
Manchester Pride
 @ManchesterPride
21 Jul 2021
A statement regarding this year's Manchester Pride Parade. We understand that you may have many questions about this announcement - please get in touch with us via info@manchesterpride.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can. - The Manchester Pride team โค๏ธ
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It's one reason I stopped attending such events.
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It's so sad that it's stopped representing so many of the people it claims to represent. It's fine to have fun and festivals and parties, but we cannot forget that this is a Human rights movement! I'm just baffled
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Replying to @Violetilla
Mostly it's run by the cis white male gays, who have all the rights/etc. that they wanted. Entirely forgetting that it was transwomen of colour who started the whole shebang.

Jul 22, 2021 ยท 9:40 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
Why do we forget so quickly how privileged we are when we were complaining about others being blind to their own privilege?
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Because humans are, as a whole, pretty awful. Individual people can be lovely, but as a race we're pretty bad.
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