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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

What is actually achieved by parading the kinks in public? It certainly doesn't normalise same-sex relationships.

Why is someone's sexual kink a deciding factor on whether their relationship is normal or not?

I think there needs to be consideration that LGBT peoples relationship with their own sexual activity is a complex and complicated one, hence the public promotion of it during Pride.

Sex, and as a result kinks, have played a part in Pride events historically because our entire sexual activity was outlawed. Promoting a part of gay sexual culture such as kinks was originally as a protest to the fact that it was illegal for gay people to have sex - of any kind, kink or not.

Kinks are, for many gay people, a part of gay culture and so at an event celebrating gay culture, in it's many, many facets, it stands to reason these are represented.

We are normal, in the sense we are just the same on an individual level as anyone else, but that's not to say that there are aspects of the culture of LGBT people that aren't different to societal norms.

Pride is not about showing the gay community in their most heteronormative state, just so society see us as what they deem to be "normal".