[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

“We thought we would celebrate Pride month so those children from LGBT families would feel included

The best way to make people feel included? Include them. Parades aren't necessary for that.

Originally Posted by glibberglobber

I didnt know about LGBTQ until i started Secondary school. This is apalling

It's LGBT. Only weirdo activists use the word "Queer".

Originally Posted by Brillopad

The guy wearing the tee shirt with gay fu**ing pride plastered all over it doesn’t make it seem very age appropriate. The whole thing is being shoved down parents’ and childrens’ throats too soon so hardly any surprise people react the way they do. Usual pushy left.

That picture is obviously just for illustrative purposes, no way would he be included in the school's parade wearing that. The school seems to have had the best intentions, from the article is seems like the event was to be "self pride" first, with LGBT issues being tied into it, rather than the focus.

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Only weirdo activists use the word "Queer"

Thankfully people like you are in the minority on that one

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by MB.

Thankfully people like you are in the minority on that one

lol do you identify as "queer"?

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

lol do you identify as "queer"?

Whether I do or not has no bearing on the fact that it's now a widely-used term within the LGBT umbrella, be it academia, popular culture (Queer Eye says hello) or otherwise, and anyone who doesn't think so is still living in the Thatcher era

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by MB.

Whether I do or not has no bearing on the fact that it's now a widely-used term within the LGBT umbrella, be it academia, popular culture (Queer Eye says hello) or otherwise, and anyone who doesn't think so is still living in the Thatcher era

Yup, there's Queer Theory in "academia". But people who think they're queer are still homosexual, bisexual, or trans. Being "queer" doesn't actually set them apart, they're still lacking the same rights and face the same struggles as LGBT people who don't identify as the Q, and it's those things that should be focussed on rather than expanding the term.

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Yup, there's Queer Theory in "academia". But people who think they're queer are still homosexual, bisexual, or trans. Being "queer" doesn't actually set them apart, they're still lacking the same rights and face the same struggles as LGBT people who don't identify as the Q, and it's those things that should be focussed on rather than expanding the term.

That isn’t what queer theory means at all lol. Actually it basically means the opposite. I think you found a paper one time that said it may not exist, and criticised queer theory and you jumped a few conclusions.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Withano

That isn’t what queer theory means at all lol. Actually it basically means the opposite. I think you found a paper one time that said it may not exist, and criticised queer theory and you jumped a few conclusions.

If you re-read my post, you'll see I didn't comment on what Queer Theory means, I just said that it exists. My point was that there's no point adding Q to LGBT, as "queer" people don't face any additional struggles.