three reasons why I'm not attending the local PRIDE activities

1. I don't like crowds
2. I can't stand parades of any sort
3. It's hot as fuck this time of year

Anywho, if any of the rest of you are involved in these in your city, party on I guess. If you are protesting against it, be ready for people to point & laugh at your ass. BTW when did they change it from "gay pride" to just pride?
I'm sure it doesn't take a genius to figure out what it's all about after about 30 seconds.

http://wjbf.com/2017/06/24/augusta-pride-kicks-off-eighth-annual-celebration/

Otherwise you're gay.

what, if you don't protest it?

In general the reason I don't participate in these events is that I learned years ago not to go NEAR DC when these things are going on. Too crowded, hot, and noisy. When I first came here I did things like the Cherry Blossom festival, the 4th of July, Taste of DC, and like that. Got caught in a big pro-life or pro-choice demonstration by accident once because I forgot which weekend it was on.

And even bigger, Reagan's state funeral or the last two times the Pope has been here.

Haven't been to pride in a long time. Why does it always gotta be when it's hot as fuck?!?

I think because in some of the US people have what is called "summer fun." Granted I haven't lived anywhere for many years that actually looked forward to the summer.
Here in Georgia it's a time of dread at least to my old yankee ass. Some of these locals bass fish all day with the sun reflecting off that hot water and it doesn't phase them.
Or worse the ones who are into fitness running hard in the middle of the day! Granted I did that when I was still in the army but it kicked my ass. Now I do my hard outdoor exercise in the early morning this time of year.

Bottom line my philosophy is if I'm sweating, I'm not having fun.

Sodomy is wickedness.

Wicked fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

That's not what your wife said.

The first time I went to a Pride Parade, I got sunburned.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wish this were Facebook so I could give you the Pride rep.

And you are boring as Dayton going fishing in a swimming pool.

I can totally agree with the hot thing. I am from ny originally, and the sun is about three feet above your head here in Florida. On top of that it is humid. If you are going to have a sexual celebration do it during the cold months when you want someone sweating with you in bed because you can use the heat. Unless it is Jack frost I don't want him in my bed. However, if jack happens to be free for pride I am up for some snowballs.

Because there was a time when summers weren't this fucking hot. It was warm but not so incredibly hot that you felt your skin burn within seconds of being outside.

Climate change.

Thank your congresscritters for ignoring the signs for the last five decades.

I'm 55 now. If I live to be 85 (very possible) I will be one of those old codgers saying "I remember when I lived in northern Wisconsin we didn't need any air conditioning. And the lakes were frozen solid from late November to mid April - not mid December to late March!"

I'm not blaming or thanking anyone. Man made or natural, it is indeed getting progressively hotter in every single place I have ever lived, no matter what the cause. But we as a species have survived the ice age, so we can figure out a way to handle things getting hotter....then colder...then hotter...then colder......etc.etc. until we are extinct like every other species.

You're not going to make it to 85.

Someone is going to finally to hit their limit with your brand of and you.

statistically and realistically unless I meet a violent death I will very likely make it to 85. I have an almost zero chance of a heart attack and combined with low resting heart rate, low cholesterol,
low blood pressure, high muscle-to-fat ratio, etc.etc. I couldn't possibly get any healthier.

What's your address?

I have this cool new chainsaw I want to show you.

Maybe you don't enjoy watching HIV-ridden homosexual men gyrate around in g-strings. These things are just giant public orgies. You know how many used condoms sanitation workers have to clean up after one of these sodomy celebrations?

Why does "gay pride" have to represented by this kind of embarrassing display? Funny how gays always talk about how their homo-ism isn't just about sexual attraction, yet the only thing they know how to do is showcase the most sickening sex orgy crap during these parades.

How many times have you been to pride? It's been a while, but I've been to quite a few. They were most definitely not "just giant public orgies".

I mean, not at all. it's usually very family-friendly.

Oh please, there's nothing about gay pride that's "family friendly." And the pictures are the proof. Sorry, but the photographic evidence is out there. Fags in g-strings prancing around, looking for port-a-potties to hook up in.

Don't try to deny the debauchery. And my earlier point still stands. Why is this the image the gays always project in these parades, that of sex-crazed fiends just waiting for the perfect opportunity to snatch some kid to sodomize?

The horror. The horror.

Mmm hmmm.....one cherry-picked photo that doesn't happen to feature virtually naked men gyrating lasciviously. Problem is, there's a billion other photos on Google.

We have a Pride parade going on near here, and I would love to go, not just to support the LGBTQIA community, but also to meet new people, make friends, have fun. Live a little.

You seem to really think a lot about nearly naked gay men gyrating.