Pride and Prejudice

Patriot Retort: I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Pride month is being hijacked by the hateful cranks of the Democrat Party Resistance.

The Democrats warned us they planned on making this a Summer of Rage.

And since they’re too lazy to create their own marches, they just glom on to someone else’s.

You know. Like they did the “People’s March for the Climate.”

Let’s face it, it is standard operating procedure for Democrats to coopt different identity groups and movements then exploit them for their own political purposes.

Just ask blacks in America.

Democrats have glommed on to gays like they’re a new fashion accessory.

And the fact that Pride month has become nothing more than an excuse to froth at the mouth over Donald Trump being President is kind of pathetic.

This may come as a surprise to you, but I happen to know a bit about Pride month.

When I attended the MFA Playwriting program at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, my thesis play “PRISM” was about the emergence of the Gay Rights Movement.

There were two separate storylines. One that began in the 1950s and led up to the June 1968 Stonewall riot. And another that began in 1979 and went back to the June 1968 Stonewall riot.

The two storylines converge at Stonewall at the time when the main characters from the two storylines first meet.

It was kind of a clever structure, if I say so myself.

“PRISM” premiered at Chicago’s Bailiwick Theater as part of their 2001 Pride Series.

And in researching “PRISM,” I read countless books on the early Mattachine society, the Stonewall riot, and the post-Stonewall Gay Rights movement.

So why I am pointing all this out?

Well, I figure some may say, “How dare you! You’re not part of the LGBTMOUSE community. So what do you know about our Pride month?!”

I thought I’d head that off at the pass.

And though Pride occasionally became somewhat political in the past – most notably during the AIDS epidemic of the mid-1980s – the Gay Pride movement was far more Libertarian than it is today.

Today it’s about as Libertarian as Maxine Waters.

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