Hubris Month

LGBTQ activists at New York City’s annual drag queen parade chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children,” in Manhattan on Friday.

I had a hard time believing this actually happened. But YouTube has video. And sure enough that is what these marchers are chanting.

I am a tolerant man. I really don’t much care what consenting adults do in private as long as they don’t frighten the horses. Tolerance is, however, not approval. If you are a participant in all the hoopla over Pride Month, well and good. I may be quietly laughing to myself over some of the celebration rituals, or merchandise, or rhetoric. And I will certainly be avoiding gatherings where it seems acceptable to openly display genitalia. I like a topless beach as much as the next person, but fully erect appendages on public streets are a bit much.

But I would like to ask people in the LGTBQIA2S+ community whether they are proud that some of their members are chanting this threat that they are “coming for your children”. Are Pride Activists going to disavow this? Are they going to censure the perpetrators?

Let me assure the Pride Promoters that behavior like this is making tolerant people like me a lot less tolerant.