Answering the Most Common Questions About Pride: Is Pride Month Still Necessary or Has It Gone Too Far?
Written by Peter Boykin on June 4, 2025
Answering the Most Common Questions About Pride:
Is Pride Month Still Necessary or Has It Gone Too Far?
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Is Pride Month About Equality or Has It Been Hijacked by Extremes?
Has Pride Month lost its meaning, or does it still serve a vital purpose? Peter Boykin breaks it down from a Constitutional conservative lens and makes the case for reclaiming Pride from radicals and extremists while defending liberty for all.
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Answering the Most Common Questions About Pride:
Is Pride Month Still Necessary or Has It Gone Too Far?
The First Pride Was Not a Party, It Was a Stand for Liberty
The first Pride wasn’t flashy.
It wasn’t drenched in glitter.
It wasn’t about sex, nor was it about political branding or party loyalty.
It was something far more raw, more human.
It was real.
A humble gathering in the heart of a city that didn’t care we existed until we refused to be erased. It wasn’t corporate-sponsored. No floats, no DJs, no rainbow logos slapped onto big business ads for one month of the year. There were no stages, no celebrity endorsements, and certainly no politicians racing to co-opt the message.
It was a protest, and more than that, it was a declaration.
We were a sea of ordinary people. Many of us bore the bruises and emotional scars of a society that taught us we were something to be ashamed of. People who had been told by their pastors they were going to hell. People who were disowned by their families, laughed at in schools, fired from jobs for who they loved, and beaten on street corners just for walking home.
There weren’t cameras or Instagram influencers. There was no viral coverage.
Just people. And voices.
And those voices said clearly:
“We exist. We are human. And we are not going back into the closet.”
We didn’t demand parades. We demanded dignity.
We didn’t shout for handouts. We stood for freedom.
It was not about celebration; it was about survival.
That’s the legacy we must remember today, especially as Pride becomes more commercialized or politicized. Before the slogans, before the flags, before the hashtags, there were just people standing side-by-side, echoing a message that defines any free people in a Constitutional Republic: liberty, visibility, and the right to live without fear.
Those early gatherings weren’t about division. They were about unity in the face of erasure. That’s what the first Pride was. And that’s what it should remain at its core.
Remembering Pride Before the Politics
These moments weren’t about politics; it was about liberty. About affirming the basic rights promised by our Constitutional Republic: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That history sticks with me. Not because it was grand, but because it was honest. It was rooted in our shared American promise, that all individuals, regardless of who they are, deserve to live freely and without fear. That’s a principle not of the Left or the Right, it’s a foundational truth.
But what happens when that truth gets lost?
What happens when the original message of Pride gets hijacked, by radicals pushing fringe ideologies, by activists who confuse liberty with license, and yes, by bureaucrats and cultural elites who reduce Pride to a seasonal marketing gimmick?
And what happens when my own side, people on the Right, start behaving like the very cancel culture crowd we criticize? Lashing out at anything they don’t immediately understand. Dismissing ideas they haven’t even read. Attacking articles they didn’t bother to click on. Shouting “fake news” without so much as a glance at the facts.
It’s frustrating. And it’s dangerous.
Because when both sides stop listening, the truth becomes the first casualty.
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Pride and the Paradox of Rainbow Capitalism
I remember my first Pride. It was raw, real, and revolutionary. And it sure wasn’t a corporate-sponsored parade with rainbow capitalism dripping from every float. There were no drag brunches backed by soda companies, no banks changing their logos to rainbows for 30 days, and certainly no multi-billion-dollar corporations pretending to care, at least not until they saw profit in it.
That’s the irony we live in now.
On one hand, we should recognize how far we’ve come as a Constitutional Republic. We live in a country where businesses don’t turn LGBTQ+ people away at the door anymore. We’re not segregated into “straight only” and “gay only” spaces like we once were, or like America once did to people based on skin color. We don’t live under policies that flat-out criminalize who we are. That’s progress. That’s freedom in action.
It means something when major companies are no longer afraid to openly support LGBTQ+ Americans. Visibility matters. And in a world where our community was once completely invisible in mainstream culture, corporate recognition, however flawed, has helped push acceptance forward. For young people, seeing representation in ads, stores, and media can be life-affirming.
But let’s not lie to ourselves either.
Rainbow capitalism is not the same as true support. Too many corporations wave the Pride flag in June and then turn around in July to fund politicians or regimes who legislate against LGBTQ+ rights. They sponsor drag shows here, and sign contracts with anti-gay governments abroad. They post #LoveIsLove hashtags while lobbying for trade in nations where homosexuality is a crime.
That’s not allyship. That’s exploitation.
It’s easy for corporations to profit from Pride when it’s trendy. What we need are businesses that stand with us when it’s not easy, when the backlash is loud, when the headlines aren’t flattering, and when the right thing is not the most profitable thing.
Pride was never meant to be a marketing campaign. It was born from protest, from riots, from resistance, from people who had nothing to lose but still chose to stand up. And while we can appreciate the progress we’ve made, we must also remain critical of what Pride has become in some corners: a corporate-sponsored distraction from the deeper issues still affecting our community.
Pride shouldn’t just be performative. It should mean something. That’s why it’s more important than ever for constitutional conservatives, especially those who are LGBTQ+ or allies, to speak out. To reclaim the message of Pride from both the radical extremes and the shallow commercialization.
Because Pride, at its heart, is about liberty, and liberty is never for sale.
Is Pride Month Still Relevant Today A Constitutional Response to the Backlash
As a Constitutionalist for Liberty and an openly gay conservative, I’ve watched both sides twist Pride into something it was never meant to be. And yet, the need for it hasn’t gone away. The questions critics ask are common, and many are fair. But what’s unfair is that most of those critics don’t even engage with the facts.
So, let’s do it here.
Answering the Most Common Questions About Pride:
Q: Why is there a Pride Month, but not a Straight Pride Month?
A: There is no “Straight Pride Month” because straight people were never told their love was illegal. That’s not special treatment, it’s historical reality. And Pride Month is a reminder that silence was never safe.
Q: Why do we need a whole month to be gay? Nobody else gets a month.
A: Pride isn’t about demanding special treatment. It’s about remembrance and resilience. LGBTQ+ people were once criminalized, denied housing, fired from jobs, and physically attacked. The Stonewall Uprising in 1969 wasn’t a party, it was a rebellion against government overreach and systemic abuse.
Q: Isn’t Pride just pushing sexuality in people’s faces?
A: If a gay couple holding hands is “pushing sexuality,” what do we call straight couples doing the same? Pride isn’t about flaunting sex; it’s about the freedom to live without hiding. Visibility is not vanity. It’s survival.
Q: Why is Pride in schools and public spaces? Isn’t this grooming kids?
A: Let’s be clear. Any event involving children must be age-appropriate; when it’s not, it should be condemned. But the majority of school-based Pride efforts focus on inclusion and anti-bullying, not sex education.
Condemning all of Pride for the actions of a few radicals is like canceling the Fourth of July because of one bad parade. We must protect children, but we also must defend the truth.
Q: Don’t gay people already have the same rights? What else do you want?
A: On paper, yes, after cases like Obergefell and Bostock. But the lived reality is different. LGBTQ+ Americans are still bullied, harassed, targeted, and, especially in conservative communities, faced with rejection and isolation.
Legal equality doesn’t guarantee cultural acceptance. Pride is not a demand for new rights. It’s a reminder to defend the ones already earned.
Q: Why talk about sexuality at all? Isn’t that private?
A: If you talk about your wife, wear a wedding ring, or post your anniversary on Facebook, you’re talking about your relationship. Straight people share their lives every day. LGBTQ+ people just want the same freedom, to exist publicly without apology.
Q: But some Pride parades are obscene. Why support that?
A: Yes, some events go too far. I’ve seen it. I don’t support it. Most gay people don’t support it. But the solution isn’t to walk away, it’s to show up and steer things back to dignity and common sense.
We need more grounded voices at Pride, not fewer.
Q: What’s with all the new letters and identities? It’s confusing.
A: You’re not alone. A lot of us in the LGB community feel overwhelmed, too. You don’t have to understand every label to respect someone’s humanity. Let’s support equal rights without letting the message get buried under ideology.
Q: Isn’t Pride now just a far-left political tool?
A: In some places, yes. Pride has been co-opted by radicals to push censorship, forced pronouns, and political purity tests. That is not what Pride was born to be. Pride was a rebellion against government oppression, not a celebration of mob rule.
That’s why conservatives, libertarians, and centrists must stay involved. If we don’t speak up, we let the extremes define it all.
Q: If you’re equal now, why keep Pride going? Isn’t it just attention-seeking?
A: Equality under law is one thing. Equality in everyday life is another. As long as LGBTQ+ people are being demonized, stereotyped, or threatened, Pride will be relevant, not to demand attention, but to defend liberty.
Q: If Pride has gone off the rails, why not just leave it behind?
A: Because walking away means letting extremists win. If you think Pride has lost its way, then help take it back. I’m not willing to surrender that ground to radicals. You shouldn’t be either.
Pride is Not About Special Treatment, It’s About Not Being Erased
So, here’s the bottom line. Pride doesn’t need to be your thing. You don’t have to wave a flag. But if you believe in the core values of our Constitutional Republic, freedom, personal responsibility, and equal treatment under the law, then you should understand why Pride still matters.
And if you’re tired of the noise, the radicals, and the circus, then don’t walk away. Stand up. Speak louder. Help reset the message.
Because that is what it means to Go Right.
🎙️ #GoRight with Peter Boykin – #TakeBackPride
Folks, here’s the bottom line, Pride was never meant to be about politics. It was never meant to be about extremism or sexual shock value. Pride was about survival. It was about telling the world: “You will not silence me. You will not erase me.” It was about liberty. And liberty doesn’t belong to the Left or the Right, it belongs to all of us.
Now look, I know some of you are frustrated. I hear it every day. You’re tired of the circus, tired of the noise, tired of seeing something meaningful twisted into a marketing campaign or hijacked by radicals who want to shout down faith, family, and freedom.
But here’s the deal: we don’t fix that by walking away. We don’t win by staying silent. We win by showing up. We win by being the voice of reason in a room full of extremes. We win by reclaiming what was ours to begin with, PRIDE in who we are, PRIDE in our freedom, PRIDE in being Americans.
That’s why I refuse to surrender Pride Month to the far-left or give the far-right a reason to say “see, I told you so.” I’m not here to push an agenda, I’m here to push the truth. And the truth is this: freedom only survives when good people stand up and say, “enough.”
Pride is not about asking for more, it’s about ensuring we don’t lose the progress we’ve made. It’s about standing firm for liberty, not just for LGBTQ Americans, but for ALL Americans.
So, whether you’re gay, straight, conservative, liberal, or somewhere in between, I ask you this:
Are you willing to #GoRight with me?
Are you willing to stand for dignity, not division?
Are you willing to defend truth, not tribalism?
Are you willing to fight for liberty, even when it’s not convenient?
Because the fight is here. The time is now. And the direction… is RIGHT.
Let’s make Pride something we can all be proud of again.
It’s time to Go Right.
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Pride is not a left-wing product. It is a symbol of resistance, freedom, and survival. It has been hijacked by radicals, yes. But that’s no reason to retreat. It’s a call to reclaim it, to make it again about dignity, liberty, and truth.
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