has "no straights / cishets at pride" ever been a thing outside internet discourse. at least any time since pride parades/events started being mainstream. has this ever been a serious movement outside of people yapping online.
i worked for the group that plans my local pride festival last year. there is literally no way we would have ever, could have ever, done anything to keep cishet people "out" of pride. nor did we have the remotest interest. it would've caused so much extra effort, made everyone mad at us, not worked at all, and also gone against all sense and reason in terms of queer activism and trying to encourage support for the community in our city.
my boss was an extremely nice deeply midwestern gen x gay man. if i had genuinely suggested trying to keep cishets out of pride im pretty sure he would have backhanded me straight across the face as hard as possible. and he would be right to.
I feel like that idea in practice doesn't actually do anything positive either, I just don't get it. I once saw a cishet middle aged lawyer who coaches me with his wife at pride and that made me feel so much safer when around him honestly. It's a great show of support
