The Pride Tweet That Caused a Glitch in the Matrix

How Gay Pride has turned into a disservice to Gays.

On June 1st, the start of Gay Pride Month, I posted a Tweet that had been a long time coming. 

I was not sure how it would be received and thought it would go mostly unnoticed as I didn’t have much of a following.  It wasn’t so much about getting a reaction than getting it off my chest and vocalizing something that I wanted to have no attachment to.  I had long felt disenfranchised from what was being passed off as gay culture for many years and as the media and this new movement itself continued to place everything that wasn’t straight under the umbrella of an increasingly intolerant and demanding worldview, I needed to make the point that I resented being placed under that umbrella.  

Just as drunk drivers don’t represent all drivers, I wanted to remind people that the voices of this new LGBTQ+ militia did not represent all gays, but only a loud vocal minority. In other words, my words were meant to convey a different anthem, “We are here! We are gay and we are sane!”

The view I always held of gays was of success, creativity, humor and good taste. Of course there was always a narcissistic superior queen to be found, but this new breed does not embody many of the positive qualities I admired. They would be better characterized as being intolerant, entitled and completely lacking in a sense of humor. They seem to come from a fabulist’s world where unlimited and unknown gender options could be selected like a flavor of ice cream and if they identified as a scoop of unicorn shit, everyone else would have to accept it as truth or face the wrath of their mob. 

But most unsettling has been the increased attention given to children under the guise of teaching them about inclusivity and acceptance when we already live in a society where being gay is routinely ignored and beyond forcing on people to understand. Children gain knowledge naturally and in their own time with the help of their parents. Never in modern history have children needed strangers, teachers and drag queens to educate them about imaginary genders and the use of their genitals and what they can do with them.  This is the behavior of predators and is absolutely a modern day version of conversion therapy.  How could I not disavow this? 

Telling has been the almost unfathomable level of disconnectedness and hypocrisy when it comes to blind supporters and those conditioned into the LGBTQ+ agenda.  In their demands for unnamable rights that they think they are deprived of and a pathological paranoia that all Conservative people and people of faith want them all to be marched into gas chambers, it’s these people who scream the loudest and demand to be heard that are the first ones to insist that the opinions of others need to be silenced.

When they hear ‘one of their own’ dismantle their Barbi Dream House, there is little to no attempt at trying to understand my position. I don’t think they are capable of that. Instead, they opt straight for insults and ad hominem attacks. Despite being a gay minority (I am Mexican) who’s worked hard to get what little I have, I have been called straight, white, racist, a bigot, rich, ugly, a bootlicker and other unpleasantries.  Over and over I have experienced people who are convinced that my own personal opinions were motivated by attention seeking. I’ve seen this before, where you offer a contrasting opinion and instead of people understanding that some people do have their own independent thoughts, they assume you are just as narcissistic as they are and accuse you of what they are guilty of. They can’t grasp the concept that I don’t have to agree with them.

Coming out in opposition to a loud programmed body of identitarians has revealed not only their weakness and inability to reason, but a darkness that presents itself in language steeped in fear.  My condemnation of a belief system that they live by is a tremor of existential crisis within them—a glitch in their reality that they can only push away by denial and name calling.  I’m reaching the conclusion that not only are these triggered units of flesh threatened by truth, they often don’t even understand the meaning of the words they use.  Outraged voices tell me that I am ‘setting back the cause’ and that I am ‘degrading myself’ while a tsunami of support from straight, religious and Conservative people tell me otherwise. 

In conclusion, besides wanting to extricate my name from under the LGBTQ+ banner, I also want to assure those who cling to their ideologies and programmed beliefs, that they will be the ones blamed for setting back the cause. You don’t mess with children and not expect to see pushback even from those you imagined to be in your all inclusive ‘family’.