Corporate pandering is an index for acceptance, but not acceptance itself. It is, as you said, a flag. The dislike stems for it being disingenuous. Still, it is nice having a barometer.

If it were truly in support, they’d donate profits or feature designers from the community. Some do, but a lot of it is cheap rainbow colored junk from China to increase profits.

It would be wise for people to do a background check on who the corporations support through the Goods Unite Us resource

I have this feeling that the "X months" we have, as well the other periods of special recognition, serves a primary purpose of just setting people off.

For real, the ONLY people who really have a strong reaction to things like Black History Month are racists. The ONLY people who really care that there's a "Gay Pride Month" are the frothing homophobes. For everyone else, particularly the people whom those days or months celebrate, it's just Tuesday. Or some such normal day where nothing changes and they still have to constantly look over their shoulder.

If all it does is make some backwards, broken asshole lose his mind and rage about how "unfair" it is that nobody is giving them their special day, then it's a victory. If all these recognition periods do is remind us all that there is a sizable segment of our population who hate you personally then it's actually doing good on the long-term, because we can use it as a barometer. We can use these days and months to gauge how much more work we have to do squashing nazis and purging hate groups, and how much protection our friends and neighbors still need simply for existing outside the "white CIS straight male American" spectrum.

First comes pride, then greed. Personally I'm waiting for wrath.

Just because your queerness is less easily depicted, it's no less valid.

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