{"id":1500812,"date":"2022-06-02T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500812"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:16:37","slug":"the-new-gay-left-and-how-pride-became-an-angry-vicious-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-gay-left-and-how-pride-became-an-angry-vicious-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Gay Left, And How \u2018Pride\u2019 Became An Angry, Vicious Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-new-gay-left-and-how-pride-became-an-angry-vicious-movement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/A-2017-protest-for-transgender-admittance-to-the-military.-Ted-Eytan-Flickr.-e1654136778382.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If local parents don\u2019t let boys play on little girls\u2019 sports teams, the federal government will remove its support from their extracurricular activities, including after-school sports and other programs kids use to stay healthy, active, and engaged. <\/p>\n<p>If local parents don\u2019t let boys into\u00a0little girls\u2019 bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, then the feds will make sure the poorest children in their community <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/biden-admin-k-12-schools-must-put-boys-in-girls-bathrooms-to-get-federal-lunch-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">don\u2019t get the school-provided lunches American taxpayers pay for<\/a>. As many as 30 million kids use these programs, meaning millions could go hungry.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if parents in any way interfere with trans activist\u2019s demands for how local schools should operate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigationslawblog.com\/2022\/04\/department-of-education-to-propose-title-ix-revisions-supporting-transgender-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all federal taxpayer support<\/a> will be cut off.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to June \u2014 or Pride Month. All of the above are part of the celebration: These plans for schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-department-education-confirms-title-ix-protects-students-discrimination-based-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were announced last Pride Month<\/a>, and one year later, are poised to go into effect. So very festive.<\/p>\n<p>The changes in the gay activist left\u2019s targets and in their aggression have been building for years now. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mMBzfUj5zsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Long gone<\/a> are the days of gay pride as a movement that claims it\u2019s for inclusion, acceptance, and self-esteem. While the gay activist movement always fought for a hard shift from traditional, Christian values on things like marriage, today June 1 marks the start of a month of targeted campaigns to force submission to left-wing policies often far afield from even the radical goals of America\u2019s first gay activists.<\/p>\n<p>The signs of the shift are everywhere. But while companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/history\/pride.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like Boeing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=comcast+pride+logo&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS917US917&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsZM8bAsAVaE0S3kGYLtmmdAkWhZpA:1654133009347&#038;tbm=isch&#038;source=iu&#038;ictx=1&#038;vet=1&#038;fir=FuPKxQ0dymwaVM%252CgYEbAouuNVAlfM%252C_%253BPQZHEjlOQA4CVM%252C9JCiV5LV9R0wDM%252C_%253BecFcPlIssoHEUM%252Cou4Vh7gIPhsweM%252C_%253B-xb9wgwZ2PTTOM%252Cdv9HpdmJhr1vbM%252C_%253B84DCNZWUud0c_M%252C6ECtW1aaXpVMFM%252C_%253BizWeJTKOJRwDgM%252Cou4Vh7gIPhsweM%252C_%253Bg8U3qHIkQ9iEkM%252Cme0zlb38SAtejM%252C_%253BkZ1AlJiky1aD-M%252Cx0pVg1njekSwbM%252C_%253BT4ZvGLKWnXAOeM%252CUq47S8Rv-H1U9M%252C_%253BC1NL4Lst8TILrM%252CQdiKaM-MnXWYSM%252C_%253BNpdu7LWnGKn0dM%252C5ALwQQ5_CjwRAM%252C_%253BLFB2b_FTMuaYiM%252C69rLjWOMTXEPqM%252C_%253BME0-WcMDb_qj7M%252CcjsC7Pq91q5dxM%252C_%253Bg2VhQ1SzI8SUUM%252C15LrDCntE4wH_M%252C_&#038;usg=AI4_-kTqx7Vgry_w034MURvJkdREGnDLww&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwj9qrvTzY34AhWxZjABHbAGDnkQ9QF6BAgmEAE#imgrc=g8U3qHIkQ9iEkM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Comcast<\/a> find it easy enough to change their logo for a month (and executives at Disney openly brag about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10666065\/Disney-prez-says-mom-transgender-pansexual-children-wants-diverse-characters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how many<\/a> \u201ctrans kids\u201d they have, or how they\u2019re going to plant sexual propaganda in their programming), parents are less receptive to this aggressive agenda. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the federal government is seeking to bulldoze them, using taxpayer dollars to inflict pain on children if their parents don\u2019t acquiesce. It\u2019s a tactic the activists in our federal government have gotten used to: For months, they\u2019ve punished parents who don\u2019t want to vaccinate (or boost) little kids by hurting the children \u2014 suspending them from school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/equality-not-elitism\/school-exposure-policies-keep-healthy-children-away-from-in-person-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regardless of whether they\u2019re sick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the American government isn\u2019t alone in its aggressive tactics. A preschool special needs teacher in Wake, North Carolina resigned her job Monday after the state legislature learned she was using gay activist flashcards featuring a pregnant man to teach little kids about colors. In response, local gay activists and their allies in the news media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article261973165.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">connected upset parents to school shooters<\/a>, and claimed it was the parents who were \u201cendangering\u201d kids.<\/p>\n<p>Cases like this aren\u2019t confined to blue cities \u2014 and they aren\u2019t isolated. Their prevalence is why Florida passed a law banning teachers from talking about sex to children in third grade and under. The reasonableness of that demand is why, despite a media campaign claiming the legislation was homophobic, the American people <a href=\"https:\/\/pos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/POS-National-Poll-Release-Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broadly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/slim-majority-of-americans-support-floridas-bill-which-bans-teaching-on-gender-identity-dont-say-gay-ron-desantis-students-sexual-education-orientation-disney-politico-morning-consult-joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support<\/a> the law.<\/p>\n<p>That includes a lot of people who have no problem with \u201cgay rights,\u201d as they thought they understood them; because what does forcing little girls to shower with boys, or hoisting trans propaganda on special-needs babies have to do with \u201cgay rights\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>But more and more, the modern activist agenda is diverging from where it once stood. Police officers who want to march in gay pride parades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/01\/lgbtq-pride-events-police?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=editorial&#038;utm_content=politics-pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for example<\/a>, have been told by activists across the country they won\u2019t be permitted unless they take off their uniforms. <\/p>\n<p>How is it inclusive to stop gay police officers from participating unless they denounce their oaths and livelihoods? How is that about gay rights? Sure, gay activists claim it\u2019s due to \u201cthe pain\u201d of the Stonewall riots, but their predecessors who actually fought police officers at Stonewall let the police march.<\/p>\n<p>Why did they do that? Because they thought a more inclusive movement would further their political goals. Today, no longer. Even the rainbow flag \u2014  a symbol debuted at San Francisco\u2019s 1978 Pride Parade \u2014 has been changed with the movement.<\/p>\n<p>The original design was conceived as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/system\/files\/Flags%2520and%2520Symbols.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a broader symbol<\/a> of human inclusiveness. Yellow, for example, was never intended to represent Asian, nor red American Indian, et cetera. But in today\u2019s political climate, broad inclusiveness doesn\u2019t satisfy. So a symbol that once tried to celebrate a radical idea of diversity without any specific race or orientation specified now sports exclusive shapes and colors representing trans, \u201cnon-binary,\u201d black, and brown people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rainbow is so perfect because it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things,\u201d Gerry Baker, the radical gay activist and drag queen who designed the original rainbow flag, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2015\/06\/17\/moma-acquires-the-rainbow-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a 2015 interview<\/a>. \u201cPlus, it\u2019s a natural flag \u2014 it\u2019s [design is] from the sky!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, Baker\u2019s radical politics are on the outs, and the new, replacement progress pride flag\u2019s politics are in. This flag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/the-progress-pride-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was designed<\/a> \u201cin 2018 by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe\/xyr pronouns).\u201d It features a whole new and visibly intrusive space for transgender, non-binary, and black and brown people \u2014 placing, Quasar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/the-progress-pride-flag\">says<\/a>, \u201cdiscriminated minorities at the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a flag that stands for hard-left activism, separation, and preferential treatment. It\u2019s a flag that represents the shift America\u2019s seen from a radical form of activism some had come to accept, to a new radical activism being sneaked past parents into schools.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a flag that hung outside Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s office when she was in the Senate. It\u2019s a flag for a movement that is willing to hurt children to get its way. And it\u2019s a flag that\u2019s in power in America.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, a founding partner of RightForge, vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at The Daily Caller News Foundation and National Journalism Center, and the author of &#8220;The Art of the Donald.&#8221; His work has been featured in The American Mind, National Review, the New York Post and the Daily Caller, where he led the Daily Caller News Foundation and spent eight years. A frequent guest on Fox News and Fox Business, he was raised in Massachusetts and lives across the river from D.C. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBedfordDC\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If local parents don\u2019t let boys play on little girls\u2019 sports teams, the federal government will remove its support from their extracurricular activities, including after-school sports and other programs kids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}