"If sexual orientation is morally neutral and should not be a source of shame, then why should it be a source of pride?"

"When Pride goes too far"

I highly recommend this article in the Spectator by Douglas Murray. (Free up to three articles.) Aren’t all these multiple pride days, weeks, months and (to come?) years and decades getting boring?

The article starts:

As all non-bigoted readers will know, this is the holy and most ancient month of Pride. The time of year when — like our ancestors of yore — we bedeck our banks, supermarkets and public buildings with the latest variant of the rainbow flag. For a while now, the flag has kept coming with added details, such as circles, triangles, squares and other ways to provoke epilepsy, all because some people felt the old “inclusive” flag was not inclusive enough.

So it had these extra bits added to celebrate everyone from gay men to asexuals and anything in between. In recent times, these in-betweeners have included “nonbinary” and “two-spirit” people — two groups that are especially interesting since nobody had heard of the concepts until a few years ago, yet now we must accept that they too are anciently recognized groups. What the flag is meant to remind us is that nobody will be free until everyone who has just invented an identity can have that identity not merely affirmed, but celebrated by a flag flying from every building in the land.

There is another way of seeing all this of course. Which is to realize that it has gone far too far, that most of us are thoroughly bored of it, and that it would be a good thing if the whole shebang stopped. (Shebang, incidentally, is not another identity group.)