"No, they’re proud of the same thing that freed, abolitionist slaves, from heroes like like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, to Union soldiers in the Civil War, were proud of ..."
In my experience in the LGBTQ+ community (and I have my issues with the acronym but that's another can of worms for another time), they are very much "proud" of being queer. This is evident in their classic slogan: "One ought to be proud of their sexuality/gender identity (or more simply, queerness)." And not every member of the community experiences such hardship as those heroes you listed did, but yet, they are told to be proud. Proud of what? It's not their character; it's rather their queerness. And this is a perversion of what pride is: The absence of shame is not pride.
It's true that some community members do celebrate a rational conception of pride. But they are a minority; they are not representative of the LGBTQ+ community.
This is a matter of understanding Pride as it is, not as it should. Yes, there is a rational conception of pride; no, that rational conception is not that of Pride. The conception of pride of Pride is reflected in their aforementioned ubiquitous slogan: "One ought to be proud of their sexuality/gender identity (or more simply, queerness)." Their sense of pride is that of the unchosen, and Stewart is right that that is "profoundly mistaken."
Hi, Robert!
"What are they proud of? Being gay?
"No, they’re proud of the same thing that freed, abolitionist slaves, from heroes like like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, to Union soldiers in the Civil War, were proud of ..."
In my experience in the LGBTQ+ community (and I have my issues with the acronym but that's another can of worms for another time), they are very much "proud" of being queer. This is evident in their classic slogan: "One ought to be proud of their sexuality/gender identity (or more simply, queerness)." And not every member of the community experiences such hardship as those heroes you listed did, but yet, they are told to be proud. Proud of what? It's not their character; it's rather their queerness. And this is a perversion of what pride is: The absence of shame is not pride.
It's true that some community members do celebrate a rational conception of pride. But they are a minority; they are not representative of the LGBTQ+ community.
Your next read:
https://stewartmargolis.substack.com/p/the-value-of-pride
This is a matter of understanding Pride as it is, not as it should. Yes, there is a rational conception of pride; no, that rational conception is not that of Pride. The conception of pride of Pride is reflected in their aforementioned ubiquitous slogan: "One ought to be proud of their sexuality/gender identity (or more simply, queerness)." Their sense of pride is that of the unchosen, and Stewart is right that that is "profoundly mistaken."