I am minding my own business LOL
It's usually the LGBT crowd that demand attention and say LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME with their pride parades et al.
I'm 43 years old. While I am heterosexual and cis, I'm pro-LGBTQA+ rights. I live on the border with Vermont, which is ground zero for gay rights. I vacation in Burlington. I vacation Ogunquit, Maine, called Gay Vegas and the most gay-friendly town in New England. You know how many times I've found myself in a situation where the LGBTQA+ "crowd" "demands" my attention?
Exactly zero.
I've never been forced into a drag story hour, never had roving bands of itinerant LGBTQA+ people demand I be gay, never had a representative of the LGBTQA+ community knock on my door and say "do you have a moment to spare to hear about Ricky Martin, Nathan Lane, and Rupaul?" I've never looked up, noticed that gay people have descended upon me like pigeons in a park and said to myself "great, I'm in the middle of one of those pop-up pride events again." I've never been stuck in traffic behind a pride parade that randomly appeared out of nowhere and now I'm forced to be a part of it. My husband and I grew up watching "Tootsie," "Ms. Doubtfire," "Some Like it Hot," "Bosom Buddies," and yet, somehow we didn't catch the trans.
If you are routinely finding yourself in scenarios where you're in a crowd of LGBTQA+ people demanding your attention... Respectfully... Where on earth are you hanging out? Like, are you going to midnight screenings of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and surprised they aren't like a Sunday church service? Are you going to gay bars when you meant to hit up the Legion? Like... If you find yourself SO surrounded by SO many gays just DEMANDING your attention and you can't stand it... It's time to audit how you're spending your time.
Disgusting.
And I am absolutely polite. I am not ignorant because I do not agree with an ideology, or think adult only themes should be for ADULTS ONLY.
Just a random thought... But claiming you are "absolutely polite" to an entire group of people who, literally four words earlier you called "disgusting" is not the most believable thing you said.
And reminder, I didn't say that because you don't agree with the ideology means you must be ignorant. I said that because of the things you said while expressing your "absolutely polite" position on the "disgusting" group of people you're maligning, you have revealed that you're a bit ignorant on the topic. All you've done is said "no I'm not" which is like... Ok, so you say you're not. But that doesn't really change the fact that a lot of the things you say are simply not true.
Again. I don't care what adults do. BUT when it HARMS minors or if AFFECTS the rights of others I WILL SPEAK UP.
Period.
Well, even that's subjective though, isn't it? Because if a minor who is LGBTQA+ read that you think they're disgusting, I don't think we can claim you're being nice or helpful. In fact, perpetuating negative speak about the demographic most at risk to self harm and unfair treatment by others, calling them "disgusting" and implying they're pedophiles... One would call that harmful.
So... Is it that harming minors is bad? Or is it that harming some minors is acceptable losses as long as you can really drive home how much you don't like a group of people for no discernable reason beyond your lack of knowledge and innate biases?