welcome to pride month we're going to
talk about what pride month
is and why we need it and do we even
need a pride month but first
just a real quick history lesson pride
month was first invented in new york in
flushing queens
in 1939 on the exact location in the
exact same building where
genus was first invented by a tailor and
his
very close friend a rather bewildered
steel worker
and exactly one month to the day later
the very first
draft of the lgbtq agenda
was drafted although back then it was of
course pre-acronym so
in its original form it was just called
the lesbian proclamation
an alternate version of that joke was i
was going to call it the man love
manifesto because i love alliteration
but
in honor of the fact that the lesbians
have been so very important to the pride
movement in general i figured we better
recognize those girls
it is after all why the l comes first in
the acronym and that by the way is not a
joke
in the original form in the original
abbreviation uh the l didn't come first
the g came first but then in recognition
of all the hard work and support
that the elves provided everybody else
well it was decided that the l should
come first and of course the opening to
this video was a complete fabrication a
joke i thought it sounded funny it was a
lighthearted way to roll into this so
hopefully get your attention thus far
so i can invite you to like and
subscribe and bell and do the thing in
the comments and all that kind of stuff
we're supposed to beg you for
hello again i am blunty it is pride
month and no
the entirety of my channel is not going
to be just about
uh lgbtq agenda stuff or sjw
videos for this entire month so if you
are the type person who only comes here
for the stuff i do about video games for
example
feel free just do not click on these
videos it's pretty easy to tell which
videos you're about which by the
thumbnail and the title in general you
can pretty easily tell which ones are
going to be the pride ones i probably
have a rainbow there somewhere and the
gaming ones are probably going to have
something to do with gaming so
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stuff if you're not interested in this
sort of stuff if you're against it for
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you don't have to
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you could just not watch the content you
didn't come here for
or is that too easy alternatively you
can come here and give it a good listen
maybe you might learn something
interesting
i'm not going to try and change your
mind on anything but you know listening
to people can gain new perspectives
and that is part of what i like to think
pride month is about
but before we get there let's talk about
the argument that always comes up from
certain types of people i'm not going to
call them friends of a certain
historical figure because a lot of
people got really
angry about it last time i did that but
you know how i'm talking about
but the general argument against having
a pride month is why do we need a pride
month
if you are born this way surely it
shouldn't be something you'll be proud
of
if you're born that way you can't help
but it's no more valid having a pride
month and it is having a green eyes
month
people are born with green eyes are just
born that way and it's nothing to be
proud i was just how they are
that's how you say you are so why do we
need a pride month
and sure in a completely sterile
universe
where morons get to make these kinds of
false equivalencies while standing atop
a very rickety stepladder held together
entirely
with still moist glue of well let's be
kind and call it logic
but let me ask you this in response when
is the last time you heard of someone
getting kicked out of
home as a teenager because their eyes
were green or the last time you heard
someone
being denied medical treatment because
their eyes were green or the last time
you heard someone being bashed in the
street
because their eyes were green it's not
the same thing
loves and pride month isn't about pride
externalized
it's not all about people going hey look
at me look at me unqueer look at me look
at me look at me pay attention to me
this is all about me this is my month
look at me
this is about me me me me me gay or
lesbian or bi or queer or
trans or whatever any other letter or
part of the spectrum you care for
i mean it certainly can be about that
and it's perfectly valid
to be proud of a letter you've picked
out of that acronym because well
getting to that point can be pretty
tricky for some people
and involves a lot of heartache a lot of
stress a lot of depression a lot of
physical risk sometimes it's very scary
it's very challenging
and you know it is something to be proud
of to finally claim
that little corner of the rainbow frag
that frag
flag the rainbow ruined the whole spiel
there the rainbow
point is it is something to be proud of
when you can finally stand up tall and
say
i am this pride month is also when we
have the talk about
rainbow capitalism and all the brands
come out and they change their logos on
twitter with rainbows in them or a
little circley rainbow thing around it
or they make one or two posts
a week with rainbow background saying we
love you we support you
lovers love here's our product with a
rainbow that you can buy right here
and other people get real pissy about
that and a lot of people are pretty
happy about that you go oh finally
though
i like this brand it's nice to see this
brand coming out and saying
that they're you know they're okay with
the gay
that that that feels great and other
people are going well they're just
they're just sort of
you know capitalists and monstrous
corporations just trying to take
advantage and market to
gay people and they only want to sell
stuff with rainbows on it so they can
make more money well yes
their businesses the corporations that's
their whole deal
their purpose is to make money sell
products make money that's why they
exist so filtering their
you know pride month stuff through the
lens of that i feel is okay
it's better if you know a portion of the
proceeds goes to an appropriate
you know lgbt charity organization or
something like that it's better if they
do that all year round
as well or at the very least knowing
that certain companies work
with lgbtqia organizations to make sure
their own workplaces are
friendly and open and accepting and
education happens in that
like lego for example i did a video
about lego's rainbow
uh set thing for a pride month and you
know none of the proceeds are going to
an appropriate charity but lego have a
long history of working with appropriate
organizations so their workplace
is as lgbtqia friendly as possible
and of course they are a danish company
and as i pointed out in the other lego
video
the danish people have a very long
history of being among the first
to open up rights and opportunities and
you know equality
for uh the rainbow brigade as it were
and i find it
absolutely delightful that the your
feelings crowd
get their feelings really really hurt
anytime in june when they see one of
their
preferred brands post a rainbow on their
product or release some oreo cookies
with some
with some colored uh goo in the in the
middle i
love watching them go into absolute
hissy fits
about this stuff and claiming well
that's it i'm never buying your product
again
supporting the agenda so you ask why do
we need pride month at all well
because of that that reaction for a
start
the very tip of the iceberg because that
because people so
angry so frustrated so furious
that queer people exist and not just
exist but they are reminded of it
constantly throughout the month of june
they get so
so so panty-twisted about it that they
will stop
buying their favorite products in
protest their kids will no longer have
lego given to them they are so angry
that that lego has the audacity to say
well
you know being queer is a thing that
happens in the world and we're pretty
cool with that
so why do we need pride month because of
that and because of so
many other reasons so many important
reasons so many stupid reasons as well
it's okay to have a stupid reason to
have pride month and talk about pride
month it's okay
very important and vital and and you
know
reasons that affect people's health and
safety and equality
all of it is valid pride month like
pride itself
like queerness itself is a spectrum
are you tired of hearing about the word
spectrum yet it's such a useful word to
talk about so many different things
i love the word spectrum it's one of
those percussive words i love to say
spectrum but mostly i like to think of
the pride
in pride month about the pride and
gender by helping others with their own
journeys and self-understanding about
pride in trying to educate trying to
help people understand better because
ignorance is at the root
of all this fear and hatred fear leads
to anger anger leads to hate
and hate leads to suffering and it is
also being proud of the accomplishments
of everyone else
behind us who've worked for decades now
to get us where we are today we've still
got a road ahead
don't get me wrong but compared to where
you know gay rights and whatnot were
in say the 1939's or something well
there's a lot to be proud of there
there's been a lot of progress made
and a lot of people are far safer than
they ever were and have more
opportunities to be treated
equally than they ever have been in the
world in the past
and it is absolutely important we
recognize
learn about celebrate and be proud of
the accomplishments of these people
these these people with irrepressible
strength and spirit who helped
get us here today the people who did
stand up
in front of frothy mouthed angry mobs
filled of ignorant and
hate pouring off them like a toxic tidal
wave
and just stood in their path and said
hey
we're here we're queer
you should probably get used to it
because we ain't going nowhere
love but what pride month is or needs to
be
also changes depending on where the
community is at any one point
you know i'm not just talking about
locally pride month might mean something
very different to someone in
uh iran than it does here in sydney for
example
but also on the spectrum of time what
pride month used to be this
furious screaming marching down the
street saying
please just recognize us as other people
let's start there can you see me as a
human
all the way through to today where you
know a lot of the activism around pride
is still
fighting for equal rights equal access
pride month can also be an opportunity
for people to come out knowing that
there's this whole swell of noise around
them
and lots of other people sort of coming
at the same time and lots of
opportunities for support
to help you stand up and say that thing
which you are
so pride month is also welcoming those
people who have finally found
you know that the strength and will and
opportunity and faith enough in those
around them to be able to come out
or indeed offering our support to the
people who just haven't figured out what
their deal
is yet they're still searching for that
particular color in one of the flags
that suits them
which letter of the acronym should they
pick up and slap on their hat
it's you know time to help those people
talk to those people talk about our own
experiences and our own journeys and in
listening to us tell our stories
maybe someone hears something familiar
uh for their story
oh okay i've felt exactly that way i
cuz let me tell you the pride you feel
in yourself when you finally figure out
your deal
when all these little puzzle pieces in
your past start falling into place oh
okay
i felt that way or acted that way or
this relationship
you know if it went this way or this way
because of
you know everything starts making sense
with a new context with a new word
you're not it's not a mystery anymore
it's not confusing anymore why did that
happen was it something i did was
something i did did i not understand
something suddenly
with understanding you know all these
jumbled puzzle pieces become
a picture a picture of yourself
pride month is about visibility it's
about being seen
it's about having conversations it's
about being open to having conversations
it's about
listening as well and i'm not only
talking about communicating to
you know the the haters out there who
don't understand us or hate us for
whatever reason they have to hate us
i'm talking about within the community
as well because even within the
community
there are still misunderstandings and
arguments and
ignorance about you know what means what
and who belongs where and what's
you know there's there's the oppression
olympics thing going on and so oh
you know we deserve more attention
because we have it harder out there in
the world and your particular kind of
your particular corner of the rainbow
flag you don't get oppressed as much so
your voice doesn't count us with that
kind of
rubbish we've got to take control of
that as well but like i said for me
pride month is about communication about
education about
learning so do anyone not under the
shadow of that big
rainbow flag i invite you to try and
learn as much as you can and talk to
real
people about this sort of stuff and have
conversations and don't be afraid to ask
dumb questions i promise you
probably won't be the first time i've
heard it i'll probably have a really
concise answer for you they've been
working on for quite some many years now
to try and
explain things to you as clearly and
concisely as possible and for those of
you
under the shadow of the big rainbow flag
i invite you to
look outside and within the group and
sort of clear up as much hostility
and open up to understanding as you can
because i think it's really important
that
all of us inside the shadow and outside
the shadow whatever the metaphor i was
using there
walk the walk as well as talking the
talk about openness
and acceptance and equality anyway
this is kind of more rambling and
excessive than i planned on making this
video i didn't have a script for this
one i am working on scripts for the
other videos
oh it's been hard work my brain has been
in a very weird place it's been hard to
focus and constraining sort of get my
thoughts
in an appropriate order and stuff so i'm
still working on those scripts but
hopefully i can get them to make sense
and hopefully i get them to
to be accessible and understandable and
hopefully i get them to be concise
enough to where people will watch all
the way through for those of you who did
watch all the way through this one
thank you very much for that i do
appreciate it and thank you as always to
the patrons who are scrolling up above
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