People want a show, and putting on that show is expensive.
If pride is just a march, that can be done with small fundraising. If Pride has 3 events a day, every day for a week, ending with a parade and a concert, that needs outside funds.
Do people want a show? Or has a protest become co-opted by capitalism and the forces of status quo into a spectacle of entertainment that’s largely empty of any political or lasting benefit to queer people?
That’s a rhetorical question because yes, yes to that second one I’m pretty sure.
How the hell did it become normalized that a human rights protest have corporate sponsors? It makes no damn sense.
People want a show, and putting on that show is expensive.
If pride is just a march, that can be done with small fundraising. If Pride has 3 events a day, every day for a week, ending with a parade and a concert, that needs outside funds.
Do people want a show? Or has a protest become co-opted by capitalism and the forces of status quo into a spectacle of entertainment that’s largely empty of any political or lasting benefit to queer people?
That’s a rhetorical question because yes, yes to that second one I’m pretty sure.