1. I have no more interest in the rite of passage stories of people discovering what sex they like to poke than in my hearing of any other over worked narrative of self-esteem discovery - be it gay, religious, addiction redemption, or fat pride testimony. The drumbeat of "look at me" identity and self-esteem movements is a bottomless public acting out, mostly of benefit to the insatiably resentful axe-grinders, but not to the other 95 percent of humanity who deals with its own individual angels and demons (without the need of such ego soothing collectivized pride clap-trap).
2. Of course it is a "single issue identity movement', meaning that the REAL issue is what benefits vs what harms an identity group. The gay identity pride movement is not about universalist issues of welfare, education, Medicare for all, saving the environment or national defense. It's not based on good character, a religious mission, or altruistic accomplishments; it is purely a special interest based group that seeks special social approval and benefits for the few and sacrifices from the many BECAUSE of their "special" sexual identity.
To that end, it is not about taking responsibility for this issue of one's one own self healing and moving on; it is about finding community in blaming others for their understandable reactions to a biological and behavioral abnormality. Gay Pride offers the alienated refuge from dealing with their own nagging sense of social illegitimacy, their strangeness to the whole, their own personal shortcomings and failures. Yet the movement does not provide normality in the whole, rather it provides a refuge in the sectarian and comforting righteous identity for the abnormal.
In short, the gay pride movement members must feel special and alienated in order find refuge in the comforts of collective, familial, identity.
3) Comfort in alienation requires eternal grievances. As such, the movement will always insist that it has further to go because otherwise identity pride becomes irrelevant to the members meaningful existence - without gay identity the person must earn their legitimacy on their true self. The knowledge of "who they really are" becomes a threat to the illusion of self. Do they beat their spouse? Mistreat their children? Cheat their employer? Lie? Steal? or gamble away the mortgage payment? All the mundane character questions faced by those who have lived their lives without avoidance by bragging over their family, religion, class, or good (or bad) fortune.
4) Comfort in alienation also requires reliving the history of the dead, retelling the story of individuals who didn't know they'd be adopted into a 'group' movement 50 or 100 years hence, long after such stories have become irrelevant. In fact, the less the contemporary oppression the more it REQUIRES the fueling of identity with more history of the dead - a history that the identity movement INSISTS must be expanded and fed to everyone in society. Hence, such identity propaganda insists it must pass on a grievance to (and implicitly against) those who never committed a grievance, for the benefit of those who currently never suffered from it.
5) Finally, I have no sympathy for any movement based on "pride" over a biological or random event (such as sex or sexual orientation). I find it as intellectually disgusting as "IQ pride", "disability pride", "class pride", "race pride" or "family history pride". Hubris movements are, at their root, end up be insulting to others. They are vain, self-centered, inflexible, doctrinaire, divisive, blinding, intolerant and arrogant. They are one of the seven sins for good reason.
Finally, note that the historical insecurity of
individuals for behavior that was too flagrant and disreputable in some circles was a source of personal insecurity but had nothing to do with group identity (which didn't exist) or political movements. None of this has a thimble of relevancy to the current gay pride movement where-in there is no good reason for insecurity EXCEPT for the subliminal knowledge, the natural knowing, of an abnormality being discomforting EVEN to the abnormal.
This has nothing to do with majority oppression or values indoctrination; it has to do with a natural understanding that every flock of sheep knows, as well as the errant goat, they aren't members of the same flock.
