With your adventures into the your daily social media fix, you may have come across this strange occurrence that you thought was a joke, but unfortunately, it's not.
Heterosexual pride is now a trending topic that is becoming popular within the current media trends. Many members of the LGBT community have become very upset by this situation and there is a very good reasoning behind it. If you're part of the heterosexual community, you may not understand why this would be an issue, but I promise it is, and here is why.
According to many religious beliefs, the heterosexual life style is the most accepted way of life. If a man and a woman are together, no one thinks of it, even when they show affection in public. But for the LGBT community, that is quite different. The LGBT community has mostly been shunned through the history of the world and in some cases, killed due to their genetic disposition.
Now, many may not know that the original source of the pride that the LGBT community holds, start from the 1969 Stonewall Riots. This marked the day that gay rights started to gain a spot light. Later, on June 28th, 1970, the first Pride Parade was in action and marked an unofficial pride month, being June.
Since the Stonewall Riots, the face of the LGBT community was never the same. After many other rebellious events, the LGBT community still had to fight. Fight hate, fight physically, mentally and even sacrifice their life in order to push the LGBT community a head to gain the rights that are owed to us, as humans.
Now, you probably think everything in the modern day is fine and dandy for the LGBT community in the year of 2016, but you would be terribly wrong. Yes, gay marriage is legalized (all though this is a mile stone, it should have had to be a court case to gain a basic American right). There is not a nationally recognized LGBT celebration month (June), which is wonderful, but 49 people had to die on top of the hundreds of thousands that have already died.
You may also noticed that we now have a pride memorial (official) which is the Stonewall bar that everything originated at and was done due to the Orlando Shooting. That is the problem, though. It took so many shootings, so much discrimination, so much hate, or much crime to finally push America to dedicate the first monument. Everything that has happened recently for the LGBT community is wonderful and amazing, but the amount of pain and shame that had to be endured for hundreds of years does not simply go away and mean nothing.
For heterosexuals, you are not asked if you're straight, people don't stop talking to you because you're straight, you are not beaten because you're straight, you are not raped because of it, or murdered, or shamed by your family, you're simply allow to love who you please without worry. Until you have had your parents cry because you told them your sexuality, until you've been called names, bullied through school, fired because of your sexuality, or anything else that is either mentally or psychically painful to endure growing up and presently, then you cannot possibly believe you deserve a heterosexual pride day.
Let's try something new, society. Let's think of others and their freedom and human rights -- not just your own.
