This Pride Month Was Full of Hate 

As a gay Jewish person, this is the first year I was scared of being proud of my full identity and showing it. A minority within a minority. Harvey Milk wouldn’t stand for this :(

In post-WW2 Japan, we have the proverb, "Peace will never flow through hate."

Sailor moon does NOT approve of homophobia (sailor moons birthday is in June)

7:55 don’t forget Hamilton was bi, and some other often forgotten queer figures was that davinci was bi and painted his boyfriend as his model for Jesus and Isaac newton did not die a virgin and in fact had multiple gay love affairs

WE’RE HERE!! WE’RE QUEER!! WE WON’T DISAPPEAR!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I got an ad on this video from Prager U literally being like "Brazil has fallen, billions must perish." 💀 Bruh, wasnt Brazil the place that had that president that thought the c-virus vaxxine would turn people into crocodiles? 💀

I dont have a rainbow flag but I am flying the Gay male and lesbian colors right now.

I don’t care what your sexuality, gender, or fetishes are. Live, & let live. Just don’t become arrogant, & make the same mistakes that you claim your oppressors have made in the past towards you. The moment you become arrogant, & intolerant is the moment you become the very evil you claim to fight against. At that point, you lose ALL credibility, & paint a target on your back.

All the more reason to resist tyranny fervently.

I saw two gay married old dudes. Who made a post about being trump supporters. Part of the issue is some people really don't deserve the rights they've got.

For all my friends out there who can be trusted with guns, check out Hoffman Tactical. I'm not sure about his views on us, but he seems neutral at least. His parts kits and 3D designs are wonderful. That way, the bigots won't know you are armed, but you will still be a hard target. Defend equality. Of course, please still check with state laws on homemade firearms, here in MO I can legally build them as long as I don't transfer them to anyone else. Knowledge has no such restrictions. EDIT: No such restricitions, yet. They can try to stop the signal, but they can't.

Antinous was the lover of the Emperor Hadrian and he was declared a god by Hadrian after Antinous died. There are gay relationships in the Bible, Solomon and David for instance. The Song of Solomon reads like a declaration of love between Solomon and David.

considering what's going on in Palestine and the president still funding Israel, i don't think we can say the US military comes to the rescue of any country being attacked. maybe not a great line to keep in.

Years ago, a survivor of Stonewall, Jimmy Flowers, a housimg client dourimg the start of HOPWA.... Despite being forced to live in a dangerous place, he remarked that it was nothing compared to that night in Stonewall. I still miss seeing him and his old but very immaculate, a Convertable Pink Cadillac during our pride, but the stories he told, it was a amazing life cut short by HIV... Also, some don't know it, but it was mafia run and owned... I can only imagine what he saw and experienced in life.... He was a great friend and a vital link in our commuity, working on different boards to help educate others. If only the rest of this world cared like he did.... Rest in piece old friend...

Thank you for posting this

I see someone’s sex as their anatomical structure, and I see someone’s Gender as what they feel they are. I do not, however, downplay what they feel they are, because that’s their psychological decision of what they are, and taking away someone’s feelings would be like having none of my own feelings. Straight, Gay, WHATEVER, I don’t really care, so you do you and I do I, as I usually say, for my choices are for me and your choices are left out of my reach.

As much as I agree with the majority of what this video wants to show, I cannot say the same for how it was substanciated. A lot of the arguments that were used were not as based on evidence as I would like (ex. The historical figures of America mentioned being homosexual), others were substanciated with some historical sources that I believe may be biased, so a few more articles or (even better) studies by professionals for the subjects of the arguements presented in the video wouldn't do any harm. I also noticed how some arguements were completely based on bias, from what I can see. In short, while I agree with most of the contents of the video, I believe that it wasn't given enough supplementation with reason and credible sources, leading up to not easily convincing anyone who doesn't already lean towards supporting the LGBTQA+ community already.

My birthday in June what an amazing coincidence.

Last month and this month has been extremely conflicting for me. The things my brother says, my best friend, reading more on politics, reading Project 2025, hearing more about Trump, the situation of Palestine and Israel. Everything kinda blurs and the complexity is starting to make it clear on how much I really need to fill these knowledge gaps.

Actually two years, three days before stonewall there was the same thing that happened at a place called Comptons cafeteria on market Street in San Francisco.

I was very distressed on all social medias, i dont really have, like, a social life outside of the internet, doing anythung cost tons of money. So the internet and social media were my favorite place to be in. But in pride it was all just so negative, so horrible and terrible. I just wish for people to get along. But a new perspective changed me. It was always the same 5 people, i never saw more, maybe they vary, but it was always consistently just 5 people in those comments. They were the ones fighting and screaming like babies, spouting ignorance and hatred towards everyone, they are not many. They are just the same 5 people. And that made me feel better, also more productive because then i would'nt spend much time in social media.

Trans Nation will rise and be more aggressive than our enemies have ever been

hey i just had a question about the one point you made about foreign countries getting involved to divide is do you have a video or source on that? cus im geuinely curious about it.

I touched grass but I never gone outside often.

im going to need some citations on some of your assertions, gay george washington? i know that in 1947 christians changed pedastry to homosexuality in the bible, hence theyre still trying to equate the two. id love some sources to update my information.

Thankfully my first pride month after comming out (this one) was fine. Although obviously, I wish this blind hatred towards our community would stop, but oh well. All we can really do is unite to stand up against the bigotry and defend our rights.

sooooo, just like last year?

nice shirt *eats shirt* nom

im scared of the US

Funny enough, I posted that I made an LGBTQ+ flag in Animal Crossing and LGBTQ+ art on the first day of this year's Pride Month and I literally had many homophobic people attack me. They posted A LOT of crazy stuff that I won't say and I had to block them. Honestly, It hurt my feelings as I'm actually Bisexual and Queer. Luckily, I was able to have the rest of the Month positive, but it did hurt to see that stuff.

I have yet to attend a pride event, I would still like to, but I am worried about the violence it might attract.

You know what they say. "United we stand Divided we fall"

I had a brother that was gay, my granddaughter is Bi. I would do anything for them. The hate towards the LGBT+ community makes me sad & angry. I tell people all the time, why hate it has absolutely no affect on your life. I try everyday to learn something new. I love the community. Thanka for all you do. ❤ 15:12

You can't imagine the amount of hate . Here in Morocco you are already dead if you are LGBTQ . It's horrible

im an open trans woman and have had a couple of false complaints filed against me the past couple of weeks. it's not like i wear a pride pin, i just have been too exhausted to shave. my latest false complaint happened today where the customer claims i smell like alcohol and im thinking to myself how i haven't touched it in weeks. offered to submit to a breathalyzer or a smell test while recording the conversation with management. thankfully management believes me this time as it was obvious i didn't have a drop of alcohol in me

it's so scary that even in safer areas, you can get yelled at or harassed for wearing some colors. i live in a safer area and one time when i was walking to a pride parade with a flag in my hand and i got yelled at by cars passing by. along with that, i am very obviously a minor. it's so sad that there is basically no entirely safe spaces for lqbtqia+ and bipoc people in this world. make an effort to buy from queer supporting places and try to ignore people around you that act bigoted or homophobic. (the best thing you can do to not give power to bigots is ignore them if you can.) stay safe, drink some water, and happy pride month to everyone!! :)

these last years of constantly hearing people want to genocide us have made me change my mind on guns, i feel like if i could at least have a way to attempt to defend myself when they come for me

i'd say they have a caveman understanding of gay people, but apparently even cavemen had the common decency to not be an asshole for no reason, i'll be sure to scare the elderly next year.

Yeahh the one pride event I went to had protesters at the end of it, which kinda sucked

as a Muslim, I just view pride people like normal, they are like people from other religions to me, their being lgbt+ doesn’t harm people

I knew being gay was never a sin in the first place. but not a single Christian listened.

I’m an Asexual and it really saddens me seeing people be cruel and hateful towards LGBTQ+ people. Stand up loud and proud everyone, the battle isn’t over and it won’t be for a long time. Keep up the fight.

The US is genuinely awful. Its supposedly a "free" country, meanwhile people are getting attacked for something as simple as the people they love.

These hateful people need to touch grass.

Idk about yall but that debate last night got me FREAKING OUT!

This year has been especially hard for me. Also having to deal with fellow LGBTQ+ people getting hate as well makes me upset. I haven’t felt safe in the queer community this year because I’m openly Jewish and have heard stories. But I don’t want them also getting hate for loving who they love, being who they are, or not feeling sexual or romantic feelings the way considered “normal”. I went to a Jewish pride event this year and it felt so good to feel safe. May all people who are in the closet or not get some time where they can feel safe and even if they’re not out feel valid.

In Mexico when I went to pride month some people gave me looks, but most people didn't cared much. It was a really chill pride month anyways. I feel things are more chill in Mexico than on the US.

May I share a positive vibe? Within a few weeks I'm buying a Pride flag. (Our Pride day differs) In Rotterdam (the Netherlands) the Pride week is canceled, but I will have the Pride flag on my balcony. My gay neighbours will smile cause I know they are a couple sweet gay men.

I saw protesters at the end of a literal CHRISTMAS PARADE I participated in.. it was a booth saying the rainbow belonged to god. I decided to point it out to the theater kids I was parading with, and we all proceeded to laugh at them.

I thought openly being gay was one of your constitutional rights. Freedom of expression without persecution. Weird how these mass group of folks who have “We The People” tattoos/shirts/bumper stickers have such an issue with yall just…. Existing and being happy

I feel like it’s strange how a lot of haters are so obsessed with LGBTQIA+ people, like why do you care so much about who I like??

I'm a non-binary bisexual living in Russia, celebrating pride online and by hanging out with my bestie, I also wear pins with my flags, good thing that nobody here,at least in my town,knows anything but the rainbow (unless they're queer themselves) so I don't get shamed/bullied or worse for it. There are (almost) no more queer books on the shelfs,I have bought a few before the relativrly recent laws were enforced. And yet "Good omens" is still sailing, perhaps bigots just think the main characters are just "very good friends" lol. I had to order my pins online from another country,btw. The laws so far (cos they can get worse) don't affect me too much,I still can live and have fun as before so the biggest problem for me right now is my father. My mom is relatively phobic too but far less than him and she's far more understanding,getting more accepting of the new things year by year, she's mostly just not informed enough and no used to queerness, she's alright with gays existing but she reeeeeally wants grandkids so when she found out I'm bi she was mad cos she was afraid that she wouldn't get any :p Even though I'm dating an opposite sex person for 4 years now (2 years back then but still). I can see her becoming supportive eventually :) I love her and she supports me in literally everything else,including me being goth with all the heavy make up, she lets me wear whatever (I'm 20) while my father (I'm afab) was yelling at me for wearing a corset even though it was on top of a long sleeve shirt with no cleavage and I had long pants too. He said that I looked very vulgar and he wouldn't let mw go outside,I was 18 back then. He even called my mom expecting her to support him but she didn't even understand what was the issue😂 My father is irredeemable in my eyes cos he's sexist, homophobic and transphobic, hates plenty nationalities,claims he's not racist cos he likes one black and one chinese actors while he still says plenty racist stuff, he hates on all religions that aren't christian and obvi justifies his hatred for the queers with his religion. He always thinks he's right and that he can't possibly make mistakes,he always starts arguments for no reason and overall I only still am attached to the version of him that I knew and loved as a kid, the current him only awakens negative feelings in me. Sorry for this essay of a rant, just wanted to share some things in a safe space❤

"Never stop fighting." My sword remains sharp, as do my skills. ... Happy Pride, one and all. Anyone up for some deathmatch in DooM Eternal?

The thing that I find really disturbing these days, is how homophobes wrap up their bigotry and a framing where they tell us that respect for differing opinions, as well as how people need to have an exchange of ideas. I find it disturbing, especially, because there are some progressives, who Will even get down on this level when dealing with homophobic bigots. All that being said, though, happy pride.

I really hope things get better.. as a nonbinary person, I already have a hard enough time with my dysphoria and wanting to get affirmong care. This sucks and I hate seeing the bigots under any LGBTQ vidoes or trans creators content. It really makes me sad.

I'm an ally grandmother who wears my support and pride any time I travel.💙💚💛💜....it makes me so sad that anyone is treated less in this world

Im a closeted trans boy to my family and most of my friends and I’m really scared for 2025. I don’t want to be punished for being me.

Society created their rules to please the majority but those rules aren't always right. At least the Western countries have let people legally love anyone they like until someone is harmed but in my country, we aren't allowed to marry, we are allowed to love though unlike many other countries with their stupid government following pseudo-rules of their religion which aren't even mentioned in their religion.

Im sorry you all had/have to experience that, I'm not really Lgbtq myself but for what its worth you guys have my support.

Thank you for these powerful words, Matt. It may be hard being LGBT+ in a world that is still very heteronormative (and monosexist), but it is SO important that we have each other, allies and the community in general, regardless of how we identify, to lift each other up in support and love when those who are hateful bring us down- they may try, but they will never succeed. Love from a panromantic bisexual person! Enjoy what's left of Pride (and allies, I see you and thank you). Going to my first Pride event on Sunday at 29 years old, and the self-confidence, with the help of many support groups and my affirming church, made loving and respecting my identity possible to feel comfortable enough to go and volunteer for my church. Thanks again, the community needs people like you!

I will always have a pride flag proudly displayed in the window of my house and a pride flag proudly placed on the cb radio antenna on top of my car just to show people that we will always be here and we will never go back into the closet. LOVE IS LOVE I will always be a safe person to come out to.

It’s kind of jarring to me that people are this upset about pride month when a few years ago no one I knew even cared I also still think it’s ridiculous that Christians still think being gay means going to hell. I know there where only like 100,000 people back then so reproduction was a serious problem But even being straight back then was considered to be unnatural. Since they thought it was only ok to be like that to reproduce But there’s plenty of straight people that are active in relationships and still have a lot of love to give and people don’t seem too upset about that Then again I tried telling some of my bi and pan friends that “I feel bad since I don’t think there’s a healthy environment for this kind of stuff yet” and some people listening thought I was homophobic or portraying gay people as being violent which also isn’t true so maybe I’m another idiot I feel like people aren’t so much debating about right or wrong anymore, but more so debating on how to make the world more enjoyable. And honestly I quite like that more but it’s a really weird situation to be in since we’re so used to black and white thinking that if we don’t understand or care about something we immediately think it’s a bad thing It’s weird because I feel like I can’t even joke about these things right now because I wouldn’t even know how to go about it As long as no one’s getting hurt I don’t care what you do with your private life

I was fr called the f-word, a tw@t and that I should di3 before my 30s(for being openly non-binary and aroace) on tiktok's comment section, and tiktok done nothing abt it, like wtf

I'm sure some gay people WERE born in 1970.😊 At least one gay person was born today.

Double down, never quit. Keep pride until the final end! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I dont get why people feel so offended because of a small percent of the population that dont hurt anyone

I am so scared to be trans and bisexual. I am so scared to leave my house now. Ive developed agoraphobia because of the transphobes and homophobes being so loud. Im so scared i will be killed because someone out there hates me enough to take my life. But here, on this channel, i feel just a little safer. Thank you.

It also sucks that it’s also happening from within our own community………..

I was a anti LGBTQ person. Not anymore, i changed my mind completely after doing research about what makes people what they are/feel like. It all make sense now to me. There is a huge mix of the DNA with XX female and XY man and alot of combinations like XXX, XXY, XYY ect. And also combinations that is mixed with eachother. I feel so ashamed for what i was before. But now i'm 100% supportive to the LGBTQ community. Research and knowledge is very important about this subject.

With progress there is always pushback…I’m hopeful this hate too will pass

So my birthday is the anniversary of D-Day, which is in the beginning pride month, and we end the month with an important anniversary for my community. Interesting Edit: no, the US doesn't come to the rescue whenever another country is attacked. They only come to the rescue if it monetarily interests them, and oftentimes are the ones to attack.

It's like every year the hate towards our community grows. It's scary.

I glad I decided to watch this video, it’s terrifying how divided the US is becoming

Deadass, any Christian who holds hate in their hearts for anyone, isn’t doing Christianity the right way. Love thy neighbor, or love this 9.

In Russia, boomers are more afraid that LGBTQ+ people will live happily and peacefully than that healthcare is on the verge of extinction. It would be an ideal country for terf, but only then government are talking about banning abortions and already decriminalized domestic violence. In general, I have been watching in complete horror for several years of my growing up as my country turns into a nightmare. The law banning gender transition was passed about two weeks before I turned 18.I was ready to run away from my family, live on the street in order to get the necessary documents in time, but in the end I did'n had any time. I was just sitting, and waiting till i can legally by alcohol. I do not have any resources to move abroad and there is no way to influence what is happening. Now, all I can do is support other queer people around me and not expect the best. There will be no better future for a lot of people, they just won't live enough to see it.

I don't care about them. To hate in such a way means they hate themselves. They are jealous that we are free to love and do so passionately. We are free to throw away their traditions of conformity and express ourselves as humans as humans were meant to be...diverse and unique. Jesus would walk alongside us in Pride because as he said...I give you a new commandment to love one another and by that love you prove your love for me as I have loved you. To them love is sin. To us love is love and nothing is stronger.

Why are we still suprised? June is pride month and queerphobia month at this point I've been avoiding any social media for the whole month of June for years now cause all the sweet pride month content I wish to see is drowned in a see of queerphobia

Vote against Project 2025!

As an Iranian trans girl (still in the closet) i feel like I’m suffocating while trying to live under this theocratic dictatorship, though Iranian society is starting to become more open minded and accepting after the WLF movement which is nice.

All bullies are cowards

LOVE WILL NEVER DIE ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This is so sad 😢 for us ngl this year sucked for us

I'm 14 and I came out as trans this year and when I go back to school I'm scared to tell the teachers and everyone else about it I want to tell everyone so they call me he and by dax but I'm scared I'm gonna get made fun of and the teacher hurting my feelings because I live in the south and not a lot of people here are supportive of me I don't know what to do or how to tell people

Listening to this as I finish up my pride month art. Thanks for the background audio!

My pride flag got stolen 4 times this month 😩

I remember in 2019, there was a first Pride march organised in one of the towns in Poland, called Białystok. The people marching there were attacked and chased down by people who just wanted to hurt them, and a lot of arrests were made afterwards, but the event itself shook the entire LGBTQ+ community here in Poland. I immediately thought of it after the intro here.

This year I actually came to terms with my sexuality (bisexual) and it feels like for me that more and more people have turned against the LGBTQ+ community cuz they just cannot accept that we are all comfortable in our own skin

I am from India and I am Gay, one known person to me and my mom just came out as Trans and another known person to us came out as Lesbian. The reaction of my mom to those was very surprising (I am not out yet) she said if I were to come out as Trans ever she would abandon me although she didn't said anything about lesbian/gay. I am the only child of my parents and I am very close to my mom, she can never live without me but when I heard if I were to come out as Trans she would abandon me broke me into pieces because she might be having Anti-gay views too as here in India, they don't distinguish between Trans and Gays. 💔💔

Of course religion ruins everything good

I'm not going back in the closet.

It’s very very frustrating to me that I cannot afford to properly protest anti-trans laws in my state. I know for a fact I could bring a lot of attention to the bathroom laws if I just went and FOLLOWED them because I would definitely be arrested for that. But besides the fact that I’d very likely be assaulted as well, and who knows the consequences to that til it happens (again), I need to keep my job, I can’t afford a lawyer, I need to make tips as many days a week as possible to pay rent bc it’s too damn high and business is too damn slow (and a lot of people take advantage of servers and don’t pay us properly). This is how they perpetuate this stuff. How many people are in a position to get assaulted and thrown in jail voluntarily and continue their lives just fine?

I'm so tired of this level of hatred. I don't even care if there's few of them, i just wanna crawl into a hole and give up. I most likely won't have a good future anyway, so why bother?

Thank you professor pride for everything! I'll keep fighting, till the day I die if I have to. I pro-ise.

Thank you for speaking for us, we can do this together and fight that project 2025 doesn’t happen.

You`re correct. We weren`t born in 1970. I was born in 1962. 😆🤣😂😜

im so scared for my future i just wanna be a girl

Just because things aren't all bad doesn't mean things aren't VERY BAD right now. Yeah, the ducks had babies, but the leopard, tiger, and bear are still out of their enclosures and are currently tearing the zoo and its patrons apart.

I went to a pride event without any problems or protests so that's good

I began MY lifetime od 'fighting a decade before Stonewall and in 1993 my partner and I became THE FIRST same-sex couple to file a federal discrimination suit naming the AG of Arizona and the Clerk of the Pima County Court for denying us a marriage license and were given the Stonewall 'Family of Pride' award at the 1993 San Diego Pride Festival.

Okay so, I’m only gonna comment on the history part since the rest of the video I don’t have a problem with and agree with. But when it comes to LGBTQ history, especially with trans people, it’s complicated. People like Alexander the Great, Baron Von Steuben, Tchaikovsky, or Elagabalus (that “trans Roman emperor”), could be considered LGBTQ indeed, Alexander could be thought of as either bisexual or pansexual. But when it comes to people such as Elagabalus, it’s a lot more complicated due to the culture he grew up in where it was basically normal for the men to occasionally act like women. However, when it comes to people such as Steuben or Washington, it’s very hard to say since people didn’t really define themselves as our modern term of “gay”. Honestly, I highly doubt that Washington was gay since not only was he married to a woman, but he was also happy in that relationship. As for Steuben, it’s more believable that he was homosexual because he was never married nor really showed any affection towards women, however that can just mean he was asexual or aromantic, not necessarily gay per se Also, that whole “was accepted though-out history part” is not entirely right; because it really depends when and where we’re talking. In say, Ancient Greece, it was accepted by some yes, but not by all. Some city-states did not like gay people while some did. As for Rome, again it depends on the era, like for example, both the Roman and Byzantine empires did not recognize marriage between two males or females, and there were a lot of people in those empires, probably more in the Byzantine empire, who saw being homosexual as a sin. But anyways, good video overall, I just wanted to clear up the history part. And if I got anything wrong I’d be happy to correct myself.