Well, it is possible to be proud of yourself without making a huge spectacle out of it, but my stance is pretty much just "eh sure". I mean yes, the fact that pride parades can happen without people flipping their lids and being like "OH NO, HARMFUL LEVELS OF GAYDIATION WILL FAG UP MY DNA" is definitely a good thing (disregarding blatant trolls of course), but on the other hand, i'm also almost entirely indifferent about other peoples sexual orientation unless they want to get intimate, so i don't feel any particular need to know, be it in a game or meatspace.

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Ingame i feel that it will be annoying seeing 1-100 gays or others ruining your game to talk about their rights and how they want the world to be more peaceful.
Even out-of-game i think it's disgusting seeing those people walk around looking like retards yelling and shit and ruining a perfectly good rainbow.

I personally find nothing wrong... Yeah you find it a little odd (as do I) but they aren't doing anything wrong. Leave them alone and go about your business

Someone shouldnt be spreading their pride online in general. It's one of the few things that annoys me at all. They're begging to get assraped with insults as well. (insert it's time to stop meme here.)

I agree with ddos but he didn't use enough meme


And fruitcandy I don't think being straight really matters because I doubt every single gay doesn't want to see a lgbt pride show everywhere they go

What, because people are assholes? That is EXACTLY why LGBT pride parades exist. Straight pride parades don't exist because everyone automatically assumes you're straight unless otherwise informed, and saying "hello i'm straight" is likely to elicit a response similar to "ok", whereas saying "hello i'm gay" can elicit a response anywhere in between "ok" and "SPAWN OF SATAN I WILL STAB YOU TO DEATH". If people thought about LGBT with the same kind of indifference as heterosexuality, there would be no need for fear or pride parades.

THAT SAID, as a bi dude (yes you read that right, big shocker etc), i don't feel the need to participate in any pride parades or tell everyone i meet about my sexuality. It just isn't relevant unless people want to get really intimate, so to me it has the same level of importance as the shape of my feet; only relevant in very specific situations.

Alas, it is not without a tinge of fear that i state such things openly, because lord knows how many weird people will suddenly jump down my throat for it. I'm not ashamed of myself, but i don't care much for being harassed. :v

also dear god man take it easy with the formatting


Hue, all i do in my bedroom is to sleep, browse the internet and draw dumb things, I WISH i could say i've actually tried things out. :v

But anyhoo, what people assume per default varies per individual. Some, such as yourself, don't assume anything, which is probably also the most respectful. I personally just use straight as a default value since it's the most common orientation, but rest assured that i mean no offense, and that i won't mind if you're actually a transgendered pansexual or whatever, it's all perfectly fine in my book (it's like how right handedness is more common than left handedness). Other jackasses assume that being straight is a given and the only right thing to be, and that LGBT folks are abominations of nature that need to be put down. It's that last group i have a problem with, because they're jackasses, and that's not just because i technically fall under LGBT myself.

Well, i also strongly doubt that most people actually think about it normally (nor should they), but y'know, subconscious assumptions. We make A LOT of those, and many of them don't even pertain to other humans. For example, we've come to assume that birds fly away the second we get anywhere near them, so we might be surprised if a blackbird doesn't even flinch when we pass by.