Pride Month & Children: Parents Wary of LGBT Ideology

So far, at this year’s Pride parades, we’ve seen partial nudity, twerking, packets of lube tossed from floats, men in fetish and animal costumes whipping one another, and signs promoting “sex work.” In 2022, none of this is particularly shocking. What remains controversial, however, is that in each instance children were present.

A condition of equality is that you’re treated the same as everyone else. However, one of the central dilemmas of the LGBTQ+ movement is that the aim of equality has already been achieved. The revolutionaries want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to be accepted as normal but continue to be recognized as provocative and in-your-face. Involving children allows them to have it both ways.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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So far, at this year’s Pride parades, we’ve seen partial nudity, twerking, packets of lube tossed from floats, men in fetish and animal costumes whipping one another, and signs promoting “sex work.” In 2022, none of this is particularly shocking. What remains controversial, however, is that in each instance children were present.

A condition of equality is that you’re treated the same as everyone else. However, one of the central dilemmas of the LGBTQ+ movement is that the aim of equality has already been achieved. The revolutionaries want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to be accepted as normal but continue to be recognized as provocative and in-your-face. Involving children allows them to have it both ways.