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Really I take no issue with any of those except partly the first one.
2. Someone's trying to dictate to me, how I should feel about "it".
No one should dictate another’s feelings period. Pride is about my feelings and others like me. Has nothing to do with anything else.
3. I'm expected to revere a flag in which I have no personal interest.
Again pride and flags are important to those of us in the marginalized group. It literally has nothing to do with anyone else. Same as two… no one should dictate someone else’s feelings period.
Okay, so that’s the easy stuff. Now let’s unpack the first one.
1. "It" is being thrust at me, intruding into my personal space.
If you mean public gay sex, I agree. Any public sex including hetero should not be pushed on unwilling audiences. However, this type of statement and statements like it, have often meant that you don’t want to be exposed to anything about someone’s orientation that makes you feel uncomfortable… and we need to just go back in the closet. Almost my entire life I’ve had to be exposed to heteronormative PDA, such as kissing, hand holding, hugging of opposite sex partners and seen no representation of my own or people like me. If it’s wrong, then it’s all wrong. I don’t want to be exposed to Jimmy and Susie’s Mum and Da and their simple expressions of love any more than you do my girlfriend and I’s. However, I don’t mind either.
This may not be where you were going with this comment but it definitely needs clarification as it has been used as a dog whistle for passive aggressive hate.
