Straight Pride

Recently, straight prides happened in many cities of the world, from New York to London. Will Madrid be the new capital of heterosexuality ? That is the hope of the ex-president of the association of the victims of terrorism in Spain. Some days ago, he made an announcement to promote the straight pride in Madrid, sustained by the group on Facebook. “dear hetero,” says the message “are you fed up not to have your day of celebration because of your sexual orientation, in the middle of XXI th century ? demand a day for your straight pride !” at this date, more than 8000 people answered to the group and suggest some discussions in the forum, which wants to be a heterosexual enclave and promote the idea of a worldwide straight pride. “We’ll show what we are capable of”, says a slogan. The main debate is about the date to choose. Some want it to be at the same date than Mother’s day, some other on Valentine’s day. For some other mothers, who pose on a photograph, child in the arms, they should organize this event the day after the gay pride. (to fight the gay pride ?). Some say, because It is an international event, It should be a day when It is warm, in June for example. But at this time of the year, in Argentina for example, it's freezing cold ! Some others say : “why should we have only one day per year ? we could have a day per month, It would be totally justified”. But what is the straight pride ? It is in fact a little bit like the coming out of heterosexuality. Since some years, this movement organizes itself from the USA : straight coming out and demonstrate in the street to express their pride to be what they are. Our first reaction would be mockery. This initiative looks absurd and ridiculous. And we could talk about the strange behaviour of the Americans. But this pride is written in a context and a history. It plays with social groups, personalities and important political objectives. Above all, It appears as a symptom of a new situation in a socio-sexual device in our occidental world. In fact, this straight pride reveals something. From that point, we maybe should take it seriously. The medias started to give interest to that story when a sixteen years old student came one morning in 2001 at school with a t-shirt written on it “straight pride”. He explained that he wanted to react against its school which promotes integration of gays and lesbians. He said that he has no hatred against homosexuals and was absolutely opposed to attacks against them but God could not approve their life style. More than an attack against gays and lesbians, It was a support to heterosexual cause. The t-shirt was forbidden by the principal of the college. From this point, the American Family Association Center for Law went to court in the name of the student. The federal judge gave his verdict and for him, behind the message, there is a kind of intolerance but no element could let think that this t-shirt is an obstacle to the correct way of the school. So in those conditions, there was no purpose to forbid it. The young’s mother said that her son probably launched a movement. She was not completely wrong. This concept of the straight pride was not invented at this date. But because of this story, It became a symbolic moment. Those who explain for years that heterosexuality is threatened in the United States (because of the political decisions made by the government and with the gay and lesbian agenda in general) had for the first time the feeling that they could reach their aim. From their point of view, heterosexuality is discriminated and we try to censure it with the story of the t-shirt at school. They even say we wanted to forbid the access to the 4th amendment which protect the United States free speech. Finally, heterosexuality could exploit Its rights. The people who went to court said that It was a remarkable victory for free speech at school and a good step to show the hypocrisy of the tolerance’s agenda. They said as well that when the politically correct talks about tolerance, they only promote it for those who have deviant and destructive behaviours for the society. But the Court recognized that true tolerance is tolerance of all and not only for a few. It’s not only a story of a t-shirt but for the first time the American justice recognized the straight pride concept. Keep your eyes open.