End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough

Gareth Roberts

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/end-of-the-rainbow-prides-fall-cant-come-soon-enough/

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spectator/20250531/281827174693942

Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians
and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days
and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion coincided with the addition of all the letters after the first three. This is when it became a jamboree not
only of boring homosexuality – very old hat – but just about anything
else that its purveyors consider unconventional, ranging from wearing
wigs to not fancying any kind of sex at all. Every peccadillo was deemed
worthy of a flag and a float.

But the wheels finally seem to be coming off the Pride clown car. What
was mushrooming is now shrivelling. Several newly Reform-led councils – including Kent and Durham – have taken down Pride flags from their
municipal properties and won’t be flying them during the high days, or
any others. The Times reports that Whitehall has banned civil servants
from buying Pride lanyards. This is supposedly part of a ‘crackdown on waste’ – but it’s conveniently timely.

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