straight pride

English

Etymology

Coined modelled on gay pride.

Noun

straight pride (uncountable)

  1. (alt-right) A display of pride in one's heterosexuality, as a reactionary movement to gay pride.
    • 2010, Erin McHugh, Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics Are You Swallowing?, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia.
    • 2015, Vincent Terrace, Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996–2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
      After being arrested and humiliated for being straight, Owen organizes a Straight Pride Parade for himself and others to come out of the closet.
    • 2019 July 1, Nico Lang, “The distraction of Straight Pride, as explained by LGBTQ activists and historians”, in Vox News[1], archived from the original on 1 July 2019:
      In June, a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America announced it was planning a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. The group says they requested the same route as the Boston Pride Parade, which marched from Copley Square to Government Square on June 8.
    • 2019 October 9, Asa Seresin, “On Heteropessimism”, in The New Inquiry, New York, N.Y.: The New Inquiry, Inc.:
      Many of those who seized the opportunity to mock Straight Pride and its appropriately drab flag were, unsurprisingly, queer, yet a sizable number of straight people could also be found in the fray.
    • 2023, Hannah Ray Lambert, “Father sues school district for refusing to display straight pride flag alongside Progress Pride flag”, in Fox News:
      A Colorado father is suing the state's largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a "straight pride" flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children's Denver school.

Usage notes

  • The usage of the slogan is often considered offensive to LGBTQ people.

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References

  • Straight Pride”, in Hatepedia, Online Hate Research and Education Project, launched 2022