'Hetero Awesome Fest' planned for Idaho capitol during LGBTQ Pride Month

That's the gayest sounding name for a festival.
- Three cool dudes looking for other cool dudes who wanna hang out in their party mansion. Nothing sexual. Fitness encouraged. If you’re fat, you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, nothing sexual.
  
  That should be on a flyer, but it should have an attention grabbing shape. Like maybe a bicept.
- Most closeted thing I've ever heard.
- Yeah... Methinks the lady doth protesteth too much
- First thing that came to mind for me as well.
  All the brodoser owners gonna have an orgy.

Gonna be a lot of gross people that no one wants to fuck at that event.
I guarantee it.
- What if they fuck each other?
  
  That's... how Conservatives are made.
  
  Then it would just be pride month ? That’d be ok I guess assuming everyone consents
  
  while talking about how not gay it is
- Yep as a queer I wish to reassure them, I wouldn't touch any of them with a pole
  
  Not even someone else's pole.

I mean, ok. Pride isn't exclusionary. Most gay people have straight parents, siblings, friends and so on. If you feel the need to celebrate being straight, that's cool. If you think you're a victim because you are straight then I might suggest some therapy.

Hundred bucks says the grinder app's going to get a lot of traffic that weekend. There's going to be very busy bus station bathrooms, and maybe Airport bathrooms? I don't know if they have airports in Idaho.
- Self-loathing is a bitch
- Yep profile name "ImNotGay69" and will cry when he finishes

You know what would be the fucking best thing ever? If everyone showed up and was totally supportive. Like those hateful bigots are all marching and hollering and then here comes the pride parade with hetero banners and signs saying "Heteros Are Awesome!" and other really positive shit. And they'll be all like "We don't want your support," and we'll be like "Fuck you, pride is for all!" And maybe like one or two of them would be like, "Oh..." and then the world is a better place for a moment.
- For a moment I thought you were headed inthe direction of LGBTQ rebranding "All Lives Matter".
  Like some hateful biggot is chanting "DOWN WITH QUEERS" and then the Pride Parade marches in, and starts supporting them. And the hate parade tries to resist, and then the Pride people start saying they love everybody, and ALL lives matter. And then the hateful side says "WAIT! NO! THATS OURS, AND IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT!" And then the Pride people say "Too late! We've rebranded it now! We love you, baby!" And the hateful people are just confused like "what.....what just happened??"
  
  Or we can show up and convince them that there is an ongoing class war and politely let them know they've been used to fight themselves and that we have more people on our side of the class war.
- I mean, my first thought was “Aww… sweety… yes, you are awesome. Have a cookie and let mommy watch her stories.”

Honestly, if done without any hate to LGBTQ+, I'm all for it. We need a nice hetero representation, and hetero relationships are beautiful. This does include trans people forming hetero couples, and hetero-demi-/asexuals, and many more, so it can even intersect with LGBTQ+ in some cases.
All relationships and sexualities are beautiful, and hetero ones are no exception.
But I doubt it'll be done this way.
- But I doubt it’ll be done this way.
  It almost certainly will be a hate fest. These are people who think they're being persecuted because other people are allowed to live their lives.
- id be ok with it as long as they don't push it in my face
  
  I don't want to walk past and see them holding hands or anything
- Yeah, I'd say, if hetero people need an excuse to have fun and celebrate something, I'm all for it. But I have a sneaky suspicion that this is going just going to be used as a hatefest towards LGBTQ+ people instead. I would love to be proven wrong but I have a feeling that straight cis people who are open minded and accepting and not bigots, aren't the ones who feel the need to go "what about straight pride / international men's day?" whenever anyone else gets a bit of attention.
  
  I'm cis-het and fully intend to go to the pride parade with friends in a different state. It's going to be a great time! Idk why the largest groups feel like they need extra special attention.
  
  On the other hand, the concerns themselves are real, and if they will be addressed in a way positive to everyone else, this will be great!
  So, we'll see. Under current administration, the risks for it derailing into the hate fest are quite high, but fingers crossed.
- Most likely no one shows up.
  
  Or worse, the intended demo shows up
- the point of pride is it’s about visibility: relationships in pop culture are almost entirely hetero… you just don’t see queer relationships at the ratio they exist in society… pride is all about celebrating the existence of queer existence and our relationships and culture
  if you add similar things for heterosexuals, it’s saying “we have everything most of the time and this 1 time where you’re seen, we want to be part of that as well”… or worse, want to draw attention away from it by being bigger
  
  I agree that hetero relationships get quite a lot of visibility, but it gets little positivity, which some people are quite sensitive to, especially among teenagers. Also, it enforces LGBTQ+ and cishets as two opposing sides, which they are not.
  Faced with (undoubtedly important) messages about how queer folks and their relationships are awesome and worthy of appraisal and attention, some of the hetero teens and even adults feel left out, like they're not "cool" for just being the default.
  Obviously, they are no less cool than anyone else, and their relationships are no less beautiful. And we need to talk about that too, in no way to silence the rest, but to underscore that truly any relation to gender and sexuality is equally valuable. The very pushback on LGBTQ+ is partly fueled by the resentment for this lack of hetero positivity, and we need to remove any ground for it.
  LGBTQ+ and cishets are not on the opposite sides, they are all parts of the same spectrum, and so any confrontations between the two are as odd as bisexuals attacking homosexuals. To translate this idea, we should include cishets into the same positivity movement, while remembering the groups inside LGBTQ+ are still unjustly discriminated against.
  
  We (white people) gave black people the shortest and shittiest month to celebrate their heritage which a segment of us still bitch about them celebrating a month meanwhile bitch every month is White Heritage Month and this is what a large segment of the population feels and you cannot argue with feelings.
  Why do they feel this way? Let's get to that and work to solve the problem.
- I want you to say the same thing about black history month so you can understand how ridiculous this is.
  
  What? Are you trying to say a white power march wouldn't be full of racist twats?

Pride: "equal rights for all".
Straight pride: "all people are equal, but straights are more equal than others".
- These things always feel like someone shouting “I have a birthday too!“ at someone else’s birthday party.
  
  I like that analogy, might use it one day (⁀ᗢ⁀)
  
  Next the WASPs are going to demand a St George's day parade to celebrate English-American culture

This sounds like something a group of Incels would plan to get their buttocks to accidentally touch the buttocks of another young man.
- And then like 3 people show up, because of course. They're incels. They were never going to go anywhere.

Honestly, there’s no punchline better than this just being a thing.
- The turnout will be about 10 people.
  
  I dunno... there are a lot of hateful shitbag people out there

I'm a straight dude and would love to socially meet more hetero women... but this sounds like the lamest and (ironically) gayest event I've ever heard of. Guaranteed it's going to be filled with ugly, un-fun, angry people counter-protesting. You know the type, critically concerned with what the fuck other consenting adults do...?

Straight people celebrating being the ones to perpetuate the human race give argument for not perpetuating the human race
- I'm hetero, but I'm also happily child free.
  But also I wouldn't attend this event. If people want to be gay, be gay. If people want to be christian, be christian. If people want to be a dinosaur, be a dinosaur.
  I don't give a fuck what other people do. As long as they're respectful to everybody, and don't hurt anybody, that's cool. You be you.
  Except for Andy Dick, whose last name is apt.
  
  False advertising! I want to be big strong fearsome dinosaur. Instead am fat disabled furry. 0/10 I'll leave an angry review on yelp! And the bbb will be hearing about this!
  
  I disagree. Fuck christians and all the fucking damage they do.
  
  Happy child free, may I ask how old you are roughly? Because to me it seems that this number and that happiness correlate strongly inversely. People are more and more lonely. Less family, fewer siblings, no children, ...
  There sure are people of any age that are happy without children (or generally with or without anything). But since you mention this and me seeing that correlation: I have to ask. If you are 30 that is essential meaningless, like saying you do not care about pensions. If you are 60 both statements carry a lot more weight.

My generation called that kind of party a “sausage fest.”
And not the fun kind.
- No patties at that sausage fest

Grinder crashes immediately

It sounds like the most cringe thing ever. So yeah, let them do it, I wanna see it (mostly to point and laugh).
- I'll see you there! I'll be the one snogging random women while wrapped in a pride flag

is it just a bunch of white guys standing around talking about how potato's are neat
- Fuck. Now I want potatoes.

I’ve never seen it, but I’m already sure their flag sucks.
- They hate rainbows so it's just a white flag.
  They should name it the White Pride Parade.
  
  Actually, there has been a straight ally flag for quite a while now it's not bad
  So i looked it up and that without the rainbow 'a' is actually on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag
  It's resemblance to old prison uniforms is quite ironic:
- It'll just be a poorly-drawn bicep (for manliness) that looks suspiciously like a cock and balls.

He, more like hetero sausage fest
Ayooo
my wife came up with this

"No hate at all, it's a love thing."
But also LGTBQ+ people are "disgusting and criminal".

Sounds like some insecurities need reaffirmation...

You all heard it. This year Hedonism will be held on the front lawn of the Idaho capitol building.

Fyre Festival 3? They didn't even have 2 yet

It would be great to see them do this, march around with their "straight pride" bullshit, only to have the LGBTQ+ community cheering them on with signs about the first amendment and acceptance.
Really drill into anyone who hasn't been paying attention, who the good guys and bad guys here are.
Probably a pipe dream since this would 100% be more about hate than acceptance.

Being a bit of a pragmatist.
I'm probably as liberal as they come but I'm also older. When I do vote compasses I'm always square in the social and fiscal liberal columns.
That said, I am friends with people from all walks of life and I can tell you the general consensus is that things have swung too far to the left and what we are seeing is a swing back to the right. It's all a pendulum. I've had this conversation with pretty much every one from every background so it's not just a white people thing. People need to understand that people from many different backgrounds being their own flavour of hatred and bigotry to the conversation. Asians are notoriously racist. Black people are notoriously homophobic (my African girlfriend doesn't like my earrings or the fact I wear colourful socks for Christsake).
What truly amazes me is how fast and how hard the pendulum has swung the other direction in America and damn does it not look good. In Canada it's swinging right but far more measured and the hope is not much farther.
Even as progressive as I am my daughter has an after school program called "Girls Inc" and I have thought to myself why don't my sons have a Boys Inc to which the response in my head is it's still a mans world and if I tried to make one I'd be accused of something negative I'm sure so I never pursue it.
I will say right now if the expression is "a rising tide lifts all ships" we have not been paying adequate attention to the ships that are not rising as fast or as much. This is what is causing the pendulum swings IMHO and without addressing the deep underlying and systemic issues it's only going to get worse.

Please be all allies... Please
- It'll be filled to the brim with closeted gay men. Not allies, but not hetero either.
- That would be ironic if more pro-LGBTQ people showed up and paraded instead.
  
  Or the queerest bunch show up in their best rendition of straight acting, but you can tell the act is coming apart at the seams for shits & giggles.
- Article says they guy putting it on is making an event to celebrate "family values". So, no.
  
  Family values... Like men and women having sex? Just call it "family fest" or something if that's the case

Being straight should be illegal

This restaurant owner sure sounds Proud.