June is LGBT ‘Pride Month’ and Google won’t let you forget it
by Michael Brown, Christian Post:
It is now official, embedded on your Google calendar whether you like it or not. June 1 marks the beginning of LGBT “Pride Month,” and the only way to remove this notice is to remove all holiday announcements from the app. Thus says Google. (If Google did this before this year, I had not noticed it.)
To be sure, Google is consistent in its activism, at least to a point.
Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, while March 1 marks the first day of Women’s History Month. And May 1 is the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, while Nov. 1 marks the first day of American Indian Heritage Month. Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
Naturally, this begs the question of why there is no Jewish American Heritage (or History or Pride) month. Or (perish the thought!) White American Heritage (or History or Pride) month.
But for the moment, those questions are off-topic (although if you’re White, every day is White American Shame Day, especially if you are guilty of being a White male).
But this does underscore the large difference between being Black. Or female. Or Asian Pacific. Or Hispanic. Or American Indian. Versus identifying as lesbian. Or gay. Or bi. Or trans. Or queer. Or +.
The former identities are all grounded in the concrete realities of ethnicity, race and biology. The latter identities are grounded in self-perception and self-definition, as in the umbrella term “queer.”
Related Posts
Tags
Share This
