My company announced this last month that employees can take a day off as PAID time off in order to march in the local Pride parade.
The urge to buy a rainbow wig, a red clown nose and a bicycle horn and to march as Honkler was very hard to resist.
The potential for trolling the LBGQT crowd with Honkler is massive. Sadly I knew that marching as Honkler would probably get me fired because there was going to be a large number of people from my work there.
I had to satisfy myself with referring to the movement as "LGBA" ...that's what they used to call themselves back in the 90s and the "A" stood for "Allies". I knew that they would just have to correct me. "Oh no... we changed it to be inclusive to the Q and the T. It's LGBQTLMOPXYZ now..." to which I would respond "You removed the 'A' for 'Allies'?!? That's kind of fucked up." and walk away. Did it all month long and I could tell that it hit close to home. It even lead to a real conversation once about how they feel the LGBQT movement has been hijacked and is hostile to straits.
My company announced this last month that employees can take a day off as PAID time off in order to march in the local Pride parade.
The urge to buy a rainbow wig, a red clown nose and a bicycle horn and to march as Honkler was very hard to resist.
The potential for trolling the LBGQT crowd with Honkler is massive. Sadly I knew that marching as Honkler would probably get me fired because there was going to be a large number of people from my work there.
I had to satisfy myself with referring to the movement as "LGBA" ...that's what they used to call themselves back in the 90s and the "A" stood for "Allies". I knew that they would just have to correct me. "Oh no... we changed it to be inclusive to the Q and the T. It's LGBQTLMOPXYZ now..." to which I would respond "You removed the 'A' for 'Allies'?!? That's kind of fucked up." and walk away. Did it all month long and I could tell that it hit close to home. It even lead to a real conversation once about how they feel the LGBQT movement has been hijacked and is hostile to straits.
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