Annual events can still be ignored if you don’t like it.
Unfortunately, such celebrations can lead to alcohol and overstepping boundaries to affect others’ boundaries. I don’t see why this should impact feelings towards Pride any more than boozy concert goers or Friday night drunken louts acting like idiots. Despite them acting out, we don’t get so irate about festivals, concerts or nightclubs.
I would like to see Pride be more family friendly, since children go, and feel that kink people need to be ostracised. I know of many gay people, through interacting with them or reading their opinions, and they don’t like how Pride seems a lot more extravagent now (it alienates them as they say their sexuality is just an aspect of them, and they don’t go with the overly camp nature of some of it). That said, I don’t see how this can’t be met with reasonable accommodations and not binning them off altogether. They do form a celebration of acceptance for a minority group who have been downtrodden, and still are in many parts of the world.
