Pride month is a necessary response to ongoing prejudice and a lack of societal understanding of LGBTQ+ issues.

“the reason why is because it's people like you who don't understand why we really have it”

Pride month is necessary to provide representation and protection for the LGBTQ+ community in a society that often marginalizes them.

“it's not really about sexuality it's about allowing people who are like myself who don't feel like they're being represented or being protected in a world in society where people like Riley gets a platform to spew misinformation”

Hayley Kiyoko asserts that people should not be ashamed of their identity and that representation is crucial for validation.

“I think I'm on board with you like having a movie where it's like no, it's not shameful to be yourself.”

Pride Month has been hijacked by corporations for shameless and insincere virtue signaling.

“I've been on this case for quite a while that I think the pride the whole idea of pride I loved it when it started. It was a pride day. Great. there are lots of days in the year and I can happily sign up to it. Now it's like a full-on month and it's been completely hijacked by the corporate world in”

Corporate entities are not truly committed to LGBTQ+ issues and only participate in Pride Month as a form of marketing pandering.

“they were never like actually invested in uh you know defending gay people or anything like that um also Tim pool and everyone else is so [ __ ] stupid there are seasonal or there are quarterly earning reports and other Market forces that contribute to like targets uh stock price falling”

Corporations do not actually care about the queer and trans community and only use Pride for profit.

“Corporations have very little interest in the queer and trans community. I I'm a queer trans woman. I've seen them marketing to me more and more over the years. And the moment the very moment that we stop becoming profitable, they drop us.”

Sexual orientation is innate rather than a choice, and he identifies himself as an ally to the LGBTQ community.

“I've never thought that I think who you are attracted to is innate to who you are that is genetic and that's that's that I've thought that my whole life”

The speaker believes that a child coming out to a parent should be supported rather than controlled or punished.

“I feel like you coming out to her, you have one of two options. You either treat you like and take everything away, which doesn't change the outcome, or support you. And like I obviously, you're young. You can have rules and boundaries, but like you know, like to still have that like open communicat”

A person's sexual orientation is an innate trait that is not a matter of personal choice.

“it's not like anyone who's gay is choosing to be gay right so like the way I the way I think about it is like like is there a certain food that you don't like or you just can't eat”

He suggests that increased media representation has allowed younger generations to express their identity more freely than in the past.

“I think now that like you open up Instagram and everyone's everything and everyone can express themselves any way they want to that people don't have to feel so restricted in this like straight jacket of how Society is trying to keep them labeled and moving them along the script”

The recent decline in queer identity among young people is evidence of a social contagion rather than a genuine shift in essential identity.

“Some of us have been suggesting that maybe the transgender identity is a social contagion and it's not some deeply rooted essential or biological aspect of identity.”