The month of June was first designated “Pride Month” in 1999 by President Bill Clinton. When Barack Obama became president, he modified it to be officially recognized as LGBT Pride Month. When Joe Biden took office, he proclaimed June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, which leads many to wonder if all letters of the alphabet will eventually be included in the title of this month-long celebration of aberrant sexual behavior.

While allegedly established to honor the right of LGBT persons to live a “dignified life,” a right they already had under existing laws, this recognition has helped foster an ever more extreme agenda. LGBT indoctrination has spread from the colleges and universities throughout K-12 education, and the ideology has co-opted the business sector, politics, the military services, churches, and virtually all other American institutions. Along with this mainstreaming of their narrative, some observers charge that the LGBT lobby has been given special rights.

Pride Month activities

As the month of June 2023 began, parents of students at Saticoy Elementary School in Los Angeles protested a planned Pride Month event, arguing that LGBT issues should be left to parents, not the schools. At issue was a scheduled pride assembly at the school, where, among other pro-LGBT activities, a book about “families” with two moms or two dads was to be read. Many parents objected to the assembly.

MSN.com reported that protestors carried signs reading “parental choice matters,” “stop grooming our kids,” and “leave our kids alone.” Counter protestors waved various iterations of the pride flag. While the protest was reportedly “peaceful” overall, a few heated clashes broke out between the opposing groups.

One parent told a local news station that “the school should not be teaching children about any sexual topics.” Another said he did not bring his children into the world “for a teacher to explain [to them] what is gay — or what two men or two women do. Certain things should be left to the parents to decide whether they want their kids to be exposed to it or not — at least at a certain age.”

In response to the protest, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) issued a statement skirting the issue and tacitly approving of the assembly, which was allegedly “optional” for students:

• As part of our engagement with school communities, our schools regularly discuss the diversity of the families that we serve and the importance of inclusion. This remains an active discussion with our school communities and we remain committed to continuing to engage with families about this important topic. Families are always encouraged to discuss important topics with their children and families may also contact their schools for more information about any school programs or activities.

The statement effectively brushed off parental concerns and intimated that pride events would proceed. But parents and some elected officials are not giving in to the LGBT juggernaut.

At Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, a planned drag show for kids in honor of Pride Month was cancelled by the Pentagon after Florida Representative Matt Gaetz grilled Pentagon officials about the show as well as the drag queen story hours taking place on U.S. military bases around the world.

Breitbart News obtained a screenshot of a post on the Nellis Facebook page announcing the event’s cancellation, which read: “The Nellis LGBTQ+ Pride Council is saddened to inform you that we are no longer able to host our annual Pride Month Drag Show on Nellis AFB. We have received notification that the DoD has directed Commanders not to host Drag events on military installations.”

The base listed other Pride Month events that were not drag shows, including a “Paint with Pride event, a color run at the base gym, a mixer, and a commemoration walk.”

In response to Gaetz’s questioning of military leaders in March, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley claimed they were unaware of any drag queen activities happening on military bases. Gaetz presented news articles proving that such events were indeed taking place, but Austin and Milley said these were “not something that the Department funds.” NBC News.com reported, however, that the drag show “was approved by Air Force leaders,” but that “consistent with Secretary Austin’s congressional testimony,” Air Force commanders “have been directed to either cancel or relocate these events to an off-base location.”

On Twitter, Gaetz and his supporters declared the event’s cancellation a “huge victory” for parents and taxpayers. He tweeted: “Drag shows should not be taking place on military installations with taxpayer dollars PERIOD!”

The fruits of transgenderism

On May 31, an Oklahoma mother filed suit against the Edmond Public Schools after her daughter was attacked by a biological male in the girls’ restroom. Claiming to be a girl, the male student “regularly used the girls’ bathroom” according to the lawsuit.

The mother, Theresa Gooden, states in her suit that her 15-year-old daughter was severely beaten last fall by the 17-year-old male student, and that the school district was aware of him and his claim of being a transgender girl. According to Gooden’s complaint, her daughter suffered “severe physical and mental injuries, severe physical and mental pain, and severe emotional distress.” Reports by other students who witnessed the attack — one of whom tried to intervene — say it was “unprovoked” and that the injured girl was “knocked out clean on the floor” when the male student then began kicking and punching her repeatedly in the head.

The attack happened despite a year-old Oklahoma law requiring that students who claim to be transgender, but who don’t want to use the restroom matching the sex listed on their birth certificates, must use a single-occupancy bathroom or other separate facility provided by the school. While LGBT advocates groused about the unfairness of the law, claiming that it “could cause transgender children to question whether they are safe using the restroom at school,” the incident with Gooden’s daughter shows that the law should be followed. It includes a “cause of action provision” to be used in the event a school does not comply.

According to a report by Conservative America Today, Gooden’s lawsuit “also asserts that the male student had a history of violence — including an October 21, 2022 incident in which Edmond Police were called to remove the boy from the girls’ bathroom and search him for a weapon, as he had allegedly threatened a female student.” The complaint charges that the school district knew of this issue yet continued to allow the student to use the girls’ bathroom.

Edmond Public Schools Superintendent Angela Grunewald admitted that the attack’s occurrence was “hard to explain, but if a parent comes in and enrolls their child as a certain gender, and when you look at that child by all social norms they look and present themselves as that gender, it’s not something that you would question.” She also claimed that birth certificates “are not required” for students to start high school in the district so the school wouldn’t have known about the student’s birth sex. She added that he “is no longer enrolled,” and that one of the school policies broken that day was “for fighting,” as though the incident involved a two-way confrontation.

Twitter users reacted strongly to reports of the attack. One person stated: “The kid needs to be tried for felony assault as an adult.” Another posted: “I’m tired of others getting blamed for what the transgender community is cultivating. They are the aggressors! Transgenders are complaining about violence against them when it is the transgender doing the violence. The transgender women prove daily they are VIOLENT MEN.”

This isn’t the first time such an attack has occurred. Education Reporter described two sexual assaults on female students in 2021 at two different high schools in Virginia “by a male student wearing a skirt.” When the father of one of the girls became emotional at a school board meeting while testifying about his daughter’s attack, he was arrested. It was the catalyst for parents to be labeled “terrorists” by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Rejecting Pride Month

Reports of backlash against Pride Month have been trickling in this June. For example, the city of Hamtramck, Michigan near Detroit, which has a large Muslim population, is reportedly among the first in the country to bar pride flag displays on city property. One city council member contended that “all are welcome,” but questioned why LGBT individuals “have to have a flag shown on government property to be represented.”

The city allows the display of five flags on its property: the American flag, the Michigan state flag, the city flag, the Prisoner of War flag, and one flag representing the nations of origin of the city’s residents. The decision to bar the pride flag does not prevent people from displaying it on their private property.

Even major league baseball has been forced to step back from its enthusiastic support of Pride Month. The Washington Stand reports that the league “quietly ordered teams to ditch their Pride uniforms entirely.”

Controversy has simmered in the MLB for a year over this issue. According to the Stand: “The plans for June [2023] were scrapped at an owners meeting in February, shortly after hockey’s New York Rangers and New York Islanders signaled a massive sea change in the fight over Pride jerseys. Both Big Apple teams announced that they’d be forgoing the tradition in one of the bluest cities in America, shocking owners everywhere. Suddenly, the handful of skaters who’d taken a stand were on the verge of upending the sports’ status quo.”

In an opinion piece posted by The Daily Caller on msn.com, author Grayson Quay described and commended recent efforts by the Right to push back on the radical Left’s agenda.

Quay opined that the “silent majority” must continue to speak up and “contest leftist control of the public square. You can’t win by passively appealing to normalcy when your adversaries control the very definition of ‘normal,’” he wrote. “There’s no ‘silent majority’ coming to save us. It’s time to become the noisy minority. If we ever want to retake power from leftist lunatics, that’s the only way to do it.”

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