LGBTQ+

I'm torn between "All assimilationists can go to hell" and "This isn't really my wheelhouse so that's fine, the means of gaining a foothold aren't gonna necessarily look the same in two different places that need to approach the issue in very different ways"

Part of the reason I like pride as a breakaway culture is that it functions as a sort of dual power - Lets me find community and partake in institutions that very pointedly aren't beholden to heavily conservative, often very christian American cultural norms. At the best of times, hanging around these circles is a glimpse of what my life would be like if I wasn't subject to the local cultural hegemons.

the idea that someone might genuinely not be irreparably disgusted with their own country's culture, and in fact might actively want to participate in it or even identify with it, is admittedly borderline eldritch to me.