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prismatic-bell:
8daysuntiltheapocalypseiguess:
nyanbinary-ferris:
kitbulls:
kitbulls:
someone not wanting to see kink shit at pride is not homophobia oh my god
just to clarify
this kind of thing?
totally fine. go nuts. stay hydrated. try not to overheat. (seriously how do yall wear all that leather shit in the middle of the summer??)
but this shit?
hmm no. save it for folsom.
exactly why you should keep it at home
Pride parades should be a safe place for queer kids. If you want to organize private adult only Pride events then more power to you, but Pride parades and other public Pride events should be kid-friendly. It’s important for queer kids to see healthy displays of queer affection but you should not be doing anything sexually explicit or kinky at a Pride parade. Save that for adults-only venues and events.
Pride should be safe for all queer people and queer kids are a subset of queer people who are especially vulnerable and especially in need of a safe place thanks.
To be clear:
Showing your place as a member of the kink community at Pride is fine. In a sea of rainbows, crazy clothes and hair, and general cheerful pandemonium, very few kids (if any) will notice someone discreetly wearing a collar or lock boots or leather pants. They’ll assume it’s just one more costume, and move on. And the kink community and the queer community have a long, heavily-intertwined past–of course adults kind of expect to see you there. Adults who know anything about queer history do, anyway.
Engaging in actual kink play while at Pride is not only not okay in the “there are children here” sense, it’s also unethical kink behavior. The motto of kink: SSC. Safe, Sane, CONSENSUAL. If you’re walking your pet human on a leash to humiliate them for sexual kicks, none of the people around you have been given the chance to consent. Some of the people around you may not be sober (breaking the “sane” rule, because they are not in a state to make important decisions). Still others may have trauma or severe discomfort surrounding kinks–speaking personally, while I am myself a kinky bitch I’m also deathly afraid of things like those latex masks up there–and that breaks the “safe” rule, because those people do not have a way to exit the scene. It is not a safe scene for them, nor one they consented to. And yes–staging a scene in public does in fact mean you are including bystanders in your scene. Don’t @ me about how it totally isn’t. I’m part of this community, I know how scenes work.
Be proud of being part of a community that has supported the queer community for literal decades. But be proud in public without being X-rated.
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prismatic-bell:
8daysuntiltheapocalypseiguess:
nyanbinary-ferris:
kitbulls:
kitbulls:
someone not wanting to see kink shit at pride is not homophobia oh my god
just to clarify
this kind of thing?
totally fine. go nuts. stay hydrated. try not to overheat. (seriously how do yall wear all that leather shit in the middle of the summer??)
but this shit?
hmm no. save it for folsom.
exactly why you should keep it at home
Pride parades should be a safe place for queer kids. If you want to organize private adult only Pride events then more power to you, but Pride parades and other public Pride events should be kid-friendly. It’s important for queer kids to see healthy displays of queer affection but you should not be doing anything sexually explicit or kinky at a Pride parade. Save that for adults-only venues and events.
Pride should be safe for all queer people and queer kids are a subset of queer people who are especially vulnerable and especially in need of a safe place thanks.
To be clear:
Showing your place as a member of the kink community at Pride is fine. In a sea of rainbows, crazy clothes and hair, and general cheerful pandemonium, very few kids (if any) will notice someone discreetly wearing a collar or lock boots or leather pants. They’ll assume it’s just one more costume, and move on. And the kink community and the queer community have a long, heavily-intertwined past–of course adults kind of expect to see you there. Adults who know anything about queer history do, anyway.
Engaging in actual kink play while at Pride is not only not okay in the “there are children here” sense, it’s also unethical kink behavior. The motto of kink: SSC. Safe, Sane, CONSENSUAL. If you’re walking your pet human on a leash to humiliate them for sexual kicks, none of the people around you have been given the chance to consent. Some of the people around you may not be sober (breaking the “sane” rule, because they are not in a state to make important decisions). Still others may have trauma or severe discomfort surrounding kinks–speaking personally, while I am myself a kinky bitch I’m also deathly afraid of things like those latex masks up there–and that breaks the “safe” rule, because those people do not have a way to exit the scene. It is not a safe scene for them, nor one they consented to. And yes–staging a scene in public does in fact mean you are including bystanders in your scene. Don’t @ me about how it totally isn’t. I’m part of this community, I know how scenes work.
Be proud of being part of a community that has supported the queer community for literal decades. But be proud in public without being X-rated.
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