Pride Is Losing Sponsorships

[DesRicardo]

As is their right to raise their own children as they see fit. Welcome to western societal values -- where it's apparently normal to expose children to graphic violence in video games but the naked human body? sexuality? being comfortable in just your own skin? Somebody think of the children!

I really don't understand the pearl clutching going on here. Everyone here is literally on a forum for sex work; presumably this would mean more than average here have a sex-positive view of the world. There are far worse vices in life than sexuality, and it's still up to parents to teach their kids to be upstanding citizens.

Pride wouldn't be necessary and the world would be that much kinder if everyone could learn to mind their own damned business. Despite all of the crying about "leftist" cancel culture, nobody ever lost their job for keeping their mouth fucking shut. Just saying.

oh phooey,

If I brought an 8 year old with me to a strip club, I'd get knocked out by the bouncer, arrested by the cops and child services would put the kid in foster care.

Spare us your virtue signalling. There are boundaries we create for children for their own sake.

Plus, I highly doubt any child is asking there parent to take them to see gay men with assless chaps being walked around on a leash.

 

[Bucktee]

I saw old naked men with TITS humping the concrete pavement in front of little kids at the pride parade once and parents are standing around clapping like seals like oh my god you old men with tits are doing such a great job!

It's a get out of jail free card.

 

[Callmerey]

Some positive news for once.

In Toronto:

Pride Toronto faces another setback as Google, Home Depot pull sponsorship

Pride Toronto has faced another setback, losing two more major corporate sponsors — Google and Home Depot — just before Pride Month begins, Pride Toronto executive director Kojo Modeste told CP24 Saturday afternoon.

www.ctvnews.ca

"The non-profit in charge of the 2SLGBTQ+ festival is facing a loss of around $700,000 in corporate sponsorships as a result of all the withdrawals, he said.

"Pride Toronto has numerous contracts with artists and vendors from across Canada, so there won’t be any major changes in the planning of the 2025 festival. However, Modeste stated that things could look very different by next year if this trend continues. "


In NYC:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/nyc-pride-sponsors-trump-tariffs.html

" About 25 percent of corporate donors to New York Pride have canceled or scaled back their support "

This makes me really happy. Finally people have started voicing out without being shamed for acknowledging only 2 genders. Great job!

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

Pride existed before the so called woke movement when there was open hostility to that community.
They've been around for 50+ years.
A few politically motivated and lost sponsorships isn't going to stop them.
But it is definitely fodder for the reactionaries on the right.
Here are a list of all their sponsors.
They are also publicly funded by the way.
So while you are complaining you are also paying lmao.

Our Pride Month Sponsors - Pride Toronto

Celebrate Pride with us! Thanks to generous sponsors, our festival thrives. Join the joyous unity! 🌈 #PrideFestival #SupportingUnity

www.pridetoronto.com

 

[southpaw]

A few politically motivated and lost sponsorships isn't going to stop them.

No, but BLM did some years back. That was entertaining. Like Freddie vs. Jason.

 

[wigglee]

Happy Pride to all you whining homophobes!

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Pride existed before the so called woke movement when there was open hostility to that community.
They've been around for 50+ years.
A few politically motivated and lost sponsorships isn't going to stop them.
But it is definitely fodder for the reactionaries on the right.
Here are a list of all their sponsors.
They are also publicly funded by the way.
So while you are complaining you are also paying lmao.

Our Pride Month Sponsors - Pride Toronto

Celebrate Pride with us! Thanks to generous sponsors, our festival thrives. Join the joyous unity! 🌈 #PrideFestival #SupportingUnity

www.pridetoronto.com

Around 40% of US companies are scaling back on Pride month

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/business/brands-pride-month-trump-lgbtq

 

[Patron]

As I said in a post above, some of us like the gays and lesbians to be deviant.

All of this gay marriage with kids and mainstream life with corporate sponsorship is just a little strange, so I am glad there is still plenty of risqué behavior at the celebrations.

And I get tired of the Oh Protect The Children argument. We are dealing with it in the U.S. with so many porn sites blocked in so many states.

If the Pride stuff is sexual, and you don’t want a kid exposed to sex, don’t take the kid anywhere near it. Some kids are raised around sex, so don’t criticize the parents who do. At school, there need to be a few fast kids who explain this stuff to the sheltered children.

When I think of the declining corporate sponsorships, I realize they could make a hell of a Jack in the Box commercial (a U.S. fast food restaurant whose only benefit to society is its hilarious commercials).

The commercials sometimes feature an irritating corporate clone talking to the more worldly Jack in the Box Clown Mascot - kind of a Ronald McDonald parody for adults.

Corporate Clone: Oh look, there are Rock and Gus on our float. Oh my, what are they doing?

Mascot: That is called analingus. Saliva is a natural lube prior to the anal intercourse they will be having next.

Corporate Clone: Oh my. Well the recipient of the analingus is fortunately remembering to eat our double cheeseburger right on cue. But it is important that he wash it down with the coke we provided since Coca-Cola is paying for part of our float. With all of this excitement, I sure hope he doesn’t turn out to be one of those Pepsi guys.

Mascot: There he goes. He is drinking the right thing like a good bottom. Have a coke and a smile.

Pride Month 2025 Organizers Face Uncertain Future As Some Corporate Sponsors Pull Back

Pride festival organizers face hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost corporate funding this year, a trend that could continue as the Trump administration attacks DEI efforts.

www.forbes.com

 

[Jenesis]

Lewd behavior has its place, the public streets is not one of them. Again, PRIDE is supposed to be about celebrating sexual orientation and gender, not sex acts themselves. There is a huge difference.

I have and have always had semi-nude art in my house. I have had kids all around it. I raised my brat with sexually foward parenting methods and never hid nudity. I taught age appropriate sex related topics, masturbation, etc. But I didn't have hustler/penthouse pin-ups. There is a difference between the statue of David and man shanking his willy in the streets of DT.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I taught age appropriate sex related topics, masturbation, etc

Key part there is "age appropriate"

 

[Dekar]

I like how you try soooo hard to blame some of us who aren't against gays and stuff.

There's no issue at Pride parade seeing gays kiss even in front of children. If women wanna walk around topless at the parade then have at it even around children long as nobody is being sexual around children (under 10 years old at least). I'll let a pre teen watch or play some violent games but skip certain parts. I also wouldn't let children under 10 watch certain things like how some parents let kids that young play GTA's storyline or let them watch Squid Games. Would I take kids that age to some art show where there's nudity? Sure. Long as it's not sexual art like what's in porn mags.

All you've done in this topic is whine about being okay for kids (under 10) to be exposed to people fucking. You're basically leaning towards saying things like CP is normal and our society should accept it. You're also heavily leaning towards 2 adults being highly sexually with each other while the child is in the same room. In your eyes "sexuality" should be open to kids due to "freedom". You then vent about us Johns being seeing the world in a sex-positive way which we do. I already said you wanna do a parade where people are doing sexual acts in public then have a separate parade where it's known to be adults only. Law enforcement should also make sure kids aren't nearby. No different than underground clubs where people have orgies and stuff. You don't see kids at those clubs and if someone does allow kids there it's only a matter of time before shit hits the fan. Someone already also said bringing a child to a strip club would more than likely get you in a lot of trouble. Are you next going to suggest adults at schools be openly sexually while kids are there too because that's what some adults are doing at Pride. It's the sexual acts and performances where the lines is drawn. A topless lesbian walking around isn't doing anything. Guys walking around with exposed hard on along with sex acts being performed on them while a 7 year old sees it in your eyes is no issue. It's interesting law enforcement let stuff like that slide at Pride for whatever reason, but you go do that any other day and it's indecent exposure along with whatever other charges. That part of the parade has become a cesspool.

Parents shouldn't be forced to keep their kids away from celebrations of the self just because there are a few pieces of shit displaying obscenity in public. Surely your parents must have covered your eyes at times when you were a child?

Anyone walking into a strip joint does so with lewd intentions. People go to the Pride parade to celebrate their sexual orientation and identity. Trying to say a parent is negligent for the latter is frankly quite ignorant. A few bad actors shouldn't ruin the event for everyone.

The problem here is law enforcement; and like in many other things here in Canada, they really do fuck all except hand out speeding tickets.

 

[Bucktee]

As I said in a post above, some of us like the gays and lesbians to be deviant.

If the Pride stuff is sexual, and you don’t want a kid exposed to sex, don’t take the kid anywhere near it.

The parade is marketed as a mainstream celebration of sexual orientation and its founding principles are about championing equal rights. It is also publicly funded. For these reasons, it should be family friendly.

 

[Patron]

The parade is marketed as a mainstream celebration of sexual orientation and its founding principles are about championing of equal rights. It is also publicly funded. For these reasons, it should be family friendly.

You really can’t make sodomy family-friendly and if you do, it denies the hardest-core sodomites the right to express themselves.

So none of this really works.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

You really can’t make sodomy family-friendly and if you do, it denies the hardest-core sodomites the right to express themselves

They can express themselves sexually when they get home behind closed doors, like the rest of us

 

[Patron]

They can express themselves sexually when they get home behind closed doors, like the rest of us

Since every TV show now features happily married, well adjusted gays and lesbians, if the parade is going to be that tame, why even have it.

The whole idea was to push boundaries when it started.

There are likely still boundaries to be pushed.

 

[hemiman]

I've seen plenty complaints about gyrating and such.

My major issue with Pride is they are starting to involve young kids more and more.

Shh. You weren't supposed to notice

 

[hemiman]

Soddom and Gomorrah 2.0

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Since every TV show now features happily married, well adjusted gays and lesbians, if the parade is going to be that tame, why even have it.

The whole idea was to push boundaries when it started.

There are likely still boundaries to be pushed

Tell me something please, if I whip out my dick in front of 10-year old school kids and start jacking off I'll get arrested on the spot, thrown in jail, and put on a sex offender list (as I should be).
But when gays do it in a pride parade, its suddenly okay?? Please explain this hypocritical double-standard.

And also please explain why public nudity is necessary to for LGBT to express themselves.
Why can they not express themselves with their clothes on??

 

[Patron]

You guys are acting like they let school out every year and have all the kids go to the Pride Parade.

It is likely no place for children, but that is true for many things.

A lot of anti-sex propaganda involves Protect the Children, when in fact no children are involved.

The Oh Save The Children theme has been used against sex workers constantly.

Many of them worry about losing custody of children if their sex work personna is discovered, particularly in a nasty divorce.

And many sex work advertising venues have been lost since they were too accessible by children, according to politicians and courts at least.

Many of you say all things sexual should be in the bedroom, but the truth is that Terb and its advertisements and reviews can be publicly read, and I am sure some kid somewhere has stumbled upon it. By much of your logic, Terb should then be banned to protect the Prize Child.

I do have a beef about one thing.

Hollywood’s insistence on mainstreaming gays and lesbians.

Let them be different if they want to be and have a raunchy parade. If some of you have kids, don’t bring them. I have no interest in them, not being gay. But they can do whatever they want hell they want at their damn parade as far as I am concerned. They ain’t marching through the schoolyard.

 

[Ol' Dirty Bastard]

Many of them worry about losing custody of children if their sex work personna is discovered, particularly in a nasty divorce.

But that's why they got into the game in the first place. Right after baby daddy bounced.