They found that Pride does work as a social contagion but only in the proximity of the event. The good news is that Pride had a positive impact in the local proximity. The bad news is that support for Pride did not spread far beyond Sarajevo. The authors found that while advocacy efforts complement Pride in encouraging mobilization this declines when looking nationwide.
Meaning that Pride and ethnonationalist attitudes negatively impact mobilization outside of Sarajevo. More than just understanding the attitudes of Bosnians toward Pride, Ayoub, Page, and Whit were interested in how individuals might contribute their financial resources, which would indicate greater support. Participants in the study were given a hypothetical sum of 1, Bosnian marks and asked how they would allocate the sum.
Nationwide, the pre-Pride sample gave marks but that drops slightly following the Pride event. You could glimpse, amid effigies of Marsha P. Johnson and middle fingers raised toward NYPD officers, thongs, pup gear , makeouts, and bare breasts. The LGBTQ community, in its many permutations, defies the traditionalist idea that sex exists for procreation and should happen only between married men and women. Kink, the pursuit of pleasures that other people find strange, fits in that group neatly.
The Stonewall uprising took place after cops invaded a bar where people cruised and sex workers congregated. Moreover, homophobia roots itself in a sense of revulsion —a notion that certain kinds of sex and bodies are weird, unnatural, and wrong.
All of this context makes now an odd moment for a sex-adverse critique of Pride: While the mainstream festivities get criticized as tame and conciliatory, some in the younger generation want them tamer and more conciliatory. Certain social-media users have shared horror stories about being groped at Pride events—demonstrating that the ongoing reckoning over how to curb abuse in crowds, both queer and straight , is not finished. Other kink-at-Pride objectors strain the language of consent and safety to claim that glimpsing a dildo-shaped float amounts to assault.
Read: Cruising in the age of consent. Step back, though, and these objections become almost reassuring. Many of the complaints come from actual children—and it is fine and normal for children to feel uncomfortable with adult sexual behavior. In , Gallup found that Polls of minors tell a similar story: A CDC survey found that The voices of such teens are able to travel far and fast thanks to platforms like TikTok. The measures were attached to a bill allowing tougher penalties for pedophiles.
Hungary's government says its policies seek to protect children. But critics of the legislation compare it to Russia's gay propaganda law of , and say it conflates homosexuality with pedophilia as part of a campaign ploy to mobilize conservative voters ahead of elections next spring. Many politicians in the European Union, of which Hungary is a member, fiercely opposed the legislation.
The Executive Commission of the nation bloc launched two separate legal proceedings against Hungary's government last week over what it called infringements on LGBT rights. Saturday's march wound through the center of Budapest and crossed the Danube River on one of the iconic structures connecting the city's two halves: Liberty Bridge.
The law also requires that only government-approved civic organizations can provide sexual education in schools and limits the availability of media content and literature to minors that discusses sexual orientation. Pride marcher Anasztazia Orosz said that would inhibit young people from accessing important information and validation of their own sexual orientation. On Wednesday, Orban announced the government would hold a national referendum to demonstrate public support for the law.
The poll will ask Hungarians whether children should be introduced to topics of sexual orientation in schools, and whether gender reassignment should be promoted or depicted to children. Majercsik, the Pride spokesperson, said the questions are "openly transphobic and homophobic," and part of a "propaganda campaign" by the government to incite resentment against the LGBT community.
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