straight pride en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined modelled on gay pride.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A display of pride in one's heterosexuality, as a reactionary movement to gay pride.
Many of those who seized the opportunity to mock Straight Pride and its appropriately drab flag were, unsurprisingly, queer, yet a sizable number of straight people could also be found in the fray.
2019 October 9, Asa Seresin, “On Heteropessimism”, in The New Inquiry, New York, N.Y.: The New Inquiry, Inc.:In June, a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America announced it was planning a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. The group says they requested the same route as the Boston Pride Parade, which marched from Copley Square to Government Square on June 8.
2019 July 1, Nico Lang, “The distraction of Straight Pride, as explained by LGBTQ activists and historians”, in Vox News, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2019:A Colorado father is suing the state's largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a "straight pride" flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children's Denver school.
2023, Hannah Ray Lambert, “Father sues school district for refusing to display straight pride flag alongside Progress Pride flag”, in Fox News:After being arrested and humiliated for being straight, Owen organizes a Straight Pride Parade for himself and others to come out of the closet.
2015, Vincent Terrace, Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996–2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia.
2010, Erin McHugh, Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics Are You Swallowing?, →ISBN, →OCLC:
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Translations (5)
pt orgulho hétero (pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride) · es orgullo hetero (pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride) · ja ストレート・プライド (pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride) · it etero pride (pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride) · zh 直人驕傲 /直人骄傲 (pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride)