It's the first time I've seen it so up close. The clockwork nature in which all the local businesses are putting up rainbow flags in time to catch the loose change from the drunk straight people who will be coming down by train over the weekend. It's sad.
Especially pissed off with the 2010's sanitised 'love is love' and 'proud' bullshit slogans. You can't say anything provocative and specific. You can't demand the rights of trans youth. You're only doing it because it's pride weekend. In Brighton. This is 2% of the city's yearly economy in a blowout tourist weekend.
I'm telling myself the fact that queer people inadvertently being the city's mascots is a price to pay for living in a city with a sizeable - and noticed - queer community. IDK how much that is me rationalising something I can't really do anything about.