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  • Because it's June, which means it's time to celebrate the holiday Jojo Siwa invented, Pride Month.

  • Pride Month started as a anti-establishment protest, but over the last few decades, it's gone mainstream.

  • There are parades in every city,

  • Pizza Hut puts out gay boxes, and even Exxon changes all its oil spills to a rainbow color.

  • Hashtag ally.

  • But recently, the conservative backlash has been growing, and this year, some pride traditions are coming under fire.

  • In Florida, Ron DeSantis' administration has forbidden cities across the state from displaying colorful lights on their bridges during Pride Month, limiting bridge coloration to red, white, and blue.

  • Bridges across the state that normally illuminate in colorful arrays of light to mark holidays won't be able to use any other colors.

  • The goal of Ron's order is clearly to shut down any celebration of Pride Month.

  • Yo, what is up with Ron DeSantis?

  • I mean, I can't believe a guy who rocks three-inch heels is such a dick to the gay community.

  • But, by the way...

  • By the way, red, white, and blue lights on crumbling infrastructure, perfect metaphor for America.

  • And it's so sad because having pride colors on bridges also prevented a lot of straight people from killing themselves.

  • Guys would be like, hey, I can't jump off this bridge, that's gay.

  • But if you think it can't get any pettier than a ban on rainbow bridges, there's a bar in Idaho saying, hold my heterosexual beer.

  • An Idaho bar is offering a break from the pride push that's being forced on Americans by declaring June to be Heterosexual Awesomeness Month.

  • The Old State Saloon offering deals all month long, including Hetero Male Monday, when any heterosexual male, get this, who must be dressed like a heterosexual male, gets a free pint of beer.

  • You must be dressed like a heterosexual male.

  • So, this straight bar is gonna be critiquing everyone's outfits as soon as they walk in the door?

  • It sounds super straight to me.

  • What, what exactly are they even saying here?

  • Like, our bar is so straight that we're offering special deals to pack it entirely with dudes.

  • I mean, you're basically one brick away from being Stonewall, okay?

  • So, now I guess someone could argue that none of this stuff is explicitly anti-gay, but just check out how Colorado Republicans are celebrating pride.

  • The Colorado Republican Party is calling on people to burn all gay pride flags, proclaiming in a mass email to supporters that, quote, God hates pride.

  • The Republican Party's message attacks so-called godless groomers, and it echoes the anti-gay slur used by Westboro Baptist Church protesters.

  • Okay, yeah, awful story, but hang on.

  • Wait, did Jesus have laser eyes?

  • Was that in the Bible?

  • I mean, I knew he had powers.

  • I didn't know he was in the X-Men.

  • Damn it!

  • I don't get how anyone can be so angry about rainbow flags.

  • I mean, it must be exhausting being that homophobic, you know, just eating a bag of Skittles, like, no homo, no homo, it's no homo, I mean.

  • So there's backlash to Pride Month all around the country, and guess what?

  • Some of those corporate allies are turning out to be fair-weather friends.

  • Target says it will no longer sell its Pride Month collection in all of its stores.

  • The decision comes after conservative groups became upset over the chain's decision to sell LGBTQ-themed merchandise last June.

  • The company says the backlash harmed sales.

  • Are you kidding me?

  • Target stopped selling gay stuff?

  • But their logo is literally a butthole.

  • Well, you know, that's it.

  • From now on, I will be going somewhere else to pretend to shop so I can poop in the bathroom.

Because it's June, which means it's time to celebrate the holiday Jojo Siwa invented, Pride Month.

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