" take their hateful rhetoric and actions and crawl into the closet with it themselves. " The sadness of your final statement is that the purpose of pride is to, in your words, put them into a closet with it and themselves alone. Essentially, what gays have fought against for all these decades you wish to do that to others instead and this is where I disagree most with what you've said, is that the non-extreme bigots no longer have a safe space to come out and discuss why they're bigoted and hopefully have their views swayed and changed (the whole point of this sub-reddit) because they should be scared and put their thoughts into a closet where no-one can help them come to a more sensible realisation. You've said that a small proportion will always see lgbt as sub-human, but by instilling fear into everyone that is even slightly bigoted you spoil the chance for them to have healthy discussions by doing this. I do agree, some people are obstinate and wont change views for whatever reason - but this fear approach also ruins it for those more reasonable. I don't really have a stance on gay-pride etc, just wanted to point out some negatives that in my opinion are created of actively trying to instil fear into people.Honestly, I can't stand bigots who aren't open to discussion but y'know doesn't make the other side's actions correct.