Subscriber Saturday: A Not So Gay Old Time

With less than ten days left, Pride Month 2025 could go down in history as one of the least gay months in the history of Pride Month. Was the end presaged by the global MoneyPox Pandemic that could only end after gay men begrudgingly agreed to keep it in their pants for three months?

Pride festivals became ground zero for the classic global infection of an unpleasant but rarely deadly affliction that takes several months to clear. Apologists tried everything, including a rebrand to MPOX (so as to not offend monkeys?), but in the end (ha ha), a bout of short-term celibacy was the only real cure. A different kind of social distancing.

The CDC, always looking for ways to help, suggested that the afflicted could …

“Masturbate together at a distance of at least 6 feet, without touching each other and without touching any rash,” the CDC recommends. “Remember to wash your hands, fetish gear, sex toys, and any fabrics (bedding, towels, clothing) after having sex.”

[I don’t think the CDC is qualified to give relationship advice especially since they proved incapable of providing Public Health Advice during COVID.]

Oh, and Pride season finally ended, which eventually put that pandemic to an end (there’s that word again).

There was another outbreak the following year, and the WHO was tracking what it claimed was a more virulent strain in Africa, but it did not yield significant global results. As in, no multi-national outbreak, but the slanted press coverage and excuses post COIVD to cover for an infection caused by unbridled butt festival hijinks left a mark.

Over Marketing

Target is another likely source of the beginning of the end of what had been an aggressive marketing campaign during Pride Month. After BLM, it became stylish to show your fealty to the Cultural Marxists by waving their banner, but Target got too comfortable. They got busted peddling baby pride stuff, which offended almost everyone. Add Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney trial balloon (that cost them 20-30% of their market share before it quieted down), and the brush fires were sending massive smoke signals to the corporate world.