Hey, gays? You’re not, like, being gay enough these days. That Gay Pride Parade on Sunday? Seems like most of you – and by “you,” we mean the affluent, upwardly mobile young homos reading this – and too affluent and upwardly mobile to concern yourselves with something so silly as watching rainbow-colored floats (sponsored by Absolut!) go down Fifth Ave. Don’t you know gay pride has historical considerations to consider? And that you gays abandoning the events is a sign of, like, bad stuff to come or something?

The parade’s budget is expanding, while Heritage of Pride, which runs the parade, says its coffers are drying up as fewer businesses donate cash (there go the affluent, told you!).

Some argue the parade has become too black (hey, Stereohyped, where you at?), too much of a spectacle, too hot (as in temperature, not in chiseled abs), too Jersey. It’s probably hard to get in a good round of bug chasing, even.

And then there are those who just have better things to do.

Last week, more than a dozen gay men interviewed at gay bars said they wouldn’t attend the parade (only two said they would: one who said he’s been living here for eight months, the other for nine months). One generation that actively attended seems to have grown up, and another younger one doesn’t seem interested to begin with.

A 26-year-old graduate student in art history at New York University, Joe Ackley, who was at the Phoenix last Wednesday, doesn’t go.

“I hate Pride. My friend and I celebrate Pride by going to straight bars.”

Original post by perezz and software by Elliott Back