Mick Hartley

Dennis Kavanagh at Spiked, on the fall of Pride:

The ghoulish, fleshy public spectacle that is Pride Month 2025 has little to say beyond exhibitionism and hedonism. It certainly has nothing to say about the UK Supreme Court ruling in April that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex – a ruling that upheld the lesbian and gay right to single-sex associations. It has nothing to say about the Supreme Court justices observing that, had the judgment gone the other way, the protected characteristic of same-sex orientation would be rendered ‘meaningless’. It offers no praise or thanks to the lesbian interveners in the Supreme Court case for fighting for lesbian and gay rights. In fact, it is angry that they did so.

Because the original LGB groups have been taken over by the T.

The Pride-supporting elites are poorly prepared for this historical moment. Pandered to for years, this movement knows only indulgence and uncritical support from governments, unions and corporates. It has never had to address the generational crime against humanity that is gender medicine. It has never had to address the fact that 80 to 90 per cent of the youth at the Tavistock gender-identity clinic were same-sex attracted – kids confused about their sexuality who were pushed towards medical ‘correction’. It has never had anything to say about Nancy Kelley, the former CEO of Stonewall, calling lesbians ‘sexual racists’ for not being attracted to transwomen, otherwise known as men.

Gay conversion therapy via chemical castration and brutal surgeries happened on the Pride leaders’ watch. At every point, they didn’t just abandon their posts, they cheered gender ideology on. The world is slowly waking up to all of this. In Denmark, a medical journal finally broke the taboo around the glaring overrepresentation of autistic-spectrum-disorder youth among those undergoing so-called treatment for gender dysphoria. And now, Australia is also erupting in alarm and disquiet at the wild west of gender medicine.

The majority of gay people, like Kavanagh here, a director of Gay Men’s Network, would have been happy just to get on with their lives after the triumphs of gay lib, but they reckoned without the likes of Stonewall, keen to keep the money flowing in by going all out for trans liberation. It fooled an astonishing number of people into thinking this was the next great liberation cause of an oppressed downtrodden group, instead of a profoundly homophobic and misogynistic movement led, mostly, by autogynephilic men and academics who'd lost their way down the Queer Theory rabbit hole. Well – now we know.

We’ve come a long way from the original 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day march – the event that would become Pride. That was organised by two lesbians and two gay men, Linda Rhodes, Ellen Broidy, Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant. It was a cultural and political phenomenon that changed the world for the better.

Lesbians and gay men certainly made history back then. It falls to us today to destroy gender ideology once and for all. Now that would be something to be proud of.