straight pride

English

A proposed straight pride flag.

Etymology

Coined modelled on gay pride.

Noun

straight pride (uncountable)

1. (alt-right, offensive) A display of pride in one's heterosexuality, as a reactionary movement to gay pride.
   • 2010, Erin McHugh, Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics Are You Swallowing?, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia.

   • 2015, Vincent Terrace, Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996–2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

     After being arrested and humiliated for being straight, Owen organizes a Straight Pride Parade for himself and others to come out of the closet.

   • 2019 July 1, Nico Lang, “The distraction of Straight Pride, as explained by LGBTQ activists and historians”, in Vox News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2019-07-01:

     In June, a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America announced it was planning a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. The group says they requested the same route as the Boston Pride Parade, which marched from Copley Square to Government Square on June 8.

   • 2023, Hannah Ray Lambert, “Father sues school district for refusing to display straight pride flag alongside Progress Pride flag”, in Fox News:

     A Colorado father is suing the state's largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a "straight pride" flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children's Denver school.

Translations

pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride

• Chinese:
  • Mandarin 直人驕傲／直人骄傲 (zhírén jiāo'ào)
• Italian: etero pride m
• Japanese: ストレート・プライド (sutorēto puraido)
• Portuguese: orgulho hétero m
• Spanish: orgullo hetero m

See also

• white pride

References

• “Straight Pride”, in Hatepedia, Online Hate Research and Education Project, launched 2022