@Bobby9 Fellow straight male here. You seem to be conflating two different meanings of pride. You seem to be talking about pride as if they are taking pride in a genetic inheritance (gay or straight, black or white), which - if applicable - would indeed be approximately just as absurd as you've sketched.

But LGBTQ Pride isn't about that kind of pride. Rather, it is pride celebrating human dignity and the hard work of self-affirmation in defiance of centuries of relentless denigration and shaming driven by straight homophobia, attitudes that in recent years have turned all the more poisonous and violent in the shadows as they have become less socially acceptable.

Since straight folks have never faced such denigration, they haven't had to learn how to affirm themselves despite such relentless shaming. So, yeah, for straight people, being straight just is. But members of the LGBTQ community have had to practice a self-affirmation vs. society that we straight folks really have very little concept of.

@Bobby9 No difference? Have you ever been shamed for being straight?

@Bobby9 Not to avoid shame really, but rather to move boldly well beyond it, in large part to counter the profoundly damaging impact of shame that has been inflicted upon members of the LGBTQ community. This countering occurs through self-affirmation in defiance of society's attempts to shame and also through creating a celebratory and welcoming space for those who have not yet felt safe enough to emerge from their socially-imposed shame space, aka the proverbial closet.

You seem to be equating the straight and gay experiences, but they are nothing alike.

Of course, LGBTQ Pride also celebrates the accomplishments of community members who have done great things, just like St. Patrick's Day for the Irish or Black or Women's History Month. But even here it is very often about raising awareness of people's identity that had been silenced bc everyone of significance has been presumed for so long to be straight white men.