Consider the plight of that poor oppressed majority: heterosexuals | Arwa Mahdawi

A bar in Idaho has gone viral for launching a Heterosexual Awesomeness Month. Unfortunately, it's a familiar wheeze

Spare a thought for the poor heterosexual: a wretched creature, shunned and marginalised despite living in a world built around their lifestyle choices. This oppressed majority has, finally, found an ally in the form of a bar in Idaho called Old State Saloon, which recently went viral for celebrating Heterosexual Awesomeness Month". On Mondays in June, any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male will receive a free draft beer" and on Wednesdays heterosexual couples get 15% off their bill".

If this exhausting joke sounds a little familiar, it's because these sorts of shenanigans happen every single Pride month. Some wag with a chip on their shoulder will decide that it's unfair that the gays get a whole month to themselves and will launch something to increase awareness of heterosexual people. In 2011, for example, a Brazilian politician tried to get the city of Sao Paulo to establish a Heterosexual Pride Day. That didn't end up passing but, in 2019, Boston held a Straight Pride Parade. A few hundred Trump supporters marched with signs bearing slogans such as Straight lives matter".

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