Ballymena Pride è ancora andato avanti

Good to see they could go ahead and the haters didn’t get their way

What kind of gobshite would go out of their way to travel to a place to protest people just wanting to be the people that **their** god made them? Surely if god is infallible, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent then gay people existing is all part of the plan?

It’s telling that we don’t have large presences of the LGBT crowd protesting outside churches. Even though that would actually make way more sense.

The palestine and pride flag combo is hilarious

Fair play to the guy giving the parade more attention in the media, glad it still went ahead.

I’m glad it went ahead. These guys aren’t too bright, if you want to make something popular then threaten to ban it .
It’s the Streisand effect, it’s not like the Ballymena pride parade would have gotten more than very local coverage.

The pride movement in Ireland grew out of people being beaten to death and the perpetrators essentially walking free. I remember my friends and later colleagues being worried about “gay bashing”, which was widespread during the eighties.

RIP Declan Flynn .