[cknight]

I am not sure how much you've had to do with the LGBT+ community as a whole, but please do not reduce "Pride" to certain risque parts of certain glitzy annual parades. That is just a media-distilled version of the tip of a very big iceberg.

Your comment is not just too negative, it is simply wrong. Without Pride, same-sex marriage would never have been possible.

Definitions used for this sense of Pride (ripped from Google define, since they're good enough and I am lazy):

"Confidence and self-respect as expressed by members of a group, typically one that has been socially marginalized, on the basis of their shared identity, culture, and experience."

and

"Consciousness of one's own dignity" (Antonym: Shame.)

Note the Google definitions of Pride not being used in this sense:

"The quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance." (Antonyms: modesty, humility)

and

"A feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired."

[0815test]

Look, my point is much simpler than that. What the over-corporatized, commercialized "Pride parade" meme is doing is explicitly erasing the very real distinctions between pride and dignity/honor on the one hand, as well as shame and modesty on the other. No other social/political movement is doing that, whether involving marginalized people or not[1]; so no, one can't simply assert that "Pride is just social/political affirmation" and leave it at that; this is simply not what's going on. Is this really what we want as a society? That's quite arguable to say the least!

[1] (And since the most basic way of countering social marginalization is to build up social capital, the "pride" attitude is something that, as a matter of fact, is directly detrimental to this goal. "Pride" is bad precisely because it corrupts and destroys social capital as much as shame does!)