Pride Month 2025 in Review: A Total Flop – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

If, like most Americans, you’ve been reading news of ICE raids in Los Angeles and the accompanying riots while trying to keep up on the latest developments in Iran, you might have forgotten that June is typically a hallowed month dedicated to exposing our children to LGBTQ fetishes in our city streets, libraries, and schools.

After all, it wasn’t immediately apparent upon entering Target, since the company opted to bury its Pride Month merch under Father’s Day gifts, summer-themed T-shirts, and Fourth of July sparklers. Meanwhile, Walmart satisfied itself with a half-hearted collection that received dismal reviews from LGBTQ activists. As if that weren’t victory enough, major corporations including Apple, IBM, HP, American Airlines, Paramount, and even (perhaps shockingly) Vogue, didn’t try to redesign their logos in all the colors of the rainbow this year and, more importantly, many of them pulled or reduced funding for Pride events across the country.

That’s not to say the “community” didn’t give it their best.

Earlier this week, drag queen Jake Boyce gave the weather forecast on prominent television station and ABC affiliate News Center Maine. The whole performance, per the Maine Wire, was just as cringe as you’d expect, between the meteorologist “fawning over Boyce” and Boyce’s insistence on referring to the audience as “honey” ad nauseam while mistakenly claiming a high-pressure system in the Carolinas was a hurricane. (READ MORE: Corporate America Withdrawing Support for LGBTQ Pride Celebrations)

There has been, of course, a collection of smaller Pride events: Park Ridge, Illinois held a Pride event featuring drag queens taking money from children in front of the city hall, another event in Boston, Massachusetts was advertised as “all ages family friendly” despite featuring degenerate dancing, Orange County School of the Arts featured an “exciting drag show” during its Pride celebration, and Pride events in Dallas and Arlington, Texas, were marketed to kids and families despite the usual lineup of sexually profligate behavior.

Public libraries are continuing their practice of indoctrinating kids, too. John Murawski recently surveyed an LGBTQ-themed display that appeared in a Wake Forest public library in North Carolina for RealClearInvestigations and reported that it included the usual lineup of titles teaching kids unusual sexual fetishes.

But while these smaller Pride celebrations were more or less a success, plenty of high-profile events have struggled.

Two years ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ annual Pride Night made headlines when they featured the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that openly mocks the Catholic Church. This year, the team’s Pride Night was notable because pitcher and three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw was having none of it. He expressed his defiance by writing “Gen 9:12-16” on his Pride hat, effectively redefining the rainbow as a Christian symbol. (LISTEN: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 144: The Downfall of Pride and Trans Athlete AB Hernandez)

Then there was WorldPride 2025, a biannual festival that was held in Washington, D.C. this year. Anyone who had to fly out of Dulles International Airport might have noticed the Pride-themed selfie station in Concourse A, designed for visitors to WorldPride. As it turned out, those visitors numbered fewer than usual.

Not only was attendance down, but President Donald Trump’s decision to fire members of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees back in February and to assume the role of chairman of the board has made the center a less-than-friendly place for WorldPride events. Months ago, participating artists were informed that their events had been either canceled or relocated. Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance publicly criticized the center, calling the whole situation “disappointing,” and Michael Roest, director of the International Pride Orchestra, called the performing arts space “hostile.”

But that wasn’t all. Government contractor and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton reportedly backed out of its contract with Capital Pride Alliance. CBS News reported that corporations like Comcast/Xfinity, Deloitte, and Visa never even made it that far — they “dropped out in various stages of the sponsorship process.”

Lack of funding, it seems, was a common complaint among event organizers this year. CBS News reported that some organizers said their corporate support has dropped by 20 to 30 percent — numbers that have even impacted events and organizations in cities like San Francisco and New York. Heritage of Pride, which puts on New York’s annual festivities, will be facing an estimated shortfall of $750,000 and has turned to grassroots fundraising.

All of this is good news, of course. Ideally, these kinds of degenerate events would be canceled entirely and banned from ever making a reappearance, but the fact that they’re being organically (if gradually) defunded is still a huge step in the right direction.

The biggest sign that we’re nearing a major cultural win is that we’ve gotten to the point where Pride Month is no longer a measure of just how pervasive amoral degeneracy has become, but rather how much that degeneracy is struggling to stay entrenched in our society.

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