Age is no issue, when Pride is celebrated
Capitol Pride 2015 was celebrated today in Salem, Ore. The wife and I attended for a couple hours for the first time. It wasn’t what we had expected, however it was an experience nonetheless.
We saw a few performances, checked out the dozens of booths and people watched. While attending Capitol Pride I noticed that some attendees were younger than usual, unusually younger than I would have expected to be attending such an event. Now we had the thought of bringing our son, but we didn’t for other reasons. However, while there I started to have a thought: these children, do they really know what Pride really means.
With this thought filling my head I couldn’t help but start to question the very son we’re raising. Does he know what Pride means? Does he know what it means to be part of the LBGT community? Is he too young to understand this? Were we right for not subjecting him to this event and celebration? I can’t answer these questions because I am not my son.
However, I can only assume that children understand that it is a celebration. They don’t necessarily know what is going on. If we had brought our son along, honestly he wouldn’t have been interested in the Pride celebration one bit. He would have been focused on the playground behind the booths.
The celebration even had a few unfriendly children songs. Now don’t get me wrong, my son has heard worse than the songs performed, but some parents don’t want their children hearing certain things. So in a public setting like the Capitol Pride celebration, children shouldn’t be in attendance; unless there is like a child friendly Pride. Who knows, children are realizing who they are younger and younger, it could be a possibility.
Blog by Melissa Chandler
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