No, but with an *
* if there’s a lot of indecency in public, that should be dealt with. Have discussions with the organizers beforehand about nudity and lewdness in public. They have to apply for a permit to march down the roadway. If you don’t have assurances, you don’t issue one. And you would have to be very specific about what is too lewd. Assless chaos? Penis? Boobs? Where are you drawing the line. And when the issue becomes too indecent, make arrests or shut it down. Sure, it will raise a huge stink, but if you want to get naked and simulate? Gay sex acts, do it at a private club, not on main st.
If you take young children to such an event, you deserve them to see something disturbing that they will ask you about later. “Mommy, daddy why was that naked man wrestling with that other man in the street, and what was wrong with his pee pee-it looked weird and like a stick?”
And I mostly love the gay community, but there’s always some that take it too far. They love to offend and love to act outraged that they offended someone. I went to “queen for a day” festival on fire island almost 30 years ago. My older brother took me to shock the shit out of me (I didn’t know where we were going) because he thought it would be funny. It absolutely was. And then I insisted my parents go the next year to shock them, and yes, it was hilarious. The abject fear on my dad’s face as he narrowly avoided ass rape(my dad was a heavy-set man that no one had designs on, which made it funnier that he was so scared). People were crude, there was public sex, and it was shocking, but you expected it and there were no kids there.
Now, in 2016, we went to Seattle to stay with my wife’s cousin and his partner. Because they are gay, we were around gay people all week. It was fun. However, the first night, we were in a public park for a family type event. Kids everywhere. Anyway, while waiting for it to get dark and music and fireworks to begin, I was head down, in my phone playing Pokémon go(my oldest wanted me to catch and trade him rare stuff we don’t have around here). So my wife’s cousin calls my name and says “look, a Pokémon!” and I look up from my phone to find a naked man’s penis inches from my face. I laughed it off. He knew I was straight because I was sitting against my wife and he thought it would be funny to fuck with me. It was. We all laughed, but remember, I am an adult and there were kids everywhere. It wouldn’t have been so funny if I would have dick-punched him, but he chose his target well. I wasn’t paying attention and I was with a group of mostly gay people, so he knew I was likely going to laugh it off.
My point is that if you want to be crude and raunchy, don’t do it in public-but there will always be those in that flamboyant group that get off on shocking and outraging people. So when you ok a pride parade, you need to make it clear what is and what isn’t acceptable in a public street/area. And actually enforce the laws. You have two guys strip down and start banging away in front of a group of children on main st, fucking arrest them. Charge them with lewd and lascivious conduct, public nudity, and maybe some kind of corrupting a minor charge and threaten to make them register as a sex offender. See how funny and shocking it is now.
For the most part, I love gay people. They’re fun and mostly happy. I don’t like the hardcore activist group within the group that just want to shock as revenge for “being a prude.”