Hmmm... good point.well, some people don't see much reason to be proud of being a member of a group that faces little to no adversity.
i don't like pride parades, either.
pride in the heterosexual lifestyle is paraded before our eyes every time we turn on the tv, and see an ad that tells us that if we buy this new car, we'll get loads of steaming poontang.
the difference is, we're used to it. companies have been marketing their products through heterosexual insecurity for as long as there have been advertisements.
Maybe "pride" is present, in a distinctively different flavor....