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Maybe where you're at, but our pride was full of all colors of the rainbow and all walks of life. There were speeches from much older people talking about their joy when they were able to be married to their partner of several decades. There were people presenting from all over the gender spectrum. There were drag performers of all sizes and races and people who were just enjoying being themselves. There was a nonbinary artist with a beard in a dress that had a huge audience. It felt like a time to be around people who would love and accept you unconditionally.
To your point about the cis white gay men: There was a much older lady running a booth (not selling just handing out fliers) for a first time sponsor, and I had such a lovely chat with her. Her husband came to keep her company and they were both expressing how they never really knew much about LGBT stuff but seeing people there and the joy really affected her. I don’t know if she was anti lgbt before, but you could tell she was really moved by seeing people basically just being at a fair, but able to be themselves. She told me about a gay couple that stopped by with their kids and how happy the kids looked. She even asked me about the flags (our pride had like every lgbt flag under the sun as freebies). Sure, maybe she's only affected by the hetero seeming people that fit into the cis white 2.5 kids mold, but I really think it had an impact on her. So, to your point, sure I won't argue that the hot cis white guys are probably more visible/"palatable" at pride, but it's still a really important event for the community as a whole, and it's gotten more open and accepting every year.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say their point had less to do with the young athletic cis white gay men and more to do with the corporate funding... which is usually wealthy cis white gay men who may as well be wealthy cis white straight men with their politics.
Maybe, but pride centering mostly attractive young cis white men has been a huge point for years, with (to my recollection) #prideSoWhite becoming a popular hashtag/rallying cry. I wasn't on any social media outside of reddit at the time and even I saw people #prideSoWhite. Admittedly, both are issues, but I think the community understands that corpo sponsors are kinda necessary for the kind of pride people have become accustomed to, so generally the corpos get flack for sponsoring only a small "acceptable" portion of the community. I think asking community members to share the space with other community members has been the go to for resolving this, cuz you're generally not gonna get corpos to sponsor them directly. I could be misreading their comment though.