People alive today have been trying to stop LGBTQIA people for fifty years and longer.
It has not worked. It never will. You lost.
You cannot stop us existing. You cannot stop us thriving. You cannot stop us being ourselves no matter what laws you pass, what torture you inflict or what death penalty you put on us.
We will be here when you are gone. You will die having failed to erase us because being LGBTQIA is part of humanity. It always has been. It always will be.
Pride exists because somewhere right now there is a kid wearing a straight jacket their whole life. Being told who they are is wrong. Facing bullying and harassment from their parents, their peers, their friends, the people around them who were taught hatred and bigotry and passed it on. And then they see us.
Thriving. Living a beautiful life. Loving who we want. Dressing how we want. Existing how we choose.
And something shifts. A door opens. A future becomes possible that nobody had shown them before.
That is why we celebrate Pride. That is why we will never stop. The more you push the more present we become in your lives until our existence is so normal that the next generation cannot imagine what the argument was ever about.
Have you not understood that yet?