I misspoke if that was the intent you got from it Ardy. So far as I know, no one is forced to attend a Pride Parade, and it was in that context we were speaking.

I am, however, forced into many Christian practices every day and only when the get imposed on me personally and intrusively do I object.

Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul