"It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me and people like you," sang Oliver Anthony in his hit "Rich Men North of Richmond."
The song resonated with Americans of all kinds because it was something of an anthem for the regular folk. The people who aren't living their lives by coastal doctrine or elitist philosophy. His song shot to the top of the charts, bumping off major artists to get there. It was pretty clear that America was ready for something real and relatable.
Fast-forward to June 2024 and the corporations and the media are celebrating "Pride Month," the time of year when corporations pretend to care about the LGBT community for those sweet ESG bucks. So committed to Pride Month was Google that it completely ignored the D-Day anniversary in order to celebrate an LGBT person no one ever heard of and likely already forgot about today.
Corporations are obsessed with shoving LGBT "love" down your throat that many Americans have gotten beyond sick of it. Even a huge chunk of the LGBT community don't celebrate Pride Month, mostly because it's not really about the LGBT community. It's a political holiday where activists get to exert their power over anyone willing to submit.
(READ: It's Only Pride Month for Corporations)
Enter Idaho bar owner Mark Fitzpatrick who decided to give everyone a taste of normalcy by announcing that he and his bar, the Old State Saloon, were celebrating "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month."
According to Fox News, Fitzpatrick thought it was time to celebrate the straight, as God designed us:
"I was thinking of a way that we could celebrate the other side of sexuality, heterosexuality, the way God designed it. And that's kind of where I'm at with people that support us and are like-minded. So we decided to do Heterosexual Awesomeness Month and then launched it and boy, oh boy, did it take off," Fitzpatrick told Fox News Digital.
Fitzpatrick’s bar, the Old State Saloon, announced ahead of June that it would be kicking off its first salute to heterosexuality with discounts and free beer for heterosexual men, women and couples throughout the month.
Fitzpatrick says that while he's definitely gotten his fair share of "crass" and "rude" comments, the reaction has been "overwhelmingly positive":
"We've had a whole bunch of people come in, in person into our saloon. We've had people driving way out of their way. We had a couple come in, they drove 400 miles out of their way on their trip across the country yesterday...and other people have said they're going to fly in from out of state. Other people said next time they're in the state, they're going to stop by and support us," Fitzpatrick said.
Since the bar announced the event, Old State Saloon has offered Heterosexual Awesomeness merchandise and reported its biggest Monday sales this past week.
The Idaho bar owner said that he thinks other businesses should pick up the "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month," noting from the response he's gotten that "the country is ready to kind of stand up and say, ‘hey, what about this? And this is a good thing to celebrate, and let's do that.’"
I think the man is right, and I think small and local businesses will have a lot of benefits to celebrating "Heterosexual Awareness Month," and the more businesses that celebrate it the more real it becomes.
Ultimately, so many people are sick of "Pride Month." As I said earlier, it's not even about LGBT people, it's about cry-bullying and corporate submission to political activist investors. It's become an avenue for activists to attack traditional beliefs and attempt to get close to children. It's blatantly disrespectful to more important causes.
People are thirsty for something real and normal. They want to not feel like the world is "othering" them all the time for just being how God made them. Celebrating the people who literally keep the human race going by being straight and forming families is no small thing. We're literally necessary for the continuation of our species.
Being straight is great. It sure as hell seems to come with a lot less drama.
Encourage your local business to pick up the celebration of Heterosexual Awareness Month. Let the media and major corporations have their Pride Month if they want it. The money is clearly in celebrating straightness, and small businesses should get in on it. God knows they need it in this economy.
