Straight Pride- Straight Up Satire

A Straight Pride Parade held in Boston on August 31st, 2019 by an promotion calling itself Super Happy Fun America sparked controversy and protests. The most semi-coherent and widely spouted argument against the event is that straight people are not marginalized or oppressed so they "do not need a parade". I do not know when it became necessary to be oppressed to celebrate anything or have a parade. I know very little about the promotion or what is really in the founders hearts and minds but I would easily concede it could meet the definition of a "troll" event, in the online vernacular. More importantly and to the point though, it is clearly satirical.

Satire- trenchant wit, irony or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly. (Merriam-Webster)

One may argue it is mean to make light of the struggle certain people have experienced for being abnormal, which is a completely reasonable response. However, I think the "folly" this event exposes is the completely unreasonable response it actually receives.  First we have a president of a college, Lee Pelton, Calling it "a perversion". Is the irony lost?  What is it "perverting"?  The meaning and purpose of a parade?  Free Speech?  Clearly it is not perverting the design and purpose for sex.  In order to argue against people celebrating something so mundane in fact, people seem to have to impute the motive of hate to everyone involved.  I saw several live-streams where protestors take to calling everyone there for the parade a "Nazi", even people just there to report.  Then they start chanting, "Hate speech is not free speech", and "Boston hates you." All this in the name of "tolerance and diversity".    There is no shortage of clear examples of this complete and utter "folly" in America and the rest of the world today.  Speech is Speech .  Expression is Expression. There is good reason these should remain free.