Every LGBTQ person in the world who celebrates Pride understands the sense of pride I’m talking about. Whether they use the word fierté, orgullo or something else, they mean a rejection of shame and a fierce determination to publicly claim dignity and self-respect the world works so hard to deny them.

If you can’t understand that, if you insist on shoehorning prescriptive dictionary definitions around a concept to make it something altogether different from what it actually is, I feel sorry for you.

You need to open up your mind and think more broadly. You need to work harder to understand other people and not insist you know their thoughts and motivations better than they do.

Since 1970, Pride marches have had nothing to do with selfishness. You can keep insisting to the contrary, but you will remain fundamentally incorrect.

Again, I suggest you study the selfless history of LGBTQ activism to inform yourself about what Pride is really about.