We’ve seen the collapse of a lot of supposedly “grassroots” movements ever since Donald Trump took office. BLM, as we’ve discussed, has literally been dismantled on the streets of Washington, D.C. — as in, the mayor removed the BLM graffiti from the road and tore up “BLM Plaza.” No one even pretended to care about that, even though just a few years ago, it would’ve been considered blasphemy against George Floyd. But in 2025, there was no rioting. There wasn’t even really a protest.
And of course the Women’s March is also completely demoralized and gutted. When Trump was inaugurated back in 2017, half a million protesters reportedly participated in the so-called “Women’s March” in downtown Washington D.C. They claimed it was the biggest single-day protest in the history of this country. But for Trump’s second inauguration earlier this year, only a few thousand people participated in the so-called “People’s March,” even though the “People’s March” was supposed to be more inclusive. They expanded their branding from “women” to “people,” and yet they still lost about 99% of their manpower — or I should probably say people power.
It’s enough to make you wonder how many of these movements were ever really “grassroots” in the first place. To what extent were they relying on funding that’s no longer there? And where did that funding come from? These are questions that are worth asking, especially because we’re seeing this phenomenon happen more and more often. As Donald Trump kills federal funding for various NGOs and nonprofits, and as major corporations decide to scale back their activism, some of the Left’s biggest protest movements are falling apart. They’re proving to be unsustainable. It’s almost as if they were never actually that popular in the first place.
Maybe the most extraordinary example of this phenomenon is the current state of “Pride Month,” which is set to take place in June. When we released my film “What is a Woman?” back in 2022, Pride Month had the backing of pretty much every Fortune 500 company on the planet. The organizers of various “pride parades” were flush with cash. They were setting the dominant narrative — one that valorized hedonism, narcissism, perversion, and child abuse. It was never explained exactly why these people needed lavish parades all over the country, for weeks on end, in order to celebrate their sexual interests. We were just supposed to accept it, as a kind of quasi-religious ritual. Indeed, many people did accept it.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
But just three years later, it’s clear that whatever power these people once had, they don’t have it anymore. We are now gearing up for the most muted, small-scale pride month that we’ve seen in a very long time. The organizers of some of the largest “pride parades” in the country are currently scrambling to raise money because their major corporate sponsors have stopped writing checks. That includes sponsors who have been involved with these San Francisco “pride” events going back for more than a decade. That has, of course, led to a funding shortfall that, at the moment, is threatening to derail San Francisco’s pride month, which is probably the largest in the country. Yes, it turns out that they need millions of dollars to prance naked in the streets and demonstrate their sexual preferences to as many children as possible. Watch:
When they say that they ended their relationship with Meta because Meta doesn’t do “fact-checking anymore,” they really mean that Meta has stopped banning people for stating basic biological facts. And when they say that Meta has given up on DEI, they mean that Meta will stop discriminating against applicants on the basis of their race or gender. Those policy changes were apparently a red line for the organization running the San Francisco Pride Parade, which is somehow classified as a nonprofit.
But in context, it looks a lot like a “you can’t fire me, I quit” situation. It seems like Meta dropped the pride parade, and not the other way around, given that a bunch of other major sponsors have bailed on the event as well. As you heard, the list of sponsors who have given up on San Francisco’s pride month include Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, the wine company La Crema, and Diageo, which makes Smirnoff and Guinness. So the makers of Bud Light have apparently realized that sponsoring degeneracy is not, in fact, good business. All it took was one of the most successful conservative boycotts in a generation to make them come around. Now, a bunch of other alcoholic beverage makers, including some of Anheuser-Busch’s rivals, are pre-emptively making the same decision.
As a result, the organizers now say they’re going to “knock on every door” in San Francisco as part of a desperate, last-minute bid for cash. In another interview, the organizer of this Pride event in San Francisco offers some more insight into how dire the situation has become. And in this conversation, it becomes more clear that Meta indeed made the decision to stop funding these people, not the other way around. Watch:
If you can get past the depravity, these people are actually kind of entertaining to watch. This person is trying to demonstrate that the Pride parade is really grassroots and anti-corporate. This is their way of sticking it to Meta and also Google apparently, which seems to be dropping the event as well. Accordingly, we learn that the corporations are placed at the back of the parade, and the nonprofits are at the front. You might think, “Hey, that actually sounds somewhat principled for an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-style pride parade with the theme of “resistance,”” which is what they’re going with this year. It’s just like the French Revolution — except, instead of killing the elites, they put their floats in the back. Other than that, it’s basically the same thing.
WATCH: Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman?” on DailyWire+
But then we’re informed that there’s a big asterisk to this highly principled revolutionary, anti-capitalist stance — which is that corporations that pay a very large amount of money can still buy their way to the front of the line. In other words, in the same breath that these activists claim that they care more about their mission than the money, they admit that they’re willing to make an exception if a mega-corporation — ideally a Big Pharma giant — can come up with the right amount of cash. Then they can do whatever they want.
Read between the lines, and it’s obvious that this nonprofit is running a pretty transparent grift. This is a shakedown operation, essentially. That’s exactly what you’d expect when a bunch of highly immoral people get together and plan an event, of course. And that’s exactly what you get with the organizers of the San Francisco Pride Month. At various points in different interviews, this organizer essentially admits that this whole operation is a shakedown. Watch:
It’s like watching an unkempt, delusional, homeless ex-mobster shaking down the local businesses for protection money. They’re threatening companies like Meta and Google and Comcast, as if these people have any leverage whatsoever. They’re still acting like we’re back in 2020, and most Americans haven’t yet become completely fed up with the insanity that so-called “pride parades” represent.
But people are fed up with it, because the “gay pride movement,” such as it is, has totally backfired. The best thing the LGBT activists could have done — if they really wanted their lifestyle choices to be normalized and accepted — is act normal. All they had to do was keep their clothes on and just behave like regular people. Instead they put on leather bondage gear and danced in the street in front of children. (And in some cases, they did a lot more than just dance). They pushed for the tolerance of increasingly deranged lifestyles and sexual behaviors. They demanded more and more “tolerance” until the tolerance well ran dry. At this rate, it’s only a matter of time until we follow in Hungary’s footsteps, and ban pride parades where children could be present. We are witnessing the death of the “pride movement,” including pride parades and pride month.
At the moment, various far-Left publications appear to be realizing this. They’re melting down in response.
From Pink News:
San Francisco publication SFist has called out companies including Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and British multinational alcoholic drinks company, Diageo, for pulling support for the event, calling the decision to back away ‘shameful fair-weather-friend behaviour in a time of frightening fascist action.’
So now they’re lashing out in hysterics, because they realize the money’s not coming back. Every normal person who sees them react like this can tell, immediately, how unhinged and unstable they are.
It was always destined to end this way. The LGBT movement, at its core, is a Marxist movement that despises western civilization and everything it was built on — namely Christianity. That’s why, at the school board meeting we discussed yesterday in Illinois, one of the trans activists railed against the so-called “white god.” That’s why they show up, in large numbers, to demand that young girls undress in front of male students. The more you let these people speak, the more overt and obvious their perversion and their anti-Christian animus becomes.
Put simply, they just couldn’t quit while they were ahead. Even when they had every major corporation and the entire federal government on their side, it wasn’t enough. Their never-ending drive to push further and further and get more and more extreme is, of course, what makes them so dangerous. But it’s also what makes them beatable. And it’s why, like BLM and the Women’s March and so many other supposedly “grassroots” movements on the Left, they are failing.
We have seen “pride” in action. We have been subjected to nationwide celebrations of one of the seven deadly sins. And now, as was inevitable, we are seeing the fall.
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We’ve seen the collapse of a lot of supposedly “grassroots” movements ever since Donald Trump took office. BLM, as we’ve discussed, has literally been dismantled on the streets of Washington, D.C. — as in, the mayor removed the BLM graffiti from the road and tore up “BLM Plaza.” No one even pretended to care about that, even though just a few years ago, it would’ve been considered blasphemy against George Floyd. But in 2025, there was no rioting. There wasn’t even really a protest.
And of course the Women’s March is also completely demoralized and gutted. When Trump was inaugurated back in 2017, half a million protesters reportedly participated in the so-called “Women’s March” in downtown Washington D.C. They claimed it was the biggest single-day protest in the history of this country. But for Trump’s second inauguration earlier this year, only a few thousand people participated in the so-called “People’s March,” even though the “People’s March” was supposed to be more inclusive. They expanded their branding from “women” to “people,” and yet they still lost about 99% of their manpower — or I should probably say people power.
It’s enough to make you wonder how many of these movements were ever really “grassroots” in the first place. To what extent were they relying on funding that’s no longer there? And where did that funding come from? These are questions that are worth asking, especially because we’re seeing this phenomenon happen more and more often. As Donald Trump kills federal funding for various NGOs and nonprofits, and as major corporations decide to scale back their activism, some of the Left’s biggest protest movements are falling apart. They’re proving to be unsustainable. It’s almost as if they were never actually that popular in the first place.
Maybe the most extraordinary example of this phenomenon is the current state of “Pride Month,” which is set to take place in June. When we released my film “What is a Woman?” back in 2022, Pride Month had the backing of pretty much every Fortune 500 company on the planet. The organizers of various “pride parades” were flush with cash. They were setting the dominant narrative — one that valorized hedonism, narcissism, perversion, and child abuse. It was never explained exactly why these people needed lavish parades all over the country, for weeks on end, in order to celebrate their sexual interests. We were just supposed to accept it, as a kind of quasi-religious ritual. Indeed, many people did accept it.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
But just three years later, it’s clear that whatever power these people once had, they don’t have it anymore. We are now gearing up for the most muted, small-scale pride month that we’ve seen in a very long time. The organizers of some of the largest “pride parades” in the country are currently scrambling to raise money because their major corporate sponsors have stopped writing checks. That includes sponsors who have been involved with these San Francisco “pride” events going back for more than a decade. That has, of course, led to a funding shortfall that, at the moment, is threatening to derail San Francisco’s pride month, which is probably the largest in the country. Yes, it turns out that they need millions of dollars to prance naked in the streets and demonstrate their sexual preferences to as many children as possible. Watch:
When they say that they ended their relationship with Meta because Meta doesn’t do “fact-checking anymore,” they really mean that Meta has stopped banning people for stating basic biological facts. And when they say that Meta has given up on DEI, they mean that Meta will stop discriminating against applicants on the basis of their race or gender. Those policy changes were apparently a red line for the organization running the San Francisco Pride Parade, which is somehow classified as a nonprofit.
But in context, it looks a lot like a “you can’t fire me, I quit” situation. It seems like Meta dropped the pride parade, and not the other way around, given that a bunch of other major sponsors have bailed on the event as well. As you heard, the list of sponsors who have given up on San Francisco’s pride month include Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, the wine company La Crema, and Diageo, which makes Smirnoff and Guinness. So the makers of Bud Light have apparently realized that sponsoring degeneracy is not, in fact, good business. All it took was one of the most successful conservative boycotts in a generation to make them come around. Now, a bunch of other alcoholic beverage makers, including some of Anheuser-Busch’s rivals, are pre-emptively making the same decision.
As a result, the organizers now say they’re going to “knock on every door” in San Francisco as part of a desperate, last-minute bid for cash. In another interview, the organizer of this Pride event in San Francisco offers some more insight into how dire the situation has become. And in this conversation, it becomes more clear that Meta indeed made the decision to stop funding these people, not the other way around. Watch:
If you can get past the depravity, these people are actually kind of entertaining to watch. This person is trying to demonstrate that the Pride parade is really grassroots and anti-corporate. This is their way of sticking it to Meta and also Google apparently, which seems to be dropping the event as well. Accordingly, we learn that the corporations are placed at the back of the parade, and the nonprofits are at the front. You might think, “Hey, that actually sounds somewhat principled for an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-style pride parade with the theme of “resistance,”” which is what they’re going with this year. It’s just like the French Revolution — except, instead of killing the elites, they put their floats in the back. Other than that, it’s basically the same thing.
WATCH: Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman?” on DailyWire+
But then we’re informed that there’s a big asterisk to this highly principled revolutionary, anti-capitalist stance — which is that corporations that pay a very large amount of money can still buy their way to the front of the line. In other words, in the same breath that these activists claim that they care more about their mission than the money, they admit that they’re willing to make an exception if a mega-corporation — ideally a Big Pharma giant — can come up with the right amount of cash. Then they can do whatever they want.
Read between the lines, and it’s obvious that this nonprofit is running a pretty transparent grift. This is a shakedown operation, essentially. That’s exactly what you’d expect when a bunch of highly immoral people get together and plan an event, of course. And that’s exactly what you get with the organizers of the San Francisco Pride Month. At various points in different interviews, this organizer essentially admits that this whole operation is a shakedown. Watch:
It’s like watching an unkempt, delusional, homeless ex-mobster shaking down the local businesses for protection money. They’re threatening companies like Meta and Google and Comcast, as if these people have any leverage whatsoever. They’re still acting like we’re back in 2020, and most Americans haven’t yet become completely fed up with the insanity that so-called “pride parades” represent.
But people are fed up with it, because the “gay pride movement,” such as it is, has totally backfired. The best thing the LGBT activists could have done — if they really wanted their lifestyle choices to be normalized and accepted — is act normal. All they had to do was keep their clothes on and just behave like regular people. Instead they put on leather bondage gear and danced in the street in front of children. (And in some cases, they did a lot more than just dance). They pushed for the tolerance of increasingly deranged lifestyles and sexual behaviors. They demanded more and more “tolerance” until the tolerance well ran dry. At this rate, it’s only a matter of time until we follow in Hungary’s footsteps, and ban pride parades where children could be present. We are witnessing the death of the “pride movement,” including pride parades and pride month.
At the moment, various far-Left publications appear to be realizing this. They’re melting down in response.
From Pink News:
San Francisco publication SFist has called out companies including Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and British multinational alcoholic drinks company, Diageo, for pulling support for the event, calling the decision to back away ‘shameful fair-weather-friend behaviour in a time of frightening fascist action.’
So now they’re lashing out in hysterics, because they realize the money’s not coming back. Every normal person who sees them react like this can tell, immediately, how unhinged and unstable they are.
It was always destined to end this way. The LGBT movement, at its core, is a Marxist movement that despises western civilization and everything it was built on — namely Christianity. That’s why, at the school board meeting we discussed yesterday in Illinois, one of the trans activists railed against the so-called “white god.” That’s why they show up, in large numbers, to demand that young girls undress in front of male students. The more you let these people speak, the more overt and obvious their perversion and their anti-Christian animus becomes.
Put simply, they just couldn’t quit while they were ahead. Even when they had every major corporation and the entire federal government on their side, it wasn’t enough. Their never-ending drive to push further and further and get more and more extreme is, of course, what makes them so dangerous. But it’s also what makes them beatable. And it’s why, like BLM and the Women’s March and so many other supposedly “grassroots” movements on the Left, they are failing.
We have seen “pride” in action. We have been subjected to nationwide celebrations of one of the seven deadly sins. And now, as was inevitable, we are seeing the fall.
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