[quote=@Rocketman]I'm not sure I understand your last point about the assumptions and practices of patriotism being extended to pro-heterosexuality. Can you please expand upon this?[/quote]

Well, the gist of what I mean is that patriotism creates a sense of the tribal "other" where we are in competition with those who do not belong to our group. You wouldn't want to foster the same feeling in heterosexuals toward non-hetero's.

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It fulfils an emotional desire. There's a demand for it, as evidenced by it being prominent enough to trend on Facebook and Twitter. Beyond that, I could ask, why does it need a purpose? What purpose is there to Groundhog day, a day where an oversized rodent inaccurately predicts the coming season based on whether it gazes at its own shadow or not? People celebrate stupid shit all the time.
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Does it though? I think [@Rica] alludes to basically how I see the the calls for heterosexual pride, in that i'm not convinced there is an actual real desire for days or months set aside for the celebration of it. All of the calls for such a thing always came off as peevishness to me, like people are saying it because they want to score points against the other team by pointing out "Well you get to celebrate and we don't." I can't imagine anybody actually desires a celebration to occur because I can't imagine what you could even do with it beside say "Good thing we ain't gay."
 
Groundhog day is a weird tradition. It just sort of... happened. We don't really have a tradition of times set aside for hetereosexual pride. I mean, I guess we could always renew Saturnalia, but that would be sexual pride in general. Christmas+Orgies would be pretty boss tho