The Michael Knowles Show - June 06, 2026


Michael Knowles REACTS To LGBTQ Instructions For Straight People


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It's Pride Month, which means it's time to talk about transphobia and the transphobic in the LGBTQ+ community during the month of pride. Gay pride month is a month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but some people still haven't gotten the message, so they're doing the last gasp of pride and some members of the LGBT community have just outlined the rules for straight people during what liberals call a sacred liturgical month.

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00:01:02.500 It's that time of year again. 0.99
00:01:05.140 Pride Month is upon us. 1.00
00:01:07.300 I don't like girls. 1.00
00:01:09.800 I, for one, consider this to be a month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 1.00
00:01:14.800 Tennessee, at least, considers this to be a month dedicated to the nuclear family.
00:01:19.920 But some people still haven't gotten the message, so they're doing the last gasp of pride.
00:01:25.600 And some members of the LGBT, LMNOP community have just outlined the rules for straight people during what the liberals call a sacred liturgical month.
00:01:35.480 This by way of TikTok. Take it away.
00:01:37.420 Hi, are you a straight person?
00:01:39.220 Nope.
00:01:39.620 Looking to get that special LGBTQIA plus person in your life a gift this pride season? 1.00
00:01:45.040 Nope.
00:01:45.300 How about this? 1.00
00:01:46.880 it's called leave us the fuck alone call your friends your senators your representatives 0.99
00:01:53.580 write the supreme court let them know that what lgbtqia plus people want this pride month 1.00
00:01:59.440 is to be left the fuck alone don't call me don't come by my house we're done best of all this gift 0.99
00:02:09.320 is free it costs you nothing at all you can just move on with your life while you leave us the 1.00
00:02:15.240 alone. Spread the word. Let the other straights know what we really want this Pride Month is
00:02:20.740 simply to be left the alone. They just want to be left alone. Just leave us alone, bigots. Just 1.00
00:02:28.140 leave us alone. And also redefine marriage from the level of the Supreme Court. And also give up 1.00
00:02:34.400 your bathrooms and let us go into the opposite bathroom. And also give up your sports leagues 0.72
00:02:38.880 and let us have men beat up women in sports. And also let us indoctrinate your kids. And also 1.00
00:02:43.860 let us castrate your kids. And also, and also, and also leave us alone. We definitely want to 1.00
00:02:50.380 just be left alone. We don't want to completely transform society and take up your attention all
00:02:55.280 the time. Just leave us alone. That's why we're making this video. I don't think anyone believes
00:03:05.980 that anymore. Some of us social conservatives were pointing out that the whole leave us alone
00:03:10.140 thing was obviously ridiculous from the start. But I don't even think that chick believes it 0.78
00:03:14.260 anymore. If she just wanted to be left alone, she'd just go do her own thing, right? She wouldn't be 1.00
00:03:18.860 in your algorithm. Next one. If you have a friend or a loved one who just transitioned and you don't 0.99
00:03:23.100 know what the to do to help them. Oh, spare me, spare me, spare me. Here are six things that you 1.00
00:03:29.520 can do to be a better trans ally. One, give them money. Unironically, transitioning is incredibly
00:03:35.820 expensive if you give them money you are helping them out the best way that you can this also
00:03:40.940 looks like buying them food or going shopping with them two talk to them the process of transitioning
00:03:47.100 can be incredibly isolating and lonely just spend time with them talk to them just just hang out
00:03:53.900 three if they're trans feminine teach them how to do makeup teach them how to wear clothes
00:03:58.460 let them know what the is going on the trans masculine teach them how to work out or teach
00:04:03.820 them how to how to dap up i don't know how to do it or use their preferred name and preferred
00:04:10.540 pronouns if you it up don't make a big deal out of it just say sorry and then use the correct ones
00:04:17.180 five speak up for them when they're not around you may notice that most people are genuinely
00:04:22.380 transphobic whether they are trying to or not and saying nothing makes you also a culprit of
00:04:27.660 transphobia especially with the current political climate kind of preying on the downfall of our
00:04:32.380 entire existence speak up or else you're compliant six cook for them transitioning is puberty number
00:04:39.240 two you know what you have to do during puberty uh you guessed it eat a ton of food so what do
00:04:44.480 you have to do cook a ton of food and then they'll be like and then you'll be like i'm a great person
00:04:50.400 also just treat them like a person okay bye i love you okay all right this guy until that the very
00:04:55.140 last part there this guy's at least being way more honest than the first chick who says you know what
00:05:00.760 we really want during Pride Month is nothing. We want nothing from you. Just leave us alone. 0.67
00:05:04.900 This guy says, hey, you know what we actually want during Pride Month is everything. You need
00:05:08.360 to focus on us all the time and give us everything and give us your money.
00:05:13.440 Give me money. Give me money. Give me money. Give me money. Give me money.
00:05:15.940 At least he's being honest. Give us your money, which they're demanding in this case, literally
00:05:20.920 like in a very direct way, but always are demanding in the sense that all the rules and
00:05:26.160 accommodations and new laws that they want to pass. Those do require your taxpayer money. So
00:05:31.400 they're always demanding that. But in this case, he's just making it totally direct. And then,
00:05:36.160 you know, cook for us and then lie for us by calling us the wrong pronouns and then
00:05:40.300 promote our propaganda even when we're not around and give us your food and give us everything.
00:05:44.580 So he's being direct about it. Then at the end, he said, treat us like a person. But he doesn't
00:05:48.500 really mean that. I'm a person. I have to have a life. Because they're not asking to be treated
00:05:54.460 treated like normal people. They're asking to be treated in a totally special category in a way
00:05:58.700 that is contrary to how you would treat normal people. You wouldn't just go up to a guy on the
00:06:01.300 street and give him all your money and give him all your food and lie on his behalf and all the
00:06:04.700 rest. The one thing he says here, though, that is kind of sad and I think is actually good advice
00:06:09.320 is talk to them. You should talk to them. And that's true. But when you talk to him, you shouldn't
00:06:13.820 lie. And what he's really saying is talk to us and lie and affirm our delusions. But the request
00:06:20.740 he makes that is good is he says talk to us and you should it's a good idea actually during during
00:06:25.200 pride month if you have to address this at all you should talk to people and just tell them the
00:06:29.440 truth and tell them you know it's not not great hey no judgment all god's children it's fine i was
00:06:36.080 gay once and you know it's not the center of your life like this guy wants it to be but in as much
00:06:41.320 as you have to deal with the issues you should tell them the truth that it's no no bueno and 0.89
00:06:45.380 they should knock it off next one be a good straight person in a gay bar if you're with a 1.00
00:06:49.380 at the bachelor party, don't come. 1.00
00:06:52.820 Get out.
00:06:53.660 Sorry. Leave.
00:06:54.480 Jesus.
00:06:55.320 Don't offer to make out when you're drunk.
00:06:56.980 If you want, we can make out.
00:06:58.460 No. 0.92
00:06:59.300 Don't start a sentence with, if I was gay.
00:07:00.820 If I was gay. 0.92
00:07:01.660 Well, you're not. 1.00
00:07:02.500 No, you're queer icons. 0.97
00:07:04.300 Rene Rapp. 0.70
00:07:05.700 Marcia P. Johnson.
00:07:07.140 Jonathan Bailey.
00:07:08.540 Buy me a drink.
00:07:09.500 This one's on you.
00:07:10.940 Know your history.
00:07:11.840 You know Stonewall isn't just a box.
00:07:13.240 Yeah, it was a series of protests
00:07:15.140 by the members of the LGBTQ community
00:07:17.280 in response to a police raid
00:07:18.540 It began on the early mornings of June 28th, 1969.
00:07:21.840 That was specific.
00:07:23.240 Do have fun and be a normal person.
00:07:24.860 Yes, yes, yes.
00:07:25.740 Without making yourself a center of pension.
00:07:28.400 And finally.
00:07:29.340 Give us money.
00:07:30.460 Oh my goodness.
00:07:32.640 Is this a new thing?
00:07:34.280 I didn't, I've never seen this.
00:07:35.500 And all the pride propaganda, which has been going on, what, for basically my entire life.
00:07:41.120 I've never seen this.
00:07:42.000 They're just asking for money.
00:07:43.600 It just comes down to just give me your money. 0.99
00:07:45.420 The black activists during BLM started to do that. 0.74
00:07:48.140 They tried to, in the early days of that kind of activism, they tried to make it not about
00:07:51.980 just a shakedown. It always kind of was a shakedown, mow mowing the flat catchers,
00:07:56.900 you know, and that sort of thing. But they made it really direct. Just give us your money. Here's
00:08:00.340 my cash app. Here's my PayPal. Here's my Venmo. Give me your money. But now the gays are doing
00:08:04.400 it too. That's interesting. I like this setup because the setup says, here's how you should 0.98
00:08:08.720 act when you go into a gay bar during pride month. That's a really, they're kind of slipping 1.00
00:08:13.060 in that premise there because what you could just do is don't go to gay bars. They mentioned
00:08:16.920 Stonewall, which was this gay bar where the gay rights movement supposedly began. And Stonewall
00:08:22.000 was a mafia bar where they did all sorts of creepy stuff and it was totally unsafe and failed
00:08:26.260 health inspections. And it was really just a den of depravity that the cops were right to shut down.
00:08:32.420 And if only they had succeeded, we would have been spared a lot of nonsense. But you know what
00:08:35.420 you could just do is just not, don't go to gay bars and you don't have to worry about any of 0.96
00:08:39.800 that stuff and you don't have to give them your money. Okay, next one. Here is a way to be a better 0.58
00:08:44.080 ally. Visibly show, maybe something on your bag or your clothing, that you are a safe space for
00:08:49.400 our community. Maybe something like a rainbow Mickey. If you attach it, it lets our community
00:08:55.240 know that you are a safe space. I'm a person. I'm not a space. A lot of the LGBT activism
00:09:03.920 reduces people down to just flesh, down to just sacks of meat, and reduces human beings down to 0.96
00:09:09.200 their worst inclinations or whatever. But you're not. You're not a space. You're a person. And you
00:09:13.780 don't have to wear a totem to affirm your membership in a cult or a pseudo-religion
00:09:19.940 that you're not part of. This is like that old Seinfeld episode where they say, wear the ribbon.
00:09:25.080 Actually, and that was about gay stuff. It was about solidarity with AIDS or whatever. But they
00:09:28.780 said like, you have to wear the ribbon, wear the ribbon, wear the pride flag. Who do you think you
00:09:32.200 are? Put the ribbon on. Hey, Cedric, Bob, this guy won't wear a ribbon. Who? Who doesn't want
00:09:40.380 to wear the ribbon. But that's over. That seems over to me. We reached the peak of that in 2023
00:09:45.800 and then it went downhill. And I think it went downhill because of the 2024 election where
00:09:50.020 Republicans specifically ran against all the LGBT stuff and won and won the popular vote for the 0.98
00:09:55.340 first time in 20 years and won a unified government and won so many races. I think that's over. I 0.98
00:09:59.520 don't think we have to wear the ribbon or the little totem on our bags or persons anymore.
00:10:04.140 Next one. You're straight and want to attempt pride? Nope. Here's what not to do. In Berlin,
00:10:08.040 you'll see people wearing extravagant outfits and a lot of nudity. People dress for their self
00:10:12.180 expression, not for your entertainment. If you want to take a picture, just ask. Pride is for
00:10:16.380 queer people. You're a guest at our party. Be respectful of that and let your queer friends 1.00
00:10:21.340 shine. It's their day. Don't forget that pride is still a protest. Make sure you understand the
00:10:26.140 true meaning and history of this special day. What's pride like where you live? Pride is a
00:10:30.960 protest of normal behavior. What is it protesting? What is it? All these displays. You have people
00:10:37.740 sometimes wear these weird costumes and you shouldn't. And this is our event, but you should
00:10:41.920 come, but only to support us. But don't support us the way you think you should support us. And
00:10:46.140 you should just give them money. So, okay. Yeah. I guess you shouldn't show up and you definitely
00:10:51.020 shouldn't dress up like some of the wackos that do the pride events, but really we just shouldn't 1.00
00:10:55.420 have the pride events. You shouldn't have it. If the pride events are a protest of normality, 1.00
00:11:00.560 then we obviously shouldn't have them because we should be normal. And if the, if the pride 0.83
00:11:04.220 events intrinsically involve all sorts of weird sex getups, then those should not be on Main
00:11:08.660 Street. And so we just shouldn't have them. And if you don't want normal people to show up to them,
00:11:12.760 then we definitely shouldn't have them, right? That's a pretty good argument to just shut the
00:11:17.180 whole thing down, which I think we're on the brink of doing anyway. You're fucking insane. 1.00
00:11:21.900 And you're fucking winning. Three ways you can support your queer friends. Number one, 1.00
00:11:27.060 be an active listener. There's a lot going on in the world right now, and a lot of us just want
00:11:30.960 be heard number two stay informed on lgbtq plus issues when you stay informed you'll be able to
00:11:36.240 have a proper conversation to give honest feedback along with advocate for your friend number three
00:11:41.040 create a safe space this means being respectful of everyone's identities and group settings and
00:11:45.840 correcting anyone who does not know how to use proper pronouns using gender neutral language
00:11:50.560 is key this helps people avoid assumptions if you found this helpful follow for more
00:11:55.120 Wow. What's so amazing about that video is it just feels so dated. It feels so old. It feels
00:12:03.120 like the sort of thing that millennials were complaining about boomers doing, which is just
00:12:07.060 rehashing all the old slogans of their hippie youth imagined or experienced. And we just say,
00:12:14.020 yeah, okay, boomer. That's what the millennials used to say. But now the millennials are the
00:12:16.900 boomers. The gay millennials are the hippie boomers now. And it all just feels sort of old 0.99
00:12:23.800 and tired. Even, even reacting to this stuff, it feels kind of old, doesn't it? It feels kind of
00:12:29.900 passe. I can't muster outrage here. I mostly just feel pity reacting to these people because it's
00:12:36.220 over. I mean, we still have to call attention to it in the sense that some corporations are still
00:12:41.640 pushing this stuff. Some celebrities, J-Lo has her stupid pride video. The MLB, I'm sorry to say, 1.00
00:12:46.740 the most straight sports league is still leaning into gays. Even the New York Yankees drives me 0.99
00:12:52.720 crazy. It drives me nuts. I mean, we're not the Mets guys. We don't have to do that. But leave
00:12:57.040 the gay stuff for the NFL or whatever. But so they're still pushing it. Woke isn't dead in the 1.00
00:13:01.960 sense that they're just waiting to come back. They're waiting for their next opportunity after
00:13:06.620 they got pummeled in 2024. But it just feels so passe. You know, this is what a lot of us were
00:13:11.900 calling for a long time. They said, look, this is really awful. And there are tons of bad things
00:13:16.300 going on. And like girls are getting concussions in sports because big guys are beating them up
00:13:20.240 and you're castrating kids
00:13:21.280 and it's just the whole thing.
00:13:22.420 It's really awful.
00:13:23.560 But the one silver lining
00:13:24.700 is that reality will reassert itself in the end.
00:13:27.060 And this will be passe.
00:13:28.400 This is going to be like
00:13:29.100 your parents wearing bell bottoms.
00:13:30.220 You're going to make fun of it someday. 1.00
00:13:31.240 All the weird millennial gay stuff, 1.00
00:13:32.640 you're going to make fun of it. 1.00
00:13:33.720 A lot of them won't have kids 1.00
00:13:34.800 because they're doing weird gay stuff. 1.00
00:13:35.920 But we will react to that. 0.99
00:13:38.760 The Zoomers, 1.00
00:13:39.940 in which we place a lot of our hope, 1.00
00:13:41.720 and Gen Alpha,
00:13:42.300 they're going to look to this and say, 0.99
00:13:43.340 that's really old and cringe and silly. 0.95
00:13:45.840 And I think we've reached that tipping point now. 0.95
00:13:49.220 It's still going on,
00:13:50.120 but it's it's definitely not cool it's not not hip to the jive you know okay next one hello my
00:13:56.280 people here are things that give but what about straight pride month the same energy you'll get
00:14:01.340 it you'll get it once you see the things i'm about a list you'll understand you'll get it
00:14:04.820 wearing these running shoes with a normal outfit however this doesn't apply if you're like the
00:14:09.940 weird kid that like talks to bugs at recess and you wear these with a normal outfit because you're 0.93
00:14:14.320 probably going to be like really queer when you're older. So I have no idea what this woman's even 1.00
00:14:21.200 talking about. This woman is so in her own head. So in like niche subcultures of subcultures of 1.00
00:14:26.660 ironies of subcultures, I don't even get what she's trying to say. Let me see if I can,
00:14:31.700 if I can figure it out. Nothing against the actors, especially, you know, he was in red,
00:14:36.080 white and royal blue. We love him, but just like in general, this, this genre of Netflix movie
00:14:42.400 gives straight pride to me. And I don't even need to explain it. You get it. Okay. Not only
00:14:48.100 hating cats, but like every time you see a cat, feeling the need to tell people that you don't
00:14:53.140 like cats, like why you hate something that brings other people joy. Are cats specifically
00:14:58.700 an LGBT thing specifically for LGBT girls with crazy colored hair? Cause that is the greatest 1.00
00:15:07.300 vindication of the Salem witch trials I can imagine like in the in the old folklore of the 0.93
00:15:12.720 witches the witches had familiars which were cats so cats were sort of symbols of witches or the
00:15:19.500 demonic or the occult and I don't I don't really like cats because they drive women crazy and
00:15:25.480 they're what I don't but I don't hate cats or anything but that if this woman is claiming that 0.62
00:15:30.820 No, a big part of the LGBT-ism is really liking cats, having a disordered affection for cats. 0.52
00:15:39.620 A lot of things are starting to make sense again to me. 0.97
00:15:42.160 Keep going.
00:15:42.620 You know what's interesting?
00:15:43.320 When I was in the closet, I was like, I don't get along with cats.
00:15:46.720 That was me trying to act straight because gay people understand animals with boundaries. 0.99
00:15:52.800 I mean, him in general, but also just like seeing a photo of a man like this and thinking it's hot. 1.00
00:15:58.900 Oh, is that Morgan Wallen? 1.00
00:15:59.780 Black homies would never. 1.00
00:16:01.500 Gay men would never. 1.00
00:16:05.400 Men that have a Fender Stratocaster in their room 1.00
00:16:07.720 suck at playing electric guitar 0.65
00:16:09.020 but post videos of themselves doing it anyways. 0.99
00:16:11.920 I'm a woman that plays electric guitar.
00:16:13.800 That is straight.
00:16:14.500 That's pretty straight.
00:16:15.120 I can shred and no one believes it.
00:16:17.800 No one believes me because I'm a girl.
00:16:19.280 It is assumed that you should be good at electric guitar 1.00
00:16:22.160 and you still suck. 1.00
00:16:23.980 That's embarrassing. 1.00
00:16:24.900 That's so embarrassing.
00:16:26.120 Buying a sign that looks like this unironically.
00:16:29.040 Like, this font in general, this, like, type of painted.
00:16:32.700 Put a pause here.
00:16:33.280 That's not true.
00:16:33.800 She's, like, totally wrong about that. 0.99
00:16:35.980 The bougie, suburban, live, laugh, love kinds of signs, yes, they are bougie and suburban and womanly.
00:16:44.000 You know, it's, like, 42-year-old suburban women love those signs. 0.96
00:16:48.580 But that is also why gays love that kind of aesthetic, too, which is a little bit kitsch and a little saccharine and sentimental. 1.00
00:16:55.500 Gays like that stuff. 1.00
00:16:56.860 How do you know that? 1.00
00:16:58.640 look, I'm from New York. I went to a very gay university. I lived in Los Angeles. I know for 0.97
00:17:02.840 a fact, are you, you're telling me gays don't like kitsch? Are you kidding me? What are you 1.00
00:17:07.640 talking? Do you, I, this woman knows nothing about the gay aesthetic. Keep going. 0.99
00:17:12.040 This like type of painted wood that's supposed to look rustic, straight pride, straight pride.
00:17:17.860 Oh, no, hold on. Now I get it. Fair enough. No, no. She's saying if you buy the kitsch signs,
00:17:23.420 the live, laugh, love kind of stuff, which is intended for straight suburban women of a certain
00:17:29.720 age. But then you put them up, but not in the way that the gays put them up, which is in a kind of 1.00
00:17:35.220 ironic, campy way. If you just put them up earnestly, that is very straight. The signs were 1.00
00:17:44.160 made for straight middle-aged women. So if you're a straight middle-aged woman using them, that's 1.00
00:17:51.380 straight, but really they should only be used ironically by gays, which is, which is gay. 0.91
00:17:59.720 I get a lot of this stuff. Like I can understand it intellectually. I see where it's coming from. 0.97
00:18:04.740 I can critique it. Whoa, there's a lot of brainpower in this room. We got Michael and
00:18:10.200 Oscar, the two smartest guys in the office. But this is, I'm having a American psycho moment.
00:18:15.600 I'm having a Patrick Bateman moment where when Bateman goes up to the homeless guy, you and I have nothing in common. 0.91
00:18:22.960 He kills him. 0.99
00:18:23.800 Spoiler alert, he kills him. 1.00
00:18:25.240 I don't want to kill anybody. 0.98
00:18:26.560 Don't want to kill anybody. 1.00
00:18:27.360 But I'm just saying I'm having one of these moments of I actually don't really have any common cultural touch points with this woman. 1.00
00:18:37.140 She is speaking such a foreign language. 1.00
00:18:39.480 i don't even i don't even know how to engage with it in a way that is sardonic or critical or i just 0.96
00:18:47.820 don't even i don't even get it i'm at a loss the lesson has failed on me i will i will persevere
00:18:57.960 through pride as i always have i've learned no lessons i've not been transformed in any way
00:19:05.240 other than to feel even more distant.
00:19:08.820 See you next time.