The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles REACTS To LGBTQ Instructions For Straight People

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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.

The Michael Knowles Show - June 06, 2026

Michael Knowles REACTS To LGBTQ Instructions For Straight People

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