Pride Parade/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A pride parade is held, empowering people of non-mainstream sexulity and/or gender identity. Onlookers may or may not like this, for various reasons.
 * Played Straight: The parade serves as a setting, background event or plot device.
 * Exaggerated: The portrayal of the parade focus on colorful but shallow stereotypes.
 * Justified: The characters have helped organize the event, or are looking forward to attending.
 * Inverted: A "Straight Pride" parade, or somebody talking about how there should be one.
 * Subverted:
 * Double Subverted:
 * Parodied: The paraders (and/or counter-protesters) are Strawman Political.
 * Deconstructed: Someone argues that Pride parades do nothing but glorify stereotypes of sexual and gender minorities, and don't do enough to focus on "normal" members of the community.
 * Reconstructed: Someone else retorts that a parade of gay accountants would be immensely boring, and would be more about fitting in than showcasing diversity.
 * Lampshaded:
 * Averted: The characters try to arrange a parade, but the local authorities forbid it for one reason or another.
 * Enforced:
 * Invoked: A real or hypothetical pride parade is mentioned.
 * Defied:
 * Discussed: A character (or the narrator) talks about the parade, analyzing some aspect of it.
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: People in the parade and/or audience are hilarious.
 * Played For Drama: The narrative bring up issues of hate crimes, homophobia, and so on.
 * Or whines in a serious tone about this horrible threat against the respective country's culture or dominant religion, if it's that kind of work.