Charlie Kirk guest host says Pride Month is “cultural tyranny” and “we should just get rid of it altogether”
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From the June 3, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
ANDREW KOLVET (GUEST HOST): Well, I totally agree. I mean, listen — and Charlie put out a tweet to this extent, but I couldn't agree more.
Pride — most people will accept that two grown adults have freedom within the privacy of their home. Nobody wants to be policing that. I mean, some people do, but, like, the vast majority of Americans are not interested in that. Right? But Pride was fundamentally —
ALEX MARLOW (GUEST): We don't necessarily approve, but we're not looking to ban it or really even talk about it all that much.
KOLVET: Yeah, exactly. Like, I have other things I'm much more interested in —
MARLOW: That's right.
KOLVET: Than two adults' sex life, that I may find might may find disgusting or uncomfortable or whatever. But that's, you know, that's my right to feel that way. It's their right to do whatever. I don't wanna hear about it. I don't wanna talk about it. Secondly, though, what the the fundamental flaw of Pride was is that it was coercive.
MARLOW: That's right.
KOLVET: It was designed to force not only acceptance — the thing we just talked about, it's not what we're talking about. It was designed to push the limits and then make you celebrate, forced celebration, and then forced participation. Your kids will hold the the rainbow flag in their hand and cheer it on, or your kids will have to talk about it or act it out or write essays on it or watch it on TV. They can't escape it.
It's fundamentally coercive. It's a cultural tyranny of sorts, and I think we should just get rid of it altogether. I mean, that's where I'm at. I do not want Pride Month anymore in my country. I find it corrosive. I find it unproductive, destructive, and morally repugnant when you see the way that they go about in the streets, you know, grown men whipping each other, wearing leather straps.
You got, like, Scott Wiener, the state senator out of California who's pictured doing these types of things, celebrating. It's — you cannot normalize that type type of behavior and still have a moral and upright culture. You just simply can't —
MARLOW: You can't.
KOLVET: And I would feel the same, Alex, if it was straight couples doing the same thing out in the middle of the street. There's no place for that in polite society.