Its not a counter protest to the protest itself, but a protest to the message specifying a single group. The idea is that all walks of life deserve respect, not one particular one. Here you say that straight groups being proud shows a negative view on gay, so by that same logic, wouldn't positive views on being gay show negatively on straight? Oh, but you say its because the straight group isn't marginalized. So because one group is in a different situation, they aren't entitled to the same things?
The difference is gay pride was born out of the need to exist without persecution. All walks of life deserve respect, yes, but only one of these two groups has to actively fight to get it, and that's gay pride. The history of straight pride is also one of ridicule and criticism against the LGBT community, and I suggest you look into that history before posting nonsense.
Gay pride comes from a place of necessity to be treated with respect. Straight pride comes as a petty response to gay pride. That's a big difference, and it's what makes one positive and one negative.
Sounds like discrimination to me...
Nobody is claiming that straight pride parades shouldn't be allowed to take place, so it's not discrimination. The fact that you aren't using the the word
discrimination properly is evidence, however, that straight pride probably doesn't need to exist.
Who are you to say if someone is allowed to feel marginalized or not?
Heterosexuals, objectively, are not a marginalized group. That's another term you're misusing. Heterosexuals are the majority, and LGBT people are the minority. In addition, LGBT people are still very much treated as unequal under the law.
This logic is everything that is keeping us from making any real progress in the world.
No, what's hindering progress is the idea that heterosexuals are as marginalized a group as LGBT people. If that is the perception, then progress cannot be made with regard to gay rights.
It's similar to the "all lives matter" mantra in response to "black lives matter." We can all agree that all lives matter, but using it as a response to "black lives matter" distracts from the issue and prevents progress. It would be like somebody stealing an old woman's purse, and in response to the old woman's cries, a man says, "all purses matter." All purses do matter, but that doesn't do anything to solve the specific problem being addressed, and it hurts the old woman. "All lives matter" hurts "black lives matter." "Straight pride" hurts "gay pride."