Social media is buzzing with the pronouncement of June 29 as “Heterosexual Pride Day,” which appears just as cities, provinces and states around the world celebrate June as Gay Pride month.

While the hashtag #HeterosexualPrideDay is trending, the response has been largely negative — and humourous — for the group of self-proclaimed straight males and females.

“I’ll never forget the day I sat down my family to tell them I was straight,” tweeted Toronto comedian Peter Anthony. “I haven’t spoken to my father in years.”

“I don’t have anything against straight people,” tweeted Parker Molloy of Chicago. “I just don’t think they should force their lifestyles on the rest of us.”

Tweeted Tom Riddle of Amsterdam: “y’all so brave. must be hard being able to hold hands and kiss in public without getting attacked”

Heterosexual Pride Day defender ThioJoe tweeted an obscene comment to all those who ridiculed him on Twitter.

He also tweeted: “Reading through #HeterosexualPrideDay tweets. Apparently straight white men aren’t allowed to be proud.”

Asked by the Star how he would celebrate Heterosexual Pride Day, ThioJoe replied: “I don’t celebrate it. I’ve never heard of this ‘holiday,’ it’s not even real. I just don’t understand the outrage.”

Much of the social media opposition comes from those who argue that the LGBT community has had to struggle to win limited equality and respect, while those things have always been handed to heterosexuals.

“If #HeterosexualPrideDay is confusing, you may know it by its other names: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday,” tweeted Mitch Goldstein of Rochester, N.Y.

“Really? #HeterosexualPrideDay What’s next, #BreathingAirDay ?,” added Tweeter Dapper29.

Hannah on Manchester tweeted the same idea: “#heterosexualprideday dates announced! January 1st to December 31st annually.”

In 1969, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau decriminalized homosexual acts for consenting adults.

Two years later, 300 people got together at Hanlan’s Point for the city’s first known gay pride picnic. City officials refused to declare Gay Pride Week and refused to grant permission for the picnickers to march down Yonge St.

Gay Pride Month was declared for the first time in the U.S. by then-President Bill Clinton in June of 2000 and continues to be declared each year of President Barack Obama’s administration.

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Metro in the U.K. has condemned Heterosexual Pride Day as a “passive aggressive ‘event’ for homophobes to try and snatch back the progression of LGBT acceptance.”

It’s not clear exactly who created Heterosexual Pride Day, but a Detroit-area tweeter who identifies him/herself as The Awkward Yeti concludes: “#heterosexualprideday must have been created by the kid that cries when he doesn’t get a present during someone else’s birthday party.”