# Ep. 167 Not All Gays, Why Pride Has Been Hijacked. Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uneducated-pt-6835077/ep-167-not-all-gays-why-pride-has-been-hijacked Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uneducated-pt-6835077/ep-167-not-all-gays-why-pride-has-been-hijacked.md Podcast: [The Uneducated PT](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uneducated-pt-6835077) Published: 2026-06-25T20:46:17+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-167-not-all-gays-why-pride-has-been-hijacked--72694150 Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72694150/video1008503728.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-uneducated-pt-6835077/episodes/ep-167-not-all-gays-why-pride-has-been-hijacked Duration seconds: 1937 ## Resource This week on The Uneducated PT Podcast, I sit down with Sean Ako — one of Ireland’s most outspoken and controversial cultural commentators.As a gay man who has increasingly pushed back against modern progressive politics, Sean challenges many of the assumptions surrounding Pride, LGBTQ activism, identity politics, gender ideology, and the growing culture around censorship and free speech.We discuss whether Pride has been politically hijacked, why Sean believes minority groups are often used to push ideological agendas, the debate around gender recognition laws in Ireland, pronouns in schools, media distrust, and whether modern society is becoming less tolerant of dissenting opinions.At a time where certain questions feel harder to ask publicly, this conversation explores one central issue:Are we still living in a culture that values free thought… or one that increasingly punishes disagreement?Agree or disagree — this is a conversation worth hearing. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-uneducated-pt-6835077/episodes/ep-167-not-all-gays-why-pride-has-been-hijacked/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uneducated-pt-6835077/ep-167-not-all-gays-why-pride-has-been-hijacked.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.