WaPo op-ed promoting 'kink' at Pride parades raises eyebrows: 'Should be in serious trouble for this'

The Washington Post raised eyebrows on Wednesday following the publication of an op-ed arguing that "kink" should remain a staple at LGBTQ Pride parades.

Rowello described a Pride parade her family once attended in Philadelphia in which her children asked her why "a bare-chested man whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong...paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog." Instead of avoiding the topic or shielding her children from the sight, Rowello wrote she used the opportunity to explain that the participants were "celebrating" who they were. Rowello used the anecdote to argue that Pride participants should always feel free to express themselves and that there's no need for children in the audience to be shielded from such sexualized displays.