Is it ridiculous to identify, quite, as one's gender/sex/persuasion? And likewise therefore absurd/pretentious/wrong to be proud (anent its being, ridiculously, "Gay Pride Month") of what one could scarcely help but be anyway?

Well, yes, I think so. But then too, of what but our motives and our deeds ought we at all ever to permit ourselves to feel proud? N'est-ce pas?