'Is the point of Pride for people like me to get cozy enough to forget its radical origins?' One Vogue writer questions her feelings towards Pride this year
of a student athlete’s gender; while on Saturday, 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested in a U-Haul packed with riot gear on their way to a Pride event in Idaho.
Let's be clear on one point. Despite the advances made with gay marriage and adoption over the past decade, trans people—and particularly trans people of color—havethe larger LGBTQ+ community about all of this for years, prophesying that rampant transphobia would inevitably spill over into general homophobia if allowed to remain unchecked.
All that said, there’s still the behemoth of Pride to reckon with. June is supposed to be a month devoted to the survival and joy of the LGBTQ+ community, but ever since I started attending Pride celebrations as a newly-out “baby gay” in my early twenties, my focus has always been on the joy of it all. I’ve sweated and sang and cried from sheer joy at
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