Prideful

Pride Month is not simply about initialisms, pronouns, flags, parades, or statements. It’s about honoring and recognizing our sheer existence, our internal worlds being recognized and celebrated by our external ones, and tipping the scale ever so slightly towards justice for those whose realities remain unbearable.

The longer I am gay the more personally inconsequential it feels, and yet the more politically salient it becomes. Sometimes I wonder if I need not point it out so frequently in casual conversation, or share my coming out story again, or remind people about the full spectrum of queer experience. But then I hear about more reckless people and officials doing and saying reckless things, and remember that my personal contentment is insuffienct evidence of social progress.

Pride keeps us moving the boulder up the mountain. Queer people have always been here and we will always be. Grab a drink and join the party.