Pride Is Under Threat. What Does That Mean for You This Year?
A Prism & Pen writers prompt
Pride Month starts this Saturday!
How did it sneak up so fast? And how will it go? I’m worried, frankly. More worried than I’ve ever been about an upcoming Pride season.
The FBI and the State Department have warned queer communities at home and abroad about serious threats of anti-queer violence this June, including threats of mass violence directed against Pride marches/festivals. Queer organizations that offer counseling to suicidal queer youth say law enforcement have warned them to avoid Pride marches for their own safety.
States all over the U.S. are passing laws to restrict freedom of expression for queer people — especially trans people. School teachers and librarians are losing careers over performing in drag or sponsoring drag shows.
Fortune 500 corporations are reining in Pride support rather dramatically this year. Target, for example, is pulling Pride merchandise from many of its stores.
Queer families are fleeing Red states en masse. And that’s just the U.S. Trans people in the U.K. are often scared just to walk down the street.
Conservative elements of society are working as hard as they can to erase us or…
