From the Stonewall riots, to anti-gay financial lobbying, to Reagan’s failure to protect gay communities during the AIDS crisis, queer people have been under threat for years. And the journey to where we are now wasn’t easy. It is easy to forget, in the wake of corporate support and rainbow flags everywhere, that gay marriage was only nationally legalized in the United States in 2015, six short years ago.
Happy Pride Month! June is intended to be a beautiful celebration of queer life and liberation, of all the labor it took to make the progress we now take for granted.
