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Marriage Equality Was Never Enough
Political Junkie, August 23, 2023
“Some people have used the term “backlash” to describe the ongoing legislative attack on the queer community by conservative legislators. That term is inadequate and is perhaps even misleading. A backlash implies a questioning of preexisting rights and an attempt to dismantle those rights in favor of a prior model—and on the surface, that is the case. Yet, this coordinated attack on LGBTQ people has surpassed and transformed prior forms of sexual revanchism. It is now its own beast.”
Celebration Isn’t Revolution
Political Junkie, June 28, 2023
“These lesser-known stories about the history of Pride should remind us that Pride, as it currently exists, is a sanitized, permitted corporate parade. It has nothing to do with Stonewall— as important as that event was—or the radical politics associated with the uprising. Reduced to a complex public relations dance, Pride as we know it does not accurately commemorate the events of that summer. If anything, it undermines the radical demands of Stonewall’s most courageous resisters, reducing them to hashtags and merch.”
Hannah Leffingwell 