Pride

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Pride month!

HAPPY PRIDE!

A tall drag queen with mascara running in a jagged line down her cheek sang in a rich baritone. I knew the song well, the same one I sang with a maverick group of angels, as we surrounded a pyre of burning draft files in 1969, gripping our fear, as the police sirens approached. We shall overcome. We shall overcome someday.

The much anticipated official reopening of the completely reimagined, revamped, and stunningly renovated Henrietta Hudson will take place this Saturday, May 15 at 6pm. 

“I would lay on the bare floor of the cell, and there was no light in there. So the only light you’re seeing was a little bit of light from under your door. I would get on the floor and start singing that song. It gave me a little bit of hope again. It made me realize I could dream.”

You arrive in a new city, filled with new faces, tastes, sounds, and eventually, if you play your cards right, you’ll end up in a room of queers, sweaty and synchronized, the same baseline surging through your spines.

Equal Ground is Sri Lanka’s oldest non profit LGBTQ+ advocacy group, raising awareness of rights and visibility in a country that officially offers no protections for queer and gender non-conforming people.

“We want to make sure that this next stage of Madeline’s life is as free from fear and full of love as our whole lives have been because of her.”

As the world opens up, it’s time to turn all of your t-shirts into crop tops. 

Modern lovers pining for the one who got away, take heart: Even Hollywood’s greatest lesbian romantic was dealt an unrequited hand.

The middle school kids knew what it was like to avoid looking corny, but they also knew a lot about bravery.

Cue “You Should See Me In A Crown” by Billie Eilish.

Love is love, and us lesbians definitely have some of the biggest hearts out there.

“I was more afraid when I went out to clubs, dressed in drag, than I was when I was befriending a drug dealer or up in some apartment buying for the NYPD, with no gun or shield. I would’ve rather been found dead, in some dumpster, because a dealer found out I was a cop than been busted in drag.”

“The Fight Continues.”

According to a 2019 Social Perception Survey on LGBT+ Rights in Nigeria by TIERS, 60% of Nigerians will not accept a family member who is LGBT.

Being Asian, queer, and a woman meant there was a myriad of ways I could vanish, and I saw it each time I watched a movie. 

“F*ck my rainbow wristband. F*ck my tomboy underwear. I was a fraud. And surely these people could tell.”

100 lesbian, bi, queer, and just plain human moments that had extra special meaning for our entire community.

May we follow your lead in telling the world to “Love a Black woman from infinity to infinity.” May we always have something we keep for ourselves.

It’s up to a younger generation to figure out what the current iteration of a dyke bar should look like.

It’s just a quiet little thing, like a kitten wrapped up in a blanket. I expected fireworks, either the violent kind or the celebratory kind, but there is nothing but the quiet of the evening, heavy around our ears.

“One of the many times I realized I was a lesbian was when I was in the throes of a high school threesome.”

This Sunday, as we honor National Coming Out Day, LA Pride is asking you to do more than just celebrate being out. They also want you to run.

There’s explosive diversity in each of us.

“I wish I had a strong, beautiful representation of what it meant to be a trans woman. I wish that the popular girl — the girl who gets the guy, the girl who gets the crown — was trans.”

We can’t be what we can’t imagine. We need to see ourselves living joyfully, lovingly, fully in the world.

“I’m casting people who are different from me to make changes that affect all of us.”   

“I want people to feel like they have showered after they listen to my music, for it to be a cathartic and cleansing sort of experience.”

Karyn Blanco opens up about her music, “The Circle,” and how she wants people to really see her. 

Being closeted is like living in an alternate world within this world.

Bonus: no one dies in a swimming pool.

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