Who Needs Pride?

We all do. And we need it now, more than we have in decades.

The LGBTQ community is going through some dark times.

It’s not just that the MAGA crowd is homophobic. It’s the glee with which they revel in their homophobia. With the awesome power of the federal government at their disposal, they’re emboldened to be as cruel and mean-spirited as possible, up to and including violence.

LGBTQ folks are hardly the only targets of the Trump/MAGA vitriol. But there seems to be a special place in their rotting hearts for anti-LGBTQ hatred and, within the LGBTQ community, a truly dark streak of viciousness aimed at trans folks. Hundreds of pieces of anti-trans legislation have passed or are pending in legislatures around the country.

Federal courthouses have become a nexus between the government’s anti-trans hatred and anti-immigrant zeal. Around the country, ICE agents have been detaining trans asylum seekers fleeing…