June may be Pride Month, but it isn’t official anymore. Not since Donald Trump became the president. He has never issued an official proclamation declaring June Pride month.
But this year is different. Not different in the way that the Trump Administration has treated LGBTQ people. I’m sorry if this is a shock to anyone reading this, but Trump does not care about you. At all.
What’s different, of course, is that across the country Americans are taking to the streets to protest racism and police brutality. Also different is a highly contagious virus spreading across the country. The novel coronavirus is, of course, the reason cited for canceling Pride celebrations across the country. A wise decision, even after we’ve seen the spread slowing in previous hot spots like New York and Michigan.
And yet there are crowds of hundreds and...
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