"Things are changing quickly and we have to take a stand and be noticed," Reyes' husband, Paul Brady, added. "We have to be as visible as possible," said Reyes, wearing a silver body suit and gray and purple headpiece decorated with rhinestones. The couple joined the "resistance contingent," which led the parade and included representatives from several activist organizations. In San Francisco, revelers wearing rainbow tutus and boas held signs that read "No Ban, No Wall, Welcome Sisters and Brothers" while they danced to electronic music at a rally outside City Hall.įrank Reyes said he and his husband decided to march for the first time in many years because they felt a need to stand up for their rights. But it’s yet another place that straight white people now feel 100 percent welcome, even though they feel perfectly at home in any public space.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags lined streets for gay pride parades Sunday in coast-to-coast events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some see as new threats to gay rights in the Trump era. Who is Pride really for these days? Queers who are proud to be queers, of course.
(Albeit with better decorating sense and the sass to pull off chaps that leave little to the imagination.) This inclusiveness is also where Pride fails, for lots of us. It gets more inclusive and welcoming every year, and as the queers become less threatening, more straight people come, and more minds are opened to the possibility that we gays might just be regular people, after all. New York Times: Is Pride Still for Queer People Like Me? - "That’s where Pride succeeds. But on the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, it seems fitting to ask: Are we truly returning to our radical roots?" Pride parades became marches, which drew on a rich history of LGBTQ protest. More acutely, it stirred them in factions of the gay and lesbian communities that had perhaps become comfortable under the Obama administration. NBC Out: Decades After Riots, Activists Spar Over Stonewall’s Legacy - "The election of Donald Trump stirred slumbering spirits of resistance in the LGBTQ community. But there is no achievement in the fight for LGBTQ equality in America more notable than the fact that a person can now be, in a sense, quietly queer." MTV News: The Right To Be Remarkably Unremarkable - "We've fought for, and won, the right to marry, the right to serve our country, the right to be exceptional for something other than our sexual orientation or gender identity. Author of, "Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations." ( Coaston, political writer for MTV News. ( Ward, professor of gender and sexuality studies at University of California Riverside. John Paul Brammer, associate producer at NBC Out. This hour On Point: Who owns gay pride? - Tom Ashbrook Guests
Some in the LGBTQ community now wonder what's happening to their singularity. Popular now for straight bachelorette parties. With corporate sponsors and tons of straight people coming out to say hooray. Now, we've got gay pride parades all over the country.
(Jeff Chiu/AP)įor the longest time, gay and lesbian, LGBTQ Americans, lived their full identities at the margins, in the shadows. Who owns gay identity? A group of marchers walk at the Pride parade in San Francisco, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Who owns gay pride? The parade routes are crowded now. Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 4 years old.