Thanks for sharing!

From the article:

Many of the public who line the route (virtual or actual) of these Pride celebrations would be mystified — even horrified — to know that, for droves of feminists, same-sex attracted men and women, and discerning people of all variety, June is a month where we mourn what the LGBTQ+ movement has wrought. For this reason, it seems more important than ever to review past victories and acknowledge the decades of committed work; the hard-won, slogging gains which once warranted authentic, blissed-out street parties — the sort of uninhibited celebrations at which no corporate entity, foundation representative, or wily politician would have been caught dead.

...And so, once again, the month of June stretches out before us — sometimes as far as September (it takes a surprising amount of rain to clear those crosswalks.) I wish that I still had an old, tattered rainbow flag buried away somewhere so that I could drag it out, shake it off, and fly it at half-mast in commemoration of all the past parties and celebrations, the heartbreak and successes, the work done on behalf of women, men, and children — naively believing all the while that what had been accomplished couldn’t be taken away. Never, in our darkest dreams, did we imagine that such theft and betrayal would be accomplished in the name of the very movement we created, and in which we felt such pride.

This is actually pretty awesome, maybe worth a post in its own right.