Women Against Street Harassment (#WASH) and Piper J. Daniels — The Monarch Review

Post-Pulse Rallying Cry

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 4:23 — 2 Comments

Although it was a lovely gesture, we didn’t need President Obama to officially declare June LGBTQ Pride Month this year. From the first Pride Parade in June of 1970 to the legislative victories granting marriage equality in 2013, this month has always been a time for queers to celebrate our community’s beautiful, hard-won freedoms. And love. The way that only we can love. But there’s a catch. Each victory carries us further from the fucked up, riotous place in which our community was born. It was not so long ago that queer America experienced our first mass killing, the AIDS […]