Happy USAmerican pride month. For the next 30 days, you will see a lot of posts supporting queer rights, you might see a few brands change their profile picture to include a rainbow flag, though this is less common now than it used to be, you will see community events celebrating queerness, and you will see the odd march or two in the bigger cities.
Then pride month will be over, and you will see things return to business as usual, by which I mean that the ritualistic murder and slowburning genocide against us will continue unhindered, if it ever could be said to have stopped at all.
Queer politics, and especially transfeminist politics, do not need a pride month where we make our existence visible, we need a May day to make our demands heard and our power felt.
The first (not really) pride was a riot against police brutality. Now pride parades are held in coordination with the same local police Sylvia Rivera (maybe? it's unclear) threw a brick at.
Modern pride month is queer politics with the radicalism ripped out. It is the subsumption of the USAmerican queer rights movement into Liberalism. It is a kind of activism which corporate brands feel (or felt at least) comfortable associating themselves with. It is a version of queer politics which consists entirely rainbow flags, state-sanctioned marches, and voting every November.
Pride month is where queer liberation goes to die.
