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Celebrating Pride Month and Juneteenth!
This Pride, we celebrate all LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities, past, present and future. We send love to and honor folks who are unable or cannot come out safely, those who are unsure about their sexuality or gender, those who do not want to come out, those who do not have support systems and those who are out and proud!
This month, we also honor Juneteenth, a day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas (2 ½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation) to inform and ensure the last group of enslaved Black people were freed. As we celebrate these two events, it’s important to recognize the intersecting identities and oppressions that Black queer and trans people hold. Pride would not exist without Black queer and trans people like Marsha P. Johnson and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and we cannot celebrate Pride without uplifting Black and Black Queer History.
In the article “My Pride is Black, My Juneteenth is Queer,” Preston D. Mitchum quotes, “Pride and Juneteenth both remind us of how government control over the lives, health and autonomy of LGBTQ, Black and other marginalized populations is deeply rooted in the history of this nation.”
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