#PRIDE - "Gay is Good"
Hello there, guys, gals, and fellow non-binary pals! Pride is among us! A whole 30 days where we get to recognize the LGBTQ+ community and our incredibly hard-fought journey to achieving equal rights - which is somehow still on-going, 70 years after the gay rights movement began. This year, I want to take part in it for the first time, and let you all in on some of our history and what Pride means to me. First and foremost, Pride is not a celebration - it was not borne out of a desire for a big gay party. Pride is a protest. In the 1950s, the United States government was actively seeking out homosexuals in an attempt to purge them all from the workforce. And when I say actively, I mean that cops were hiding behind secret doors in men's restrooms, waiting for gay men to come in to engage in sexual activity together. Some were even entrapping gay men by soliciting them for sex. This was a time when communism was a big threat in the country, and the rationale was that homosexuals