'This year, it’s even more important to celebrate everything we are and have accomplished,' writes Jobert E. Abueva. 'We can call 2023 Pride the year of defiant celebration.'
for partnering with a transgender influencer — it’s enough for the community to seek a case of ostrich syndrome, blissfully ignoring the seeming insanity of it all.Now is not the time to be complacent. Nor to be silent.
This year, it’s even more important to celebrate everything we are and have accomplished, in defiance of all the attacks against our community.record number of anti-LGBTQ legislation billsintroduced in state legislatures , already more than double the total number from all of 2022. And it’s only June. More than two-thirds of the health-care-related bills introduced in 2023 are aimed at blocking trans youth from getting gender-affirming care.
Even drag queens are being, er, dragged into the fray, with Tennessee leading the way with bills that would ban or censor their performances. Although the bill was temporarily blocked by a, there is no sashaying away from the reality that organized forces are at play to marginalize those who are different and vulnerable.
The tentacles of these bills are reaching into more and more aspects of how we live and work, bursting up like weeds through concrete cracks, and in much need of a good spraying of Roundup.,” which allows parents to weigh in on the curriculum, books, and reading materials in school libraries. Yes, this results in book banning.
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