Happy Pride Month.
I'm thinking hard on this one with my few available brain cycles about Pride, what it means, who it includes, who it excludes and indeed how commercialised it can be (thus removing attention from the many intersectional issues that shiny happy pretty queers can cover up).
I wanted to reply joyfully to this, but also mindfully of the people I know who aren't supported/represented by this month and call myself if no one else to think, say, do more for those still marginalised because of queerness.
Homelessness - high in LGBTQIA populations.
Mental health issues - discrim and marginalisation fucks people up.
Conversion therapy - just ban it already and no fucking religious/therapeutic exemptions.
Transphobia - being used to split LGBTQIA from one another, don't fall for it, don't amplify the fuckers, but do visibly support trans people.
Global issues - many countries being LGBTQ is very unsafe ranging from social badness through to state sponsored violence and death penalty (which is what Pride was protesting in the first place!).
I've missed some stuff I know. Screwit, posting this anyway.
Oh, and the first Pride March, was organised by a bisexual woman, so people who claim bisexuals are latecomers can fuck the fuck off.
Happy Pride Month everyone!