It’s Pride Day, but not I’m not feeling very proud as an American. Quite the opposite. I’m absolutely furious about what’s going on in this country. People are being kidnapped off the street and disappeared to foreign countries or sent to concentration camps in this country. Meanwhile, in the dead of night, Senate Republicans passed Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill," which would cut Medicaid and give Trump unchecked power.
As Aaron Hicklin pointed out in his New York Times essay last week, our fair-weather corporate allies have abandoned us due to Trump’s policy of intimidation and censorship. So the Pride March, which I’ve attended and/or marched in for over 40 years, may have to, of necessity, become more political, as it was originally.
Which is why, when I attend today’s march, I’ll be carrying these two homemade signs. It’s not much, but it’s all I could fit.
