Alt-Right's Heterosexual Pride Day Forgets that Every Day is Heterosexual Pride Day
by Kylie Cheung | 2:49 pm, June 29th, 2017
As the hashtag #HeterosexualPrideDay springs to the top of Twitter’s “Trending Now” sidebar at the tail-end of Pride Month, for whatever reason, it seems worth pointing out the obvious: Every day is heterosexual pride day.
“Every day, straight people march down the street, holding hands, kissing, and loving one another without fear of violence or arrest,” Daniel Reynolds writes in The Advocate. “Gay people know that on their lips, a kiss is not just a kiss. It is an act of bravery. It might as well be a revolution.”
“Heterosexual Pride Day,” an invention of the same people insulted by lack of a “White History Month,” ignores what is the whole purpose of Pride Month, in the first place — celebrating the resilience of a community that’s overcome unthinkable persecution, violence, intolerance, and erasure for centuries.
A plurality of America’s politicians, including our very own vice president who has supported transferring funding for HIV relief to support gay conversion therapy, continue to oppose marriage equality and even support “religious freedom” laws that would make all kinds of discrimination toward the LGBTQ community legal. Also in America, hate crimes continue to target the LGBTQ community, while the Human Rights Campaign reports on appalling rates of homicides of transgender women.
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