Thread by @thrasherxy

Reason is awful, but relieved for cancellation of NYC pride. Enuf already! Enuf washboard abs, cis white supremacy, corporatism, pinkwashing, cop worship & banking porn. Enuf having to create counter liberation to Pride™️. 50 yrs was enuf—time for new paradigms! (RIP my mentions)

The world is going to need *radical* new ways of being, particularly LGBTQ ppl, who are being hit disproportionately hard in the medical, financial and economic fallout of this crisis.

We don’t need a longing to get back to the calcified, business-as-usual, hagiography of Pride™️ anymore than we need to “Make America Great Again” or to “Restore the Soul of America.”

We are going to need radically queer, trans and bi ways of being!

After 50 yrs,Pride™️ had evolved into something impossible to untangle from many of the most insidious aspect of consumption and capitalism.

We need something new to address the labor, environmental, anti-racist & economic challenges of LGBTQ folks.

Here’s to something new!

(Now, if they could only cancel Christmas 2020 next, to give the US in general & our Christians in particular a chance to redirect energy away from consumerism and towards creating a more just & equitable world, the kind —dare I say—Jesus may have wanted us to make in this time.)

Here's to NEW ways of

being in queer community

undoing what plagues us

fighting for queer, trans & bi liberation

undoing straight, cis & white supremacy

not relying on permission from govt, business & media for visibility

rejecting nationalism

loving

knowing

being

Also, it was annoying to be talked down to by a white historian like @jimdowns1, who assumed I didn't know about queer youth at NYC pride, having even been one myself decades ago! Then, it was strange when the historian deleted the tweet to erase the record of this exchange🤔