On Trans Pride Events And Militancy
By: Autumn Sandeen Monday July 2, 2012 5:50 pm
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/07/02/on-trans-pride-events-and-militancy/Pride marches are born of two thoughts that can be perceived as both complimentary and contradictory: Political action and community celebration.
Pride Month is in June because the Stonewall Riots, and follow-up Stonewall Uprising Gay Liberation Movement, began on June 28th, 1969. The LGBTQ community was born in a political act — riots often being the language of the unheard.
As we made political gains, Pride Parades and Festivals became not only the political act of demanding more freedom from further oppression and inequality, but also celebration of the gains we as a broad community have already made, and just a celebration of the simple joy found in the freedom to be our full, three-dimensional selves.
So we have now the somewhat contradictory experience of LGBT and LGBTQ Pride events being both political events and wild parties.
