Three Parades
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I started to write something highfalutin about the progression of Pride, Protest, and the Military parade that happened in DC last week. I had nearly 3000 words written, but it felt disjointed, overstuffed, and unfocused. Unfixable.
I do not know how to reconcile that a Pride parade happened in Washington D.C. at the same time as Federal programs are eradicating sexual orientation and gender identity data from their datasets. I am not sure what I should take away from a Starbucks float rolling down 14th street while a few blocks away someone is cooking up a plan to strip resources for queer people out of the 988 hotline.