June is LGBTIQ Pride Month, and festivities are already under way across the United States – in many cases, for the first time in two years, since Pride parades and celebrations were among the gatherings that had to be cancelled during COVID.
Pride events are often picketed by hateful street preachers, but the community pushback tends to make them look small, petty and pathetic. For me, personally – street preachers and misgivings about rainbow capitalism aside – Pride events typically lift my spirits and leave me full of positive feelings.
They are welcoming and inclusive community affairs, and, as someone whose immediate blood family will most likely never join me at Pride, I always find it heartwarming to see families enjoying the experience together.
