I’m dismayed but not really surprised that there are a lot of self-righteous and homophobic comments on pride-related posts on this other social network that’s very popular in my country. 😒
In honor of #pride, here's a collection devoted to LGBTQIA+ photographers and photography, from radical early projects (like the secret studio run by Norwegian photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg) to the "queer new wave" rising today.
"For many LGBTQ, non-binary and gender-fluid artists, photography remains a charged cultural and political tool, a way to document a past and present, while guaranteeing a future." — Ananda Pellerin, @CNN
This is not the America where we have fought for and bragged about #equality. This is a very #rightwing approach that's telling a significant portion of our country that they don’t have rights.
“In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.”
“They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments”
My company's #Pride2024 campaign is "Supporting allyship". I get the sentiment and I appreciate the effort to educate other people on being allies, but is that really the appropriate headline for a global company's Pride campaign?
My first take on it was: Way to make Pride month about straight folk 🙄
Am I missing something?
How dare these ignorant #terrorist sympathizers try to attach their intellectually and morally bankrupt movement to #PrideMonth. You can't scream vicious, #antisemitic slurs in the faces of innocent #Jewish students and teachers one day, and then throw your arms around the LGBTQ community in solidarity the next. Don't get it twisted. You don't represent anyone but yourselves.