Pride Month musing at the end of Pride Month from Qmmunity Editor James
Reader, I am melancholy. Pride Month exists more in the rearview than through my front window, and as I coast down summer’s highway, I wonder: Where is the road taking me, and the entire community, and will we be happy with the end point?
These questions fully crystallized during a family trip to Michigan. Lots of young kids running around, playing with their phones, and demanding candy – a scene that my childless 30-year-old ass rarely deals with. But I liked getting to meet my younger cousins: their developing personalities blooming before my eyes in ways familiar and foreign to my own childhood.
What struck me was how certain societal norms have already ingrained themselves in these still-growing minds. When I took an 8-year-old cousin to the toy store, in between explaining the lore of several internet creepypastas, he also kept defining toys as either girl or boy toys. Even as I tried to combat the thoughts by insisting all toys are for everyone, especially the giant mechanical spider he pointed out, a pit formed in my stomach.
I wish I could end this column with a solution. Previous statements from the Qmmunity desk often have that “here’s a problem/here’s the solve” format, which imply a lot more knowledge on my part than actually utilized by me in practice. I want to make the world better for my little cousins. I don’t want them to have the same struggles I had – to feel unsupported, misunderstood, and afraid of the queerness inside. I want them to know the validity of all identities and lifestyles.
Maybe that’s what Pride month is supposed to inspire: Not self-congratulatory applause but reflection and reinvigoration in our praxis. Just cruising along the same ol’ road, never moving past the speed limit, is not what got LGBTQ people to their destination. Our victory is one of continual victories – progress repeated over and over, each time unpacked so that we never find ourselves in the same staid complacency that characterizes the patriarchy.
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