@mercedesallen@mastodon.social
2026-06-26 23:52 UTC
"To the politicians slashing Pride: We do not need your approval, your recognition, or your permission to exist. We certainly do not want your friendship. The bridges are already ash in the wind. Long after this latest moral panic has exhausted itself, future generations, including your own children, will reject you and be left to rebuild the communities, freedoms, & institutions you worked so hard to dismantle…"
This Pride, I'm over meeting homophobes 'in the middle.'
https://www.advocate.com/opinion/pride-leaving-homophobes
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-06-27 18:01
@mercedesallen@mastodon.social Absolutely! I use trans rights as a litmus test for politicians. Anybody who wants to throw trans people under the bus is either a ghoul or a coward who failed to learn the most basic lesson of the Holocaust: never sacrifice anyone, never give an inch of ground to appease Nazis. It was both evil and stupid back then. It is no different now.