
A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.
Allo-Aro
also the average person has 10x better understandning of us than they did in 2019, because local and national news has been busy describing just how boring, safe, and unnecessarily gatekept even then the process actually is
also there are a lot of liberals who were mostly oblivious to trans issues in 2016 but do hold a firm "if conservatives hate you, you must be alright" stance, I've noticed them waking up a bit
Apparently this works internationally too! I've been told Ukraine has gotten much more queer-friendly ever since Russia leaned hard into homophobia
Supposedly our local pride fest was the best-attended in a decade according to people who were regulars. I gotta take their word for it, but am certainly willing to believe it given the political landscape of a decade ago.
The obvious conclusion is that this is just one of many ways in which our political process is being held hostage
Boston had a massive crowd, but it's also our first one in years due to a combination of COVID and the previous organizing committee dissolving rather than entertain requests to be less racist, so it was going to be a big deal no matter what.