Pride month [View all]

BTW I'm not "new" to DU. Refurbished and will remain only an occasional visitor.
I get to attend SF pride this year. My adoptive son is flying up for a bay area staycation. I'm so stoked. Circumstancially (workplaces, surgery) it's been nearly a decade since I am able to attend a Pride. My last one prior to health issues, however had a profound small family triumph over bigotry I want to share.
My brother lives in a small Midwestern city I was visiting for the second summer in a row, circumstancially. The first summer, my brother accompanied me to his city’s Pride celebration. He enjoyed the experience immensely..

Over that year between, he and my previously staunchly homophobic sister in law must have had discussions about that.

So it surprised me she decided to tag along. She was morose enroute, but realized once we arrived, people. Just people. Hundreds of them, many in flamboyant regalia, but none of the debauchery she had the impression Pride was all about from the sensationalized media.

But then the clincher-- there it was. The outreach booth from HER CHURCH! She gravitated and stayed there chatting up for about a half hour.

Then we had hot dogs. She enjoyed the musical performance. She was beaming and joyful on the way home.

And for the first time ever, she treated her gay brother in law like a human being. I wish this could reach a wider demographic than "preaching to the choir" on this thread. It's important to go participate in the local hoopla.
I'm so disgusted with all the LGBT bashing came with MAGA bullshit no matter how they embellish up "LGBT for Trump" nonsense.