Why we need to be proud to be queer, now more than ever

I was just about to head to Penn’s Landing when I heard the news. The confirmed death toll from the terrorist hate crime attack at Pulse in Orlando was 20 at that point. About an hour later, standing in the bright sun with a cooling breeze coming off the Delaware River at the Pride festival, amid streaming rainbows and thousands of happy festival-goers, I stopped to check my phone: now 50 dead, 53 injured. The deadliest mass shooting in American history, an anti-LGBT hate crime so unbelievably horrific that all others pale in comparison, and there I was, celebrating Pride in my newly-adopted city, Philadelphia, celebrating my queer identity in the bosom of the LGBT community in the city I now call home.

The irony was not lost on me.

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