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When José Esteban Muñoz is Your Hero, Today’s Pride Marches Have No Bite

June 10, 2025

By Marcos Gonsalez | Chanting, cackling, shouting, and frolicking up Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue, flaunting our booty shorts and glittered skin, we marched. It was June 2019, and thousands of us queers were having a grand old gay time at the first Queer Liberation March. The march was held the same day as the yearly Pride…
Just So We’re Queer, We’re Still Celebrating Pride Without You, Google Calendar!

June 5, 2025

By Christian Coleman | Gasp! Google Calendar looks much less iridescent and fabulous this June. It’s giving a serious case of the blahs, and the face card is nothing but a 404 error. Where’s that righteous realness for human rights? Oh, that’s right. Google Calendar banished Pride Month into the cyber memory hole. Well, that’s…
4 (and a Half) Ways into Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “Indigenous Peoples’ History”

November 21, 2024

By Christian Coleman | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s OG text has had more than one life. Published in 2014, “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” is the third installment of Beacon’s ReVisioning History series, created by Beacon Press director Gayatri Patnaik. Now, a decade later, there is more than one way to read and radically…