(Image from Aloyisius, wikipedia) I'm still very suspicious of the idea of "Pride Month." Intuitively it makes very little sense to me. Pride is a protest, an event when I march through my city (over the years it's been Birmingham, Boston, Manchester, Bolton, Cardiff) and stand up for the rights of LGBT+ people, and for liberation from all forms of oppression. You can't have rights for LGBT+ asylum seekers unless there's immigration justice. LGBT+ people are more likely to suffer homelessness and poverty, and so LGBT+ liberation requires economic justice. A protest is not a season. Liberation doesn't have a season. It either happens on one particular day or it's for every day. "Pride Month" is a commercial capitalist season. It is the way of marking time that suits institutions and corporations. Like secular Christmas, or barbeque season, or pumpkin latte season, it's there to put up a new display and sell a new product. It's there...