Pride Isn’t Just a Party—It’s About Resistance and Belonging.

I am absolutely thrilled to have gotten the opportunity to write a Pride feature story for Apartment Therapy. Also look at this beautiful art by Ben Haist. You can read the full story here

 

 

 

 

“At its root, Pride is about both resistance and belonging—two words I am thinking a lot about this year in particular. It’s especially important to recognize the ways in which Pride began as a riot against police brutality where LGBTQ people—specifically LGBTQ people of color who were mostly homeless youth—stood up against the police at NYC’s Stonewall Inn, fighting back and systematically changing the shape of the way LGBTQ people are seen in this country…”