Turning Pride on its head: what happens when people reclaim Pride for liberatory politics?
In city after city, Pride organizers have folded corporate advertising, sponsorship and participation into Pride (corporate pinkwashing), with Pittsburgh's organizers infamously selling Pride naming rights to a fracking conglomerate. Pride organizers are also bringing police in as participants and marchers (paramilitary pinkwashing).
Socialist organizer and boricua trans ex-Portlander, Alyssa Pariah, sits with us to talk about how Pride came to be; what it is now, and what it can be. This spring and summer, protestors have interrupted Pride celebrations across the country - from Phoenix (Trans Queer Pueblo, advocating for LGBTA immigrants) to Vancouver, BC (Black Lives Matter) - telling new stories about pride, and expressing solidarity. Alyssa speaks from her experience at this year's Pride in Minneapolis.