“Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal – white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary, and capitalism itself. If we genuinely want to make ruins of this totality, we need to make a break. We don’t need inclusion into marriage, the military, and the state. We need to end them. No more gay politicians, CEOs, and cops. We need to swiftly and immediately articulate a wide gulf between the politics of assimilation and the struggle for liberation. We need to rediscover our riotous inheritance as queer anarchists. We need to destroy constructions of normalcy, and create instead a position based in our alienation from this normalcy, and one capable of dismantling it.”
— Toward The Queerest Insurrection, via Son of Baldwin

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Gay Prideâ„¢ is subordination to the State and Empire.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is homage to capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is co-optation of queer radicalism by liberals, Democrats, academics, hipsters, and NGOs.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is the eradication of trans bodies and narratives, and queer militancies.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is gala events for the elite.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is walking past homeless queer youth.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is assimilation into straight society.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is corporate.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is destruction of queer histories of mutual-aid, resistance, shame, promiscuity, creativity, humor, love, community, brutality, poverty, and disease.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is “we’re just like you”.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is safe, privileged, accommodationist, vanilla, temporary, and very boring.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is to ignore trans women of color being beat by police and murdered by street bigots.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is to achieve equality and sameness, to settle and be conditional, to compromise. Nothing more. Always less.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is forgetting about those affected by HIV/AIDS.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is “straight-acting”, “masc only”, “promise I’m not that gay tho”, “sry no effeminate guys”, “not into Asians”, “prefer white guys”, “no fatties or trannies”.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is gender binary.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is on the sidewalk, obeying the police when they say the party is over.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is neglecting all of the queer and trans prisoners held captive by the State.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is marriage and military.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is poor people of color being pushed out of their neighborhoods by a white gay gentry.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is refusing to avenge religious fundamentalists who cause young queers to commit suicide.
Gay Pride™ is “things aren’t that bad in Russia.”
Gay Prideâ„¢ is being able to participate in the military-industrial complex, kill and rape people in other countries in the name of “freedom”, yet be fired from a minimum wage job in the US because of your sexuality and/or gender identity.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is giving a shit about corporate media and entertainment.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is pretending electoral politics will bring about social change.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is a rearranging of the existing social order only to accommodate a few, as opposed to collective liberation and dismantling of oppressive systems.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is nationalism.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is to water down and tranquilize – to make “normal”.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is men and women who arm themselves to kill people who are deemed criminals, deviants, and terrorists by the State.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is business casual or muscle tees.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is the invisibilization of people of color.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is to dismiss queer Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli apartheid state.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is gay men being misogynist pigs and committing verbal, physical, and sexual violence against women and it being “okay” since they’re gay.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is obscuring histories of Western colonialism and silencing Indigenous voices.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is “speak English or go back to your country”.
Gay Prideâ„¢ is a mythology and an opiate.”
WILLIAMLUKAS: “GAY PRIDEâ„¢ IS /// JUN 2014”