Pride Month is doing more heavy lifting this year than usual, what with Republicans’ doubling down on the repeal of Roe v. Wade to attack the existence of LGBTQ+ people all across the country. From banning books to outlawing healthcare to going apeshit about drag shows, they’re in the last hurrah stage of trying to turn back time.
And it’s costing
lives.
So it seems like
this time round, in addition to the celebration aspect of Pride Month, we need
to be shouting and marching and legislating (yay, Minnesota!) to retain
humanity, reminding ourselves that, unless everyone is free, no one is free.
Today our earworm is the big finish from Kinky Boots, “Raise You Up/Just Be”. Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein created this musical based on the 2005 film about a failing Northampton shoe factory saved by a drag queen’s designs for, well, kinky boots. This finale piece is exactly what we need right now, so crank up the volume.
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