Happy Pride!
It’s my favorite time of year! The beginning of summer, and PRIDE MONTH! It’s easy to forget the time before corporations started profiting off of this month, but I couldn’t have even imagined sending an email like this 5 years ago.
Queerness has always been present in our history, we just chose to ignore it. Achilles and Patroclus? Just guys being dudes. Sappho? Just switch the female pronouns to male ones!
To celebrate pride month, Spotify made a playlist of queer composers–old and new. I highly recommend listening–you’ll probably recognize the majority of the composers!
June wasn’t always parades and rainbows. Remember, the first pride was a riot. We had to fight to get here, and the battle isn’t over yet.
“I am not America’s nightmare, I am the American Dream”