It's nice that there's fun, festive Pride activities in safe areas, but maybe there should also be more provocative Pride marches in areas that hate us.
@MegaMichelle Like the pride marches we have in East Texas?
I suppose so, yes.
I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We have Pride events places like Ypsilanti an Ann Arbor, college towns stuffed to the gills with queer people.
People tend to travel from the dangerous places to the fun pride events. I think some of us should go the other direction too.
We could come support you in Texas, but there's plenty of danger zones in Michigan to do. The people in Austin should come support you.
@MegaMichelle Austin is quite the drive so I don't blame them if they don't come, lol. Tyler & Longview have pride events & we're in deep red territory. We have counter protestors every year. But turnout is has been great--surprise, surprise--since there are queer folk everywhere and East Texas is difficult to move away from since the cost of living here is so low.