Pride is for MY Queer Family! (Drag Queens Included)

Summary

The website content discusses the importance of Pride Month for LGBTQ+ families, the backlash faced from conservatives, and the call to action for queer individuals to share their family stories through the Prism & Pen writing prompt.

Abstract

The article emphasizes the significance of June as Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community, highlighting the value of family in its various forms within queer culture. It criticizes the conservative outcry against LGBTQ+ parents bringing children to drag events, contrasting this with the acceptance of more revealing beauty pageants. The piece encourages LGBTQ+ individuals to write about their own queer families, offering editorial support to those who wish to contribute their stories, essays, poems, or other creative works to Prism & Pen. The aim is to celebrate the diversity and unity of LGBTQ+ families and to provide a platform for sharing these narratives, fostering a sense of community and pride.

Opinions

The author expresses dismay over conservative and Christian conservative reactions to LGBTQ+ families participating in child-friendly drag events, viewing these reactions as hypocritical.
There is a strong opinion that Pride Month should be a time for LGBTQ+ individuals to celebrate their families, regardless of the negative responses from some parts of society.
The author believes that queer families are as traditional and valid as any other family structure, deserving of recognition and respect.
The piece advocates for the power of storytelling as a means of affirming the existence and value of LGBTQ+ families, suggesting that sharing these stories can be an act of protest and celebration.
It is suggested that the act of writing and sharing queer family stories can strengthen the bonds within the LGBTQ+ community and promote understanding and acceptance from the broader society.

June is Pride Month. And Pride REALLY is for families.

I got gut-wrenched yesterday watching Republicans and Christian conservatives lose their shit over LGBTQ parents bringing kids to child-friendly drag shows for Pride. In Texas, politicians are even calling for abuse investigations and possibly removing children from homes.

I don’t know why conservatives lose their shit over drag art, not when the same people often love and encourage beauty pageants for women and girls — pageants that reduce women and girls to sex objects and dress them in far more revealing costumes that most drag artists ever sport.

But it’s June! And June is for Pride, and for queer folks everywhere, Pride means family. So let’s put the gut-wrenching aside and write OUR OWN stories.

Pride is for MY Queer Family!

Queer people join families, create families, raise families, celebrate families. Our families are traditional, radical, colorful, ordinary, exceptional, boring, and exciting. Whatever our families look like, Pride is a family affair.

Once, Pride for me in NYC meant delicious deli, cheap wine, and live opera on a blanket in Central Park. My family were my husband Lenny, our lesbian neighbors Harriet and Mary, a sweet young friend of mine named Brad, a swishy/crazy biker-bearded bartender named Howie, a gender-bending grandma/grandpa named Carla or David depending on their mood, and Hilda, an elderly Holocaust survivor who was Carla’s constant companion.

Later in life, my queer family meant my partner and the at-risk child we raised together.

Today, even though I’m single, I STILL have queer family, and they know who they are.

What does YOUR queer family look like? Transgender, bisexual, gay, or otherwise, we queer folks bond and join with one another as much as anyone does, because we’re human and family is what humans do.

Pride is for MY Queer Family! (Drag Queens Included)

A Prism & Pen writing prompt

June is Pride Month. And Pride REALLY is for families.

Pride is for MY Queer Family!

Pride is for MY Queer Family!

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