Robert M. Nelson here. A couple of years back, I wrote a guest column in this fine newspaper about what can feel like insincere corporate support for Pride — how it can be a performative act to maximize profit, that at its worst erodes the authentic queer experience, and at its best gives us a surface level of seen- ness, a mainstream support that often feels as thin as a dollar bill.

Since I last wrote here, things have only gotten more worrisome for queer folks in America and are downright terrifying for our transgender siblings.

Rights and respect for LGBTQ+ people had been moving forward for the last few decades, but now those rights are being peeled away. And the moment the political headwinds changed, support for LGBTQ+ Americans started to feel very flimsy.

Pride has always

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