Pride is a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and be proud of living openly and authentically. We won’t hide our pride, even in the face of mounting attacks against our community.
This Pride, we must make it clear and inspire action: This is an emergency, and this is a wake up call. Powerful people are bullying LGBTQ+ kids and threatening our constitutional right to safe, legal abortion plain and simple – and they’re pouring gasoline on a wildfire. We will not go backwards.
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pride month is a time to celebrate our
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lgbtq plus community to be loud and
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proud of living openly and authentically
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but this pride month i’m sounding the
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alarm
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this is an emergency this is a wake-up
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call
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state lawmakers have launched an all-out
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assault on our community particularly
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our trans and non-binary youth
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they’re bullying children and
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terrorizing families
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they’re spreading propaganda and lies
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attacking our community
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they’re trying to censor those they
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disagree with
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and they are just pouring gasoline on a
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wildfire
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these attacks are part of a coordinated
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campaign to take away our foundational
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rights our reproductive freedom and our
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right to bodily autonomy are under
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attack
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our right to vote is under attack
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all of our most basic rights are under
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attack
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we can’t just sit idly by
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when we get complacent about the
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progress some of us have achieved
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without looking to those we have left
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behind
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we actually allow our democracy to decay
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when we shake our heads and move on from
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someone else’s injustice we abandon our
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responsibility to ourselves to each
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other
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and to the ultimate direction of our
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nation
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so this pride month
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i want us to each think about what
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community really means
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that we’re not just here because of the
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identities we hold but because we show
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up for one another when it counts
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if you’re excited for pride i want you
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to hold on tight to that joy that
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celebration
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and then i want you to take to the
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streets and lift your voice in protest
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i want you to march for lgbtq plus lives
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for black lives for roe versus wade
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i want you to tell the people in your
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life why we need them to join us
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now is the time to tell your friends and
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family why it is more important than
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ever that they practice allyship and
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show up for those who need them most
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this is an emergency
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but it’s also an opportunity
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the next chapter of our movement is yet
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to be written
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and we have the power to write a chapter
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where we not only save ourselves but win
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a brighter future for the ones who come
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after us that’s the story
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and that’s the promise of pride
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