PHOTOS: Philly Pride Celebrates Freedom and Liberty

After the first election of Donald J. Trump in 2016, America was met with a barrage of think pieces, books, studies, political postmortems, pop songs, and influencer videos about the importance of meeting in the middle. Somehow, if we just built a bridge to those in our own country who would happily strip away our freedoms and autonomy because our existence threatens their narrow view of the world, maybe we could all get along. Never mind that doing so would require submitting to their fascistic will while sacrificing ourselves and our communities in the process. I thought it was foolish then, and now I think it surpasses foolishness and dives headlong into the downright harmful. If someone is wrong and unwilling to even entertain another point of view, my time is better spent building community with the people disenfranchised by those who cast us all as their enemy. I reject finding any middle ground. Keep Reading →