before the end of the month, it feels important to share the words Grant Howitt did in his newsletter at the start of this June:
Itâs Pride month. Last year, Maz wrote a furious piece about how we - and by âweâ I mean anyone who publicly deviates from the norm - are being stamped out by those in power due to a mix of fear and cowardice. And theyâre still doing it! More, even!
You know they just built a Catch-22 for trans people in the UK? They made it so you canât piss in the right bathroom for your gender and if you donât piss in the right bathroom for your gender they say youâre not a proper trans and deny you access to affirmative care.
They hate us. I canât quite figure out why - I havenât done fuck all to them. Theyâve come for the trans folks and the sex workers and before long even the token allied homosexual people they keep around to gaywash their exclusionary hatred will be thrown under the bus in a desperate desire to return to a mythic past when you could categorically determine what genitals everyone had at any given time thanks to clearly-defined societal rules.
Because that matters. Because thatâll save us. The fucking dolts.
Here is my Pride statement for 2026 - fuck âem. Give no quarter. Cede no ground. Weâre here. Love each other. Weâre gay, and bisexual, and ace, and trans, and nonbinary, and intersex, and difficult. Weâre all the things they donât want us to be. Weâre not going to stop on anyone elseâs account and neither should you.
