On the Value of Resistance

When our institutions fail us, we must invent.

Image from Lilli Vincenz, Gay and Proud, 1970, Video, Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01991430.

Whenever “Pride Month” ends, I find myself reflecting more on the social movement that once was—and what can be done today. Maybe it adds to this meditation that just a few days after the end of June we observe the Fourth of July. …