For The New York Times, authors Jericho Brown and Carmen Maria Machado examine their personal relationships to Pride, 50 years after the first Pride March. “When I think of Pride and its marches,” Brown says. “I think of my younger self overwhelmed by those crowds at that parade almost 20 years ago. Indeed, the earliest Pride celebrations I attended looked more like Mardi Gras parades than the civil rights marches I was raised to revere.” Meanwhile, Machado reflects, “Pride should not be a smug acknowledgment of a job well done, or a job that’s done at all. If you understand the work to be over, you are mistaken.”
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