Use your best judgement about your safety based on what you know about the people around you-what they will notice, how much surveillance there is-and pick some the items you feel pretty certain will fly under their radar while you’re there, (very quietly) queer, and fabulous. In the meantime, here are some ideas for things you might do to mark Pride and keep yourself safe at the same time (please do this, we need you alive and well to dance again another day). Next year, I sincerely hope we’ll be back to the loud-and-proud version. This year, all of us are going to have to #celebratepridequietly-but some more than others. It’s incredibly soothing to the soul to feel like you can be fully yourself, even for a day.
Pride gives many of us queer folks an opportunity to see our experiences reflected, validated, and shown to be as beautiful as we are. Any which way, some of us are finding ourselves stuffed back into the closet right now and for a while to come. Maybe you know it’s just not safe for you to openly celebrate Pride at home this year (or… any year). Perhaps you, young lesbian, gay, bi, queer, or trans person, are currently living with your relatives, in a restricted-movement quarantine situation-together every day, all day, all the time.
