In Florida, sex is serving as both resistance and relief.
With all the noise Ron DeSantis makes these days, you’d think he’d single-handedly run every gay and immigrant out of Florida. But as both an immigrant and a gay, I’ve never let a bigot ruin my fun. So to kick off Pride month this year, I headed into the belly of the beast for Pensacola Pride.
Here in the heart of American fascism, sex was serving as both resistance and relief. I watched the ginger come out of a parked car with a smile and a condom wrapper. For a minute, I imagined what he might have been up to, and then my mind drifted somewhere else:These thoughts are more related than they seem.
Bayard Rustin was one of the godfathers of the Civil Rights Movement, chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, deeply involved in the Montgomery bus boycott, and an adviser to Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. A decade before the march, he was already a prominent activist. In 1953, he was in Pasadena, California, giving a speech about anti-colonial struggles in West Africa. Afterward, he got in a car with two admirers from the audience.
How many queers in our history have had a similar experience, transforming criminalization and state attacks on our sexualities and culture into the fuel we need to resist, politically and erotically, systems of oppression? Indeed, when you look at the last 50 years or so of queer history, what you find is a flip-flop of crackdowns and setbacks followed by upswells of queer sexual and political energy.
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