I have mixed feelings about this "no kink at Pride" thing.

Part of me feels like sure, let's do "no kink at Pride," on the condition that there's a Folsom Street Fair equivalent, some sorta flog-a-riffic leather festival to make up for all the fucking JOY that just disappeared.

And part of me feels resentful of how I stopped being welcome at Pride because I'm not well-off or young, so my feelings are very much "fuck trying to get some sort of nice gentrified version."

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Life is short, we're not even completely through a devastating pandemic, and outside of the lucky few we're all getting relatively poorer every year. In these conditions harshing a festival for being... well, festive... seems like a shitty thing in general.

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