10. The world sans gay pride parade is different than ours in more than just symbolic ways.
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11. Pride parades don't just celebrate gay rights, they expanded what is politically imaginable and hence politically possible.
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@thephatic gay pride is a momentary occupation of the public sphere, a yearly reminder that we will take the space we need2 replies 12 retweets 16 likes -
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13. In a still homophobic world, a pride parade is way of saying, "another world is possible.In this time & place we can live in the future"
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14. Let me suggest that the Confederate flag (or its absence) is like the pride parade: it helps shape what is imaginable & hence possible
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@mpesce Both processes are ongoing. Comparisons between black civil rights & LGBT struggles are common place.
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