#been on boston lex and the irritation keeps. poking my brain

[bog-boyy]

really starting to piss me off how some white queers think that tearing down their siblings for “working w cops” is productive. it’s 2023. whether you like it or not, you have to get permits and inform the cops if you want to hold a big event in a city. it’s something you just have to do or it Usually gets shut down violently !

i’m not talking about pig floats in the parade, i’m specifically talking about the fact that you need some level of security for a major event like dykes on bikes or trans resistance march. esp w the political climate and far-right violence in the U.S. rn. SF Pride had a LOT of cops (visibly armed w ARs) and it was deeply unsettling when i last went in 2018. but there’s ways to place cops so their presence does less harm to attendees and ways to temporarily mitigate some degree of the trauma and threat they carry. so it’s really bothering me that i keep seeing white queers coming after their siblings for doing what they’re required to do. maybe start talking w them about alternative spaces and functions that WOULDN’T draw/legally require cops instead of talking shit and complaining online. maybe organize an event before coming for major visible events that have helped normalize queer people in the state. just a thought