I recently received a journalism award that I cannot publicize—because it recognizes a profile piece I wrote about a queer businessman, and that article appeared in the pages of a federally-funded magazine. In today’s atmosphere of radical white reassertion, drawing attention to such an honor would risk the disappearance of that now award-winning story, which still lives — and educates the public — on executive branch servers.

I make this observation not for the sin of pride but to showcase how queer folk have received the message that any expression of Pride can attract the stomp. Unsanctioned speech today lives at risk of being dust-binned through powerplays. Despite any overtures about meritocracy, proponents of the white culture war stand at odds with the untamed diversity of excellen

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