The last year was a ghoulish one for queer folks in the United States, Bryan Washington writes. As schools banned books and state legislatures passed anti-trans bills, bars offered something holy.
But, at the end of July, Beyoncé released “.” I started the album in my car the morning after its release and simply never stopped playing it. That same weekend, ducking through Houston’s queer circuit, I heard a d.j. in a packed bar start one song from the record before slipping into another and then a third as the room worked itself into a pulsing huff of steam.
A few weeks later, back in the Bay Area, I stood vaping with some folks outside a queer bar when a gray S.U.V. settled beside us. Its driver unrolled the window, unstrapped himself from a seatbelt, and yelled that he was fine with a queer bar in his neighborhood, but that we needed to keep our fag shit in the building.
In November, sleepwalking toward a manuscript deadline, I visited Amsterdam. The city unfurled in a moody way, guided by canals and folks meandering on bikes along brick-laden roads. Every few streets, a rain-worn building sported the Progress Pride flag. It all felt like—and it all is—entirely too much. A country that prides itself on queer progressiveness on an international stage refuses to provide safety and human rights for its residents. This month, thehas become law, but what is the privilege of marriage to communities without the baseline necessities, who face regular violence in their attempts to secure them?
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