It’s Pride Season Again (thanks, I hate it)!

Bailey reflects on the return of Pride, biphobia, and doing the work anyway.

An event collaborator recently emailed me about an upcoming Bi+ Night we’re hosting and said, “I’m so looking forward to this. Since it’s the Friday before June, do you think it should be Pride themed?”

Now, I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea and think that I’m being ungrateful about this fresh energy being ushered into bi+ event organizing. I’m thrilled! So, when I say this, please don’t judge me too harshly. Fuck that.

I didn’t say this, of course—there’s no need to be rude to a collaborator who was really just trying to celebrate—and instead wrote something to the effect of: “We’re hosting a lot of Pride events throughout June. I don’t have a ton of bandwidth. Let’s just have this night be Bi+ Night.”

Pride is not a fun time for me, and pretending that it is…probably isn’t good for my health. And as a lot of us bi+ people brace for the impact of the biphobic dogpile that accompanies every Pride season, I don’t want any of us to go into the summer with the belief that we aren’t allowed to take up space at a queer event.

Fuck that, too.