For reasons I am embarrassed to publicly admit, I must switch from Fedora Linux to Microsoft Windows 11. I think I would rather kill myself, but here we are.
I think I've been chasing this high for the past year and its been a big motivating factor in me streaming and/or uploading. I've been using work as an excuse even though it hasn't be a genuine issue since March. (I'm self employeed now and make my own schedule).
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.