#Islanders, #Mets, #Packers, #Badgers. Likely to call you out on misogynistic and/or racist humor. Not sorry if you can't hang. She/her. Gallon+ blood donor. ๐ฉธ
People keep asking why Gen Z is checking out.
Why they are not buying houses.
Not getting married. Not having kids.
Not participating in the economy the way previous generations did.
Here is why.
A house costs eight times their salary.
A kid costs $2,000 a month before food and clothes.
A wedding costs $50,000.
A car payment is $800.
A doctor visit can bankrupt them.
They didn't opt out of the American Dream.
The American Dream got priced out of their reach before they ever had a chance to reach for it.
If you're the type of person who posts about being straight as some kind of act of defiance during pride month, know these 2 things:
1. Everyone now thinks you're secretly gay
2. The people who like your post are probably also secretly gay
Have fun exploring! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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.