Before Jonah Tong answered his first post-game question, he congratulated Howie Rose 👏
"I know his impact won't be lost on every single one of us... he was one of the first people I met when I came up here... his smile will always be something I remember moving forward"
No one is shoving anything down anyone’s throat. It’s a flag. No one is asking you to fly it. They’re just asking you, for one month, to not lose your shit every time you see it.
Gay men and women in this country have been beaten and killed. They’ve been shunned by their own family. They’ve been called “sick” and “disordered.” All because of who they love.
You can’t handle looking at a flag for 30 days?
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.