It shouldn’t be news to anyone that conditions have gotten increasingly dire for much of the LGBTQ+ community over the last few years. Johnson, the venerable foremother of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, but for years, I sauntered blithely by the MeMe’s doors on my way to first dates and queer parties and all the other trappings of an out millennial lesbian’s New York social life, never really stopping to internalize Johnson’s message. MeMe’s): “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” Those words were spoken by Marsha P. At some point during the summer of 2020, a quote was painted on the door of my favorite queer diner in Brooklyn (now-shuttered, R.I.P.
