This June, pride month celebrations and protests are backlit by political unrest spurred by ICE raids, mobilization of the California National Guard against protestors in Los Angeles and police response to protests. In light of these imminent threats to undocumented members of the queer community, LA Pride organizers stated that they were “actively working with local Law Enforcement to ensure a safe and welcoming environment at all Pride events.” Evan Sevaly, CM ’26 argues that the cognitive dissonance of asking the members of the queer community to put their trust in the same people who are persecuting them is indicative of how pride has been leveraged by the forces it was found to fight against.
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Black queer spirituality as sacred epistemology: Pomona alumnus, Don Abram gives this year’s Lorn S. Foster Lecture
The Pomona Politics department hosted Rev. Don Abram, PO ’16, a public theologian and LGBTQ+ community advocate, on Wednesday, March 27.
OPINION: The LGBTQ+ community still needs authentic queer spaces
The growing societal acceptance of LGBTQ+ people does not take away the value of authentic, non-corporate spaces created by and for queer people, writes Nikki Smith SC ’25.
OPINION: Don’t take pride in ideological inflexibility
No one should congratulate themselves for refusing to consider ideas that disagree with a certain narrative, nor shame others for doing so.