#1426 The Liberation and Assimilation of Pride Month
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 June 2021
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Summary
Air Date 6/26/2021
Today we take a look at the mainstreaming of Pride in recent decades and what that is doing to the liberatory origins of the Pride movement. Corporatization and "pink washing" highlight the wide-but-shallow support for LGBTQ liberation while debate over inclusion of LGBTQ police marching in uniform highlight the remaining oppressions that are still ignored by large swaths of the more mainstream-friendly LGBTQ community.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Are Corporations Taking Advantage of Pride - Hysteria - Air Date 6-17-21
Tien Tran and Shaniqua McClendon stop by to discuss cause marketing and why pride is feeling more pink washed than year’s past. Finally, why Batman is actually the worst boyfriend...in Sanity Corner.
Ch. 2: Pride - PFLAG National What Makes Pride - Air Date 6-1-21
Viewers get to know two BIPOC Pride organizations and their organizers: Jay Walker, Co-Founder of Reclaim Pride Coalition, and Taylor Alxndr, Executive Director of Southern Fried Queer Pride.
Ch. 3: The History of LGBTQ+ Pride Part 1 - Past Present - Air Date 6-15-21
In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the history of LGBTQ+ Pride.
Ch. 4: Kink, Cops And Corporations At Pride - It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders - Air Date 6-4-21
When Pride comes around every June, the same arguments start up again— should there be kink, cops and corporations at Pride? And who is Pride for? Sam talks to writer and author Roxane Gay.
Ch. 5: The History of LGBTQ+ Pride Part 2 - Past Present - Air Date 6-15-21
Ch. 6: The Status of Laws and Policies Targeting the Transgender Community - The Takeaway - Air Date 6-1-21
Across the country, state legislators have introduced bills that target members of the transgender community.
Ch. 7: Chasten Buttigieg Blasts Hypocrisy Of RNC Chair, Stresses The Equality Act - MSNBC - Air Date 6-9-21
Chasten Buttigieg blasts the RNC chairwoman for claiming her party is supportive of LGBTQ Americans
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Progress on voting rights, filibuster, SCOTUS upholds Obamacare - The BradCast - Air Date 6-17-21
The Republicans' stolen-and-packed Supreme Court approved discrimination against same-sex couples by a Philadelphia foster care group, but LGBTQ advocacy groups say the very narrow ruling could have been much worse.
Ch. 9: Pride 2021 has set a record in anti-trans bills in America - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 6-6-21
Ivette Feliciano spoke with Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, about this record setting year in state legislation aimed at the transgender community.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: American Rescue Plan, Equality Payment - Rich
Ch. 11: Curation - Amy
Ch. 12: Corporatocracy - Christian
Ch. 13: Pumping up Twitter - Alan from Connecticut
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 14: Final comments on @WhoWroteBetter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/WhoWroteBetter)
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:07.2 | a look at the mainstreaming of pride in recent decades and what that is doing to the liberatory |
| 0:13.2 | origins of the Pride movement. |
| 0:15.1 | Corporatization and pinkwashing highlight the wide but shallow support for LGBTQ liberation |
| 0:21.8 | while debate over inclusion of LGBTQ police, marching in uniform, highlight the remaining |
| 0:28.2 | oppressions that are still ignored by large swaths of the more mainstream-friendly LGBTQ |
| 0:34.2 | community. |
| 0:35.2 | Quips today are from hysteria, pee-flag national, past present, it's been a minute with Sam |
| 0:41.7 | Sanders, the takeaway, MSNBC, the broadcast, and the PPS NewsHour. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to talk a little bit about the kind of corporate colonization of important |
| 0:59.2 | social causes and I want to draw a quick distinction. |
| 1:02.8 | I don't think that it's wrong for like any corporation to sound off about any issue. |
| 1:07.7 | We're talking specifically about the point at which it goes from being like, oh cool, |
| 1:13.5 | a bunch of people who work for this company are trying to put something out there that's |
| 1:17.6 | positive in the world and these people are just full of shit because there is a line. |
| 1:23.4 | I want to talk about something called pinkwashing, which actually has two meanings. |
| 1:27.4 | I want to talk about something called greenwashing, which is like pinkwashing but about the environment |
| 1:32.4 | and just the sort of feminism incorporating that happened with other issues as well. |
| 1:38.3 | Greenwashing is the original cause marketing term. |
| 1:42.6 | I learned this yesterday as I was doing research on this. |
| 1:45.9 | Greenwashing was coined by an environmentalist who wrote an essay in 1986 about the hotel |
| 1:53.2 | industry. |
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