This is Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Hedley. The first Pride was a protest, but is queer

liberation inherently anti-government? You'll hear a lot of discussion about that dynamic this

month as Pride Month festivities take place in cities

across the country. When a political figure like Jill Biden takes the stage at a Pride event, some people

feel supported. When Pride attendees see police, some of them feel safer.

But a lot of queer people feel like their presence is a hostile incursion into a community

that was and is at odds with the government.

So should pride actually be for everyone,

or everyone other than cops and politicians?

As a sex worker in this community who also considers myself to be queer and part of the LGBTQ community,

I do not have trust in the government to have LGBTQ and sex worker and other people with marginalized sexual

and gender identity's best interest at heart or to be interested in

protecting them. Jesse Sage, a Pittsburgh-based writer, joins Hear Me Out in just a moment.

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