Their show of solidarity in this instance is certainly well-intentioned. Heartened! I genuinely appreciate the show of support Target is giving the queer community by putting out this Pride section. I love a good rainbow outfit, I love to wave a Pride flag in the right environment. In school I was very into school spirit, dressing up and rah rah for the team and I feel like my inherent cheerleader tendencies come out a lot when it comes to Gay Pride stuff. In the 70s being gay could get you fired or killed, and while that is still true today in many places, it is pretty amazing that you can come out and a big box store is giving you a high five by supplying your Pride gear.ĭelighted! I love rainbow stuff. They are doing this because there are gay dollar$ to be made off of this and they want to cash in on this market. It surprises me how far the acceptance of LGBT folks has come in my lifetime. She didn’t want me to have to take the risk of homophobic hate crimes and I wasn’t out of the closet yet. Surprised! In 1997-just twenty years ago-my gay mom would take her upside down triangle rainbow window cling off her car before I drove it.
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It is totally possible to hold multiple conflicting emotions at once and I had a bunch in the Target Pride section. There were even tee shirts for couples to wear together to complete a rainbow for the ultimate dykealike experience and… PREFERRED PRONOUN PINS.
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There were pool floats, pride flag shawls, so many tanks and tee shirts with a lot of clever pride sayings, and a whole unicorn costume onesie that I almost called Dara to beg to buy. An entire clothing section dedicated to rainbows for June was pretty remarkable growth within a year. At the same Target a year ago, there was one wall of Pride stuff and I thought that was a lot. I was cruising through Target the other day, and I saw a field of rainbow gear in the clothing section.