🏳️🌈🚹come out as Anti-Fascist
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 It’s National Coming-Out Day! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
We have more ways than ever to define our identities—embracing the full spectrum of our LGBTQ+ selves and recognizing asexual and nonbinary people as part of our rainbow.
Yet we are living in dangerous times. The President has named “Antifa”—an idea, not an organization—as a terrorist group, without any factual or legal foundation. Vague concepts like “anti-family” and “trans ideology” are being labeled as violent speech by our own government and falsely tied to anti-fascist movements, even though this kind of expression is constitutionally protected—far less extreme than flag burning, which the Supreme Court has also affirmed as protected speech. Figures like Pam Bondi have stood on national stages promising to “hunt down” progressive movements as if they were cartels.
Dissent is being criminalized. Antifa often refers to disorganized groups that counter protest fascists or attempt to protect other legal protestors from state and alt-right violence. Anti-fascist is just being against fascism—so anyone who is a liberal, leftest, or supports democracy or pluralism. We are being pressured to retreat back into the closet—as queer and allied people—just to avoid being branded as “left-wing extremists.” We are being made to fear being visible, being vocal, being out..
But I am queer.
I am a homoromantic, bisexual, cis man.
I am an anti-fascist (which I thought all of U.S. were)
I am a democratic socialist (like Bernie, AOC—and much of Europe)
And I will not be closeted again. I am PROUD.
A week from today(the 18th) is the next No Kings Protest. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. is the next Resistance meeting, where we’ll be doing sign-making and safety planning. And tonight—come OUT, grab a flag, and build community. You are not alone.
Last note: Do not meet violence with violence. That is what they are hoping for—to justify invoking the Insurrection Act and declaring martial law. Our strength is to resist through solidarity, visibility, and peace
Come Out.
