As we kick off Pride 2026, let’s look back a few months to the “Predators” going Full Rainbow:
Science tells us that there is no correlation between spending every night at the bathhouse and contracting monkeypox. Nonetheless, “Boston health officials to offer residents mpox vaccines at Pride event, amid uptick in cases” (state-sponsored WBUR):
The city will offer mpox vaccinations at the City Hall Pride flag-raising ceremony at on June 1 at 1 p.m.
Let’s shift to the other coast… For children in Ketchikan, Alaska who want to get an early start on the 2SLGBTQQIA+ lifestyle, the local bookstore was set up for them (photos from May 29, 2026):
Rainbow: A First Book of Pride is for “Preschool – Kindergarten”.
The town is less than 1% Black and the percentage of 2SLGBTQQIA+ is unclear, but the bookstore offers a book featuring at least some people at the intersection of Black and 2SLGBTQQIA+:
Example: Marsha P. Johnson. From Wikipedia:
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Johnson wore women’s clothing for the first time when she was five years old. After graduating from high school, she moved to Manhattan, where she regularly spent time on 42nd Street in Times Square, working at the local Childs Restaurants and supplementing her income through begging and sex work. … After the beginning of the AIDS pandemic in New York in 1980, she cared for her friends who were dying of AIDS and engaged in AIDS-related activism. She disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1992, with her body being found floating in the Hudson River on July 6. While police initially ruled her death a suicide, many speculate that she was either murdered, chased into the water, or fell in accidentally. She was 46.
Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2026
> Wiki Loves Pride 2026 is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBTQ-related content across all Wikimedia projects, organized by Wikimedia LGBTQ+.
Phil’s collection could probably quintuple their existing images of Pride. “It’s Pride O’clock Somewhere.” [tm]
https://philip.greenspun.com/copyright/
There was a Marilyn Monroe impersonator convention in Palm Springs with mostly bearded impersonators. Would be the luckiest lion alive if that did it.
Tru dat — some of those Marilyn impersonations were low effort, yo.
So awesome to see Butt-Fucker Pride is alive and well in Ketchikan. The good anal-minded citizens there are right in sync with their brethren in Lincoln, MA (and everywhere in between with lots of Transvestites too!). The young kindergartners of Ketchikan are so blessed. I am hopeful they will have a day-long “teach-in” in the public square to enjoy a Festival of Butt-Fucking (and Transvestites too!). No better excuse for a school field trip (or, better still, invite the Butt-Fuckers and Transvestites into the school for a live spectacle).
I’m proud that we no longer persecute people for LGBT+ (lettuce, guac, bacon, and tomato + mayo sandwiches). What we need to fight for is liberation from “particular”. This word is taking over the Internet, NPR, and OTA TV. By the way if you have to use it (200 of 1000000 frequency in English), please say par-tic’-u-lar, par’-tic-u-lar sounds like you learned it from two mommies. Currently having a Wikipedia edit battle over an article that uses it 7 times in two pages, two usages in the same sentence! Let’s get outraged over stuff that matters, people.
Don’t get me started on ‘rate of speed’.
As we close out Day One of Butt-Fucking Pride Month and all the celebrations associated with it, I wanted to let everyone in on really BIG secret. Some folks have said that Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidential Library was meant to evoke a large Trash Can. I get it, but I want to let you know that it was really meant to evoke a very large Dildo, which as a big-boned Transvestite is something I really enjoy. I know, very funny, but don’t laugh until you’ve tried it!
Big Mike, you a dirty-minded old man!
It sure is ugly. Thanks for removing precious Chicago park space to build it. If you put a big pride banner on it Phil might take a picture for his exhaustive records.
> it was really meant to evoke a very large Dildo
Sometimes a trash can is just a trash can. Make sure you fill it with woke books and guide books on the Vineyard.
I think the tides are turning, at least at my Big Company.
As of early last year, I have received very few emails reminding us about DEI or Pride topics. In fact, I haven’t seen a single DEI-related email this year, nor have I seen any mention of Pride month for the month of June!
Perhaps Trump shut them off, or perhaps company leadership finally concluded that employees are tired of this B.S.
When the annual mandatory training season arrives later this year, I will be curious to see whether DEI training is still on the list.