Preservation is an act of resistance
WorldPride has ended, but we keep returning to a question that followed us throughout it: What are we, as a community of people, responsible for preserving? Not simply buildings. Not simply photographs, artifacts, or plaques. Not even history in the traditional sense. Said plainly, we are responsible for preserving memory: the full, complicated, sometimes uncomfortable truth of how we got here, who brought us here, and what it cost them. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. At WorldPride in Amsterdam this year, we had […]