NEW EPISODE: We're kicking off a new (occasional) series on Gay Therapy Slop, and we're getting started with what is probably the best gay self-help book of all time: THE JOY OF GAY SEX (1977).

Down with corporate Pride! Pride is a protest! Stonewall was a riot! Pride month discourse has become so predictable that we make fun of it before it even gets here. In this episode we try to look beyond posturing slogans and history-distorting morality tales to confront the many possible meanings and feelings one might have about Pride. And as usual, we find that our debates are nothing new. We read Andrew Holleran’s 1984 Christopher Street essay, “We Must March, My Darlings,” which suggests a cultural politics of Pride that preserves it as an annual ritual with shifting audiences and meanings, one that need not always be stridently political but which can gather a solidaristic charge in particular political moments. Pride doesn’t always have to be a protest, and the existence of normie gays living basic is not a tragedy—it’s the ultimate goal of successful politics.