today i have to facilitate community consultations for my city's terrible Pride festival and i am Not looking forward to it

i mean, by 'have to' i mean 'infiltrated their management via volunteering because an activist group i'm in is trying to get cops kicked out of pride and this seemed like a good way to influence the process'

but i am still not looking forward to trying to wrangle a bunch of libs into not acting like cops are entitled to queer spaces

i am probably going to hate this because i hate people IRL but our pride has repeatedly shown that it absolutely cannot be trusted to treat people of colour with any respect to speak of so, here we are
last year when some Black activists tried to get cops out, the pride committee literally had a 'secret meeting' (their words) with their almost-entirely-white committee and like 3 activists that was apparently 97% White Guilt and But Excluding Cops Is Mean

and by 'white guilt' i mean some white girl literally started crying at the idea of cops not being entitled to being a part of pride when their presence is literally dangerous to a huge portion of the ACTUAL queer community
literally cried because she was So Distressed
and no one stopped her
and now the pride committee is all "(: well people of colour need to resolve this with police on their own (: we'd love to work with them but they haven't approached us (:"

the head of the board literally said she would love it if BLM or an equivalent stopped the parade to march in front like they did in Toronto last year, but THEY LITERALLY DID THAT AT OUR LAST PARADE and she thought it was 'rude' and told them it was 'a bad idea' that would make them look 'disrespectful'

sorry our pride just really fucking sucks and i'm annoyed at having to pretend not to think that so that they'll let me be involved in its organization

they're a bunch of elitists who require a high level of experience, time and effort in order to be involved in this shit, by which they exclude huge swaths of the community, bc they're mostly Rich White Queer Libs
at the last meeting i had with them they kept doing the whole 'we don't want pride to become political (: (: but i mean The SJWs will be there and their opinions count too i guess (: (:" (again, SJWs is THEIR wording)
like
what the fuck
IT'S PRIDE
YES, POLITICAL

lmao looks like everyone at my table is gonna be shit disturbers 😎
including a cutie I've been talking to on OkCupid 😘😘