"I am utterly surprised to find ourselves where we are,"
"I thought we had purged Trumpism in 2021. But the culture allowed him to maintain his central position, and here we are again, with LGBTQ people, especially trans people, the primary target."
"To see a person terminated for a Pride flag - that is erasure by intimidation," Wilson said. "It sends a message: you may not openly exist."
"McCarthyism, Lavender Scare, repeat. Red Scare, Lavender Scare, repeat. We haven't learned our history, and that's why History Months matter," he said."
Rodney Wilson created LGBTQ+ History Month in 1994 to provide annual education, remembrance, and dignity and to prevent erasure of queer lives and contributions. Three decades later, renewed Republican-led attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, especially against trans people, have raised the stakes for remembrance. FBI Director Kash Patel fired a probationary agent for displaying a small Pride flag, calling it "inappropriate political signage," while dismantling diversity initiatives and banning Pride displays across FBI offices. Wilson likens current actions to the mid-20th-century Lavender Scare when federal workers were purged over perceived homosexuality, warning that failing to remember history enables repeating patterns of purge and intimidation.
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