Pride: Corporate or Radical

David talks with Tyler Breisacher of DSA Queer Caucus about the San Francisco Pride parade — famously the annual celebration of LGBTQIA+ identities, but beyond the corporate-sponsored festivities it remains the locus of a liberation struggle which is still being fought today. At the parade this past June, protestors halted the parade for nearly an hour – an action that was broken up violently by the police in a grim reenactment of historic conflicts.

We want to be clear about ascribing credit: although some of our chapter members did participate, the protest was not DSA-organized.

Correction: When this episode was first issued, my intro mistakenly attributed the statement read by Tyler during the interview to the Berkeley Free Clinic (berkeleyfreeclinic.org / twitter: @BFCoutreach). The statement read by Tyler was not by BFC, although they did issue a different statement about pulling out of Pride: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrjNnfoAVdxLENYJzxDWbdcUcZ2Sl53bt72RogW4XB5xGxaQ/viewform My apologies for the mistake! - David