White Supremacy in Rainbow

Global Pride and Black Lives Matter in the Era of Covid

Bibliographic Data

ID19581908
AuthorsD Alex Piña (University of California, Irvine, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume3
Publication date2022-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Sociology Journal of Critical Praxis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2563-3686 • E-ISSN: 2563-3694
PublisherYork University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.25071/2563-3694.64
OpenAlexW4283803397
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

Written in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article explores the limits of solidarity between LGBTQ Pride and Black Lives Matter (BLM). In 2020, most Pride events around the world were cancelled due to COVID-19; however, many were reimagined in new forms that centered BLM. Using Global Pride 2020 as a case study of one such event, I argue for an understanding of Pride organizations’ cooptation of BLM that extends beyond clichés of performative activism to consider how such solidarities serve to legitimate logics of white supremacy. At a time when global pandemics of disease and racial violence made clear the importance of reimagining existing systems, and radical change became increasingly conceivable to the global public, I question the compatibility between conventional discourses of LGBTQ progress and Black freedom. Specifically, I examine how Pride organizations used the global disruption and devastation of COVID-19 to summon support from the BLM movement while simultaneously perpetuating anti-blackness especially and racialized homonationalisms more generally

Aesthetics · Art · Media studies · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pride · Racism · Sociology · Solidarity · White supremacy · Gender Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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