Nine years ago, I spoke at the Utah Pride Festival. I emphasized that Latinos were not slow on freedom, not slow on supporting marriage equality, not slow on liberation. I closed with the words: "History is a record of humans stumbling and stammering toward greater liberty. We are on the right path. In diverse languages and ways, our challenge is to keep going."
In 2019, we are still stumbling forward on many issues. We have had plain legal victories and others not so plain and perhaps dubious. One theme of this year's Pride Festival is "Persist." The Oxford American College Dictionary definition reads: "continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure. — continue to exist; be prolonged."
We persist. The signs of progress are plain. This week, Q Salt Lake asked candidates for Salt Lake City Mayor for messages in under 100 words on Pride and the LGBTQ community. Seven candidates responded (two broke the one-hundred-word limit, but just barely). The messages are positive. Two came from Latino candidates. One Latino candidate has gone so far as to schedule a Pride rally at The Sun Trapp.
We stumble toward liberty. We persist. Se hace el camino al andar.
Pride is about every day.
El orgullo no es tema de un día, sino de cada día.
In 2019, we are still stumbling forward on many issues. We have had plain legal victories and others not so plain and perhaps dubious. One theme of this year's Pride Festival is "Persist." The Oxford American College Dictionary definition reads: "continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure. — continue to exist; be prolonged."
We persist. The signs of progress are plain. This week, Q Salt Lake asked candidates for Salt Lake City Mayor for messages in under 100 words on Pride and the LGBTQ community. Seven candidates responded (two broke the one-hundred-word limit, but just barely). The messages are positive. Two came from Latino candidates. One Latino candidate has gone so far as to schedule a Pride rally at The Sun Trapp.
We stumble toward liberty. We persist. Se hace el camino al andar.
Pride is about every day.
El orgullo no es tema de un día, sino de cada día.
