One of the unexpected joys of my recent trip to Portugal was being in town during the Pride Parade. I'm stumbled across it, which is a surprising thing to say about a massive parade. Nevertheless, I wasn't planning on going downtown - my legs were very unhappy with me after a long day of walking - but it was a beautiful evening and I hadn't made it into the city center yet. I ended up hanging out on the side of the road waiting for the parade to pass by, and it had already been going for a while when I got there. I leaned against a building and wept. It was impossible to not think about what was happening at that moment back in the US, and members of the LGBTQ+ community were suffering because of the actions of Trump and the radical right. For not the first time, I was deeply ashamed of my country.
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