Quiet Riot: remembering Stonewall, social progress in the ‘Love Simon’ Era

Initially published in Fenuxe Magazine.

It was the first Sunday in June, and hundreds of vibrantly-dressed adults, teens, and children sat in the grass in the central park of Salt Lake City’s downtown gathered around to see a stage full of bearded drag queens evangelize emphatically about civil rights progress in the LGBTQ+ community in decades past. Wit…