With Pride Month behind us, queer people worldwide must now turn to another age-old tradition: vacuuming glitter off our floors and furiously deleting all those texts we shouldn’t have sent. Meanwhile, corporate brands and cishet allies again get to pretend we don’t exist until they have to sell us another rainbow microwave or need us to overhaul their wardrobe and home decor. But the dawn of July has brought yet another call for celebration: Yes, dear queers, it’s time for LGBTQ+ Wrath Month.
If you’re not familiar with the term “wrath month,” don’t worry. It’s relatively new. But given our current political climate — one in which the Supreme Court is poised to be more conservative than ever, and in which the Trump administration continues to target our community in ways both subtle and overt — we have a lot to be wrathful about. It’s also a great opportunity to make yet another month of the calendar year all about us.
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Now that you know it exists, you might be wondering how to celebrate. Lucky for you, we’ve assembled a handy list of activities for Wrath Month newcomers to dig into, so you can celebrate and frighten as many Trump supporters as possible.
Attend a Protest
Remember how the first Pride celebration was a riot? Well let’s try to take Wrath Month back to our roots by being loud and proud in our opposition to this administration. Protests are cropping up across the country against ICE atrocities at the border, and even abroad as well in preparation for Trump’s visit to the UK.
Many use pride Month as a springboard to criticize the corporatization and respectability politics that have co-opted the occasion, but that’s what’s so great about Wrath Month! Be queer. Be mad. Don’t let anyone stop you! And don’t ever let anyone lecture you about not being civil enough.
Register to Vote
Why aren’t you registered to vote? You should register to vote! And then you should vote. Just imagine how upset it will make the powers that be when you vote them out of office. Primarying people in your own party who don’t support you is also an incredibly satisfying experience. Find out where to register as an act of revenge!
Support Therese Patricia Okoumou
On the Fourth of July, a Black woman named Therese Patricia Okoumou scaled the Statue of Liberty to protest the Trump administration’s detention and separation of immigrant families. She said she would not come down until the children in ICE custody were freed. She has since been detained and faces the possibility of deportation herself. Hey, queer people! Why don’t we do everything we possibly can to support her?
Abolish ICE
Abolishing ICE is the new brunch. All the cool queers are doing it, and for good reason. LGBTQ+ people in ICE custody face higher rates of sexual harassment and abuse, and the agency’s violations of basic human rights can’t be allowed to continue without resistance. Let’s make Sylvia Rivera proud and allot some of our queer rage into calling for ICE to be completely dismantled. Sound like a plan?
Support Aquaria in Her Feud With Bebe Rexha
I’m not saying it’s the most pressing issue of our day, but we should bend the knee to our newly crowned Drag Race winner and pledge our fealty in her ongoing battle with singer Bebe Rexha, who took umbrage when four of the Season 10 girls acted cold towards her. How dare she try the queen during Wrath Month?
Foil Scarlett Johansson From Playing Any More Queer Roles
Apparently unsatisfied after playing a Japanese person in Ghost in the Shell, ScarJo, who is white and cis, now plans to play a trans person in the upcoming film Rub & Tug. Please do not tip Scarlett or her agents off about any gay, bisexual, or nonbinary roles, lest she consume them in her quest to play everything and everyone except for a cisgender straight white woman. It’s your Wrath Month duty.
Support Each other
Whether online or off, supporting each other is the single best thing we can do as a community, and it strikes terror into the hearts of our enemies. We live in frightening times, it’s true. But checking in on one another, asking each other what’s needed, and showing up when the most marginalized among us need assistance has always been the glue that keeps us all together. No matter what month we’re in, that much remains true.
See you all again after LGBTQ+ Sloth Month. If you need us, we will be sleeping until Gluttony Month (September) arrives.
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