Price is not very good about celebrating Pride. I think it may be because the school year ends in May, and all of us, administrators included, scatter to the four winds and it’s hard to get anybody to focus on anything USC-related. We also had a busy year this year with the 90th anniversary and multiple retirements.

That is no real excuse, and this Pride month was a big one, with LA turning out with so much pride everywhere that it made me joyful.

And it is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. It’s entirely possible to focus too much on one event in queer history, but Stonewall mattered, a lot, leading to the first gay rights march in NYC.

The Shoah Foundation at USC did a *great* job this year with one beautiful blog post after another that deserves a shout-out, and my new scholarly home at USC, USC Dornsrife, tweeted out a lovely message with this super-cute graphic:

Whatever the reasons that Pride month got away from us at USC Price, I wanted to echo the everyday sentiment from Dornsrife for my Price students and colleagues: we love you as you are, all day every day. You are a credit to USC and we are so proud of you. We are lucky to have you here, and you amaze us with your accomplishments.