First, what’s the font they use for the pictures? Maybe I’ve got an untrained eye but it looks like all the ones I’ve seen have a really blocky white font with black outlining around the text. With that in mind I have a couple questions. Can you guys help me out with some serious advice on my definitely not serious problem? I read a lot of your Ask HTG articles, and I get the feeling I don’t have anything to worry about. I’d really like to do it in the style of those Internet meme pictures you see all over the place, but I’m not exactly a graphic designer (or even particularly clever). I want to make a funny picture to put in a coworker’s cubicle for his birthday next week. What’s the font that stands out so boldly on them and how do you make them? Read on as we answer a reader’s serious question about a not-so-serious topic. I may never feel fully comfortable at Pride events sponsored by Postmates, but is that the goal? Is the point of Pride for people like me to get cozy enough to forget its radical origins? Or should we be pooling our energy and our resources and our prodigious rage to protect the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community, not just when we’re all under attack, but 100% of the time? I know what Kramer, Johnson, and the rest of my queer and trans heroes would say: Now it’s up to us, the inheritors of their powerful legacies, to heed their call.Meme pictures, recognizable photos with sayings applied over top, pop up everywhere from Internet discussion boards to email forwards. The first Pride was a riot, after all, and the legacy of AIDS activist Larry Kramer looms large, reminding those of us queer folks who enjoy relative ease and comfort to keep fighting-keep pushing the barriers, keep shouting into the void, keep making ourselves heard-on behalf of those who do not. After all, this month was never intended to be comfortable. Maybe it’s okay to let anger and discomfort overwhelm me during Pride, though. “Oh, so queer and trans people are good enough to make money off of all June long, but not good enough to be protected at any level of government?” This year, I can’t help but succumb to anger when trying to reconcile the ongoing, ever-climbing profit margin of rainbow capitalism while my community is being harassed, targeted, and hunted. In February, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care for trans youths as “child abuse” earlier this month, in Ohio, an amendment to a bill was proposed to allow more or less anyone to question and demand proof of a student athlete’s gender while on Saturday, 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested in a U-Haul packed with riot gear on their way to a Pride event in Idaho. It shouldn’t be news to anyone that conditions have gotten increasingly dire for much of the LGBTQ+ community over the last few years. Johnson, the venerable foremother of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, but for years, I sauntered blithely by the MeMe’s doors on my way to first dates and queer parties and all the other trappings of an out millennial lesbian’s New York social life, never really stopping to internalize Johnson’s message. MeMe’s): “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” Those words were spoken by Marsha P. At some point during the summer of 2020, a quote was painted on the door of my favorite queer diner in Brooklyn (now-shuttered, R.I.P.

Meme text on image