The year is 2035. In her third term, President Kamala Harris, in search of a new frontier for social justice, has committed to closing the outdoor equity gap.

The BLM and BLM come together by federal mandate to bring justice to wild nature. The first order of business is to acknowledge the privilege at work in outdoor spaces. Anyone who has been outside more than the average BIPOC must donate to building an equity escalator up Mount Washington or lose the right to enter state and federal parks. The privileged group currently gate keeping outdoor spaces are encouraged by tax hikes to surrender the space they occupy to a member of the pride community.

Camping permits (all camping must be permitted to combat the recent rise in wilderness gang violence) shall be issued on an intersectional basis to whoever has been most excluded from nature, such as mobility scooter users of colour. In order to increase accessibility, all permitted camping sites are paved and fitted with street lights and WiFi.

During the pride month celebrations, the remaining trees in sidewalk grates are spray painted with rainbows and murals of gay sex scenes from brokeback mountain. At night the cities bus in lights shows, DJs and crowds of pride goers. The few remaining /out/men to evade detection hide in the mountains and go to sleep to the distant echo's of monkeypox spreading through the valley. "Gay whores outdoors" they hear, the words faint and crackling but growing louder.
"Gay whores outdoors."