Austin Ahlman is a reporter at the Open Markets Institute and a contributing writer and former politics fellow at The Intercept. He began his journalism career as an intern for The American Prospect, where he has continued to contribute in various capacities. He hails from Norfolk, Nebraska, and is based in Washington, D.C.

Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good.

As Pride month kicks off under a hostile federal government that takes its cues from a homophobic and transphobic far-right movement, the typical steady drip of rainbow-painted logos and feel-good news has been replaced with a stream of coverage of corporations pulling their sponsorship dollars from…