Our first impression of the color pink is that it belongs to girls and, more importantly, that it doesn’t belong to boys—an inchoate understanding of sexuality that eventually grows into more complex prejudices between men and women. PINK, with its name, encourages a freedom from those prejudices and the idea that, without them, sexuality becomes dimensional, like love, rather than categorical, like gender. 

PINK melodizes the questions we’re asking ourselves again as a culture. Its message of solidarity is delivered not through Kendrick’s lyrics, but through his creativity, which is so palpably firing from a place of unflinching personal acceptance. If we can see ourselves in a new, compassionate light, we’ll continue to notice the similarities that tie us together.