pride movements
Rainbow flag parades
Pride movements are organized efforts advocating for the rights, dignity, and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people.
The term encompasses marches, parades, and political activism that emerged from the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City.
Pride here reclaims a word historically weaponized against queer people through shame: The local pride movement organized the city's first parade in 1985.
- Stonewall riotsLGBTQ uprising against police raid
- gay rights movementOrganized push for homosexual equality
- marriage equalitySame legal wedlock for all
- drag culturePerformance art of exaggerated femininity
- anti-discrimination lawsLegislation forbidding unequal treatment
Harvey Milk · visibility · love is love · queer joy · ACT UP · ballroom culture · intersectionality · trans rights · equal rights · queer cinema · Obergefell v. Hodges · born this way · queer theory · queer literature · coming out · coming out story · chosen family · allyship
pride movementsreligious right
Faith-based political movement
pride movementsshame
Painful awareness of failure
internalized homophobia · self-loathing · internalized shame · stigma · disgrace
pride movementssilence
Total lack of sound
invisibility · concealment · passing · secrecy · discretion