These days, you can find that pride rainbow, once a grassroots emblem, slapped on just about everything and for sale just about everywhere. Since its debut at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 1978, the rainbow flag has become a nearly ubiquitous symbol of the fabulousness, strength, and fierceness of the LGBTQ+ community.īut maybe you’ve never been big on Pride shirts and gear. Still, the visual symbols of Pride Month are more important than ever, and you can show your pride by wearing it. While it’s a huge bummer that pride parades, like so many fun summer traditions, have fallen victim to COVID-19, it’s uplifting that we’ve all moved on from learning how to bake banana bread to learning how to defund the police (as a step on the road to abolition, of course).Īnd here’s some other okay (?) news, honey: you may be able to cancel a parade, but you can’t cancel Pride-or the revolution! Now more than ever we’ve all had to figure out alternative ways to come together to celebrate milestones, and Pride Month is no exception. And this Pride, you really shouldn’t be expecting them. LGBTQIA+ Pride parades are like Christmas, your birthday, and the Fourth of July rolled into one and doused in glitter.
