in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming
that's solidarity baybeeee
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.
First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it's none of your business?
Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.
The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.
The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"
For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.
ALTThe image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
ALTThe above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
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June 22 2019 - A fascist trying to pick a fight at Bologna Pride gets more reaction than he bargained for. [video]
Exit, pursued by bear.
The description of the original video:
Translation:
“A neo-fascist, in all his Italian virility, begins to insult some women participating in Bologna Pride. This until, frightened by other protesters covered with glitter and by a bear far more virile than he, to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.”
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR. I’M SOBBING
La fuga, pursued by bear in glitter 🤣🤣🤣
“to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.” ROAST HIS ASS
the Strength, the Solidarity, and the Shade here is examplary
We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:
- That boy wearing jeans that are too tight
- Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them
- Having a beard and wearing a skirt
- Wearing any kind of choker
- Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.
No we don't. Respect ppls boundaries. If respect isn't normal anymore what will be normal then? Anything, no matter how it impacts or scars other peoples lives? Kink doesn't belongs to pride.
Look around you. Do you see where “No Kink At Pride” has led? Being transgender is illegal now. Exactly what people said would happen. You know what’s going to be next? Being gay is going to be illegal. Because being gay is not “respecting straight people’s boundaries”. They don’t want to see you. They want to kill you.
Happy International Asexuality Day!! 🖤♠️🩶💜
April 6th, 2023
Welp
i somehow got a higher mark on hard mode than easy mode lol (mauritius tripped me up on the easy mode one 😔)
sex workers fought in the street for you to be able to celebrate pride. sex workers rights should be an essential part of the pride celebration. I'm dead the fuck serious.
I love that so many people have mentioned Marsha P. Johnson in the tags, or made comments about black trans sex workers bc I know that includes Sylvia Rivera, but this post isn't just about them. This post is also about the kids who worked the streets of Greenwich Village who fought until the wee hours of morning on the first night of the stonewall uprising, even though THEY WEREN'T THE ONES THAT THE POLICE WERE TARGETTING THAT NIGHT. this is about those of us who have been fighting new censorship laws tooth and nail, the same laws that are now being used against trans and queer kids across the country and around the world. This is about the sex workers who tirelessly educated the public about safe sex methods during the AIDS crisis, when the government wouldn't even acknowledge that it is a sexually transmitted disease. Sex workers have fought for liberation from the very beginning and have CONTINUED to fight. we don't get to forget that our lives are considered "deviant". we are faced with that reality every single day, but many of us keep fighting for all "deviants" to be free to love, fuck, and live.
Every deviancy law that has ever been closed has been closed by a dog pile of sex workers tirelessly working to do so. Men, women, enbies, old sex workers, eighteen year olds who are homeless and angry, abled, disabled, black, white, latine, every race or ethnicity you can think of, but they all dogpile together on shitty laws and shitty authority figures and FIGHT for you. No cops at pride, keep the sex workers: cuz family friendly means you take care of the family that takes care of you, not sterilizing a protest for marketability.
"family friendly means you take care of the family that takes care of you, not sterilizing a protest for marketability."
fucking. this. thank you. 💜🌈
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Below that is yellow text that says:
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ALTCongrats to Nate Stevenson (creator of Lumberjanes, Nimona, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) on the gender!
His full comic and statement can be read here.
Also, not trying to derail, but not all aces are sex-repulsed. I’m a kinky ace! For the love of the gods don’t use me as a fucking shield for your puritanical morals and kinkphobia.
I saw a coworker and her gf kissing so I said "happy pride y'all :)" and she with so much enthusiasm said ARE YOU PRIDE TOO??
Do people realize they don’t have to go to pride? Like, there is absolutely no legal obligation for you to go to pride. If the thought of seeing a leather man or someone in a harness or a pup makes makes you so uncomfortable you want to weep, just don’t go. If you don’t think you’ll feel safe there, don’t go. Stay the fuck home. It’s okay to not go to pride. Doesn’t matter if you have sensory issues or trauma or whatever, it’s your fucking decision, dude. Stop arguing with people on the internet and think “hmm, maybe I shouldn’t go to a pride parade, maybe that is a situation I can’t handle” and then avoid it like a sane, rational, and mature adult.
Pride is loud. It’s often crowded. There are many, many, people there doing their own thing. You cannot control them. You cannot predict how they will act. If this bothers you, don’t go. I’m autistic. There are certain environments I cannot enter and instead of saying they need to shut down the club or turn the lights on, I just don’t go.
This! Pride is happening today in my town and right now we’re probably not going to go. It’s been so hot recently, and both myself and my partner are heat-intolerant in a way that makes our chronic pain worse. I’ve also been in withdrawal from a medication thanks to an insurance gap from aging out of my parents coverage last month and not having the spoons to apply for Medicaid til this week. The withdrawal has made me have digestive issues and today for whatever reason it’s been extra bad even while all the other withdrawal symptoms have faded. My partner is at work til mid-afternoon and will likely not have much energy left and we have to budget energy for things like making dinner later. So we’re not currently planning to go.
If we do, it’s going to only be because a friend asked me if I was going and wanted me to come by the booth she’s going to be working this afternoon. And I get so little irl socialization recently that I really do want to go and see them. But it just. Might not work out.
No one is obligated to go to pride. They’re not taking attendance of all the lgbtq+ people in town. You can stay home and celebrate pride month in your own way if that’s what’s best for you.
Not to mention how often pride events aren’t very accessible to disabled people. If it’s on grass, wheelchair users can’t go even if they want to. If there’s no medical tent to rest in or get help, a lot of people with chronic illnesses or chronic pain can’t go or can’t stay very long because it’s summer and hot and the water costs $12. If there’s a tent but it has limited capacity, some chronically ill people might be able to stay but not everyone. Pride parades and events aren’t the end-all-be-all of interacting with fellow lgbtq+ people.
I’ve been to my local pride parade one time before, in 2019. My abusive ex was in charge of volunteering and was on stage reminding people to get involved over the coming year and how important volunteers are to running pride events. They had a mic and the speakers were everywhere. I had a panic attack because I couldn’t escape the sound of their voice. I was there for maybe a half-hour and had a better time doing shots at a friends apartment after, while just being goofy dorks but proud of our identities. I think we watched a lgbtq+ movie but I don’t remember which one right now. You can celebrate without going to pride.
The best irl experiences I’ve had with other lgbtq+ people has been in smaller meetings at my local pride center, in the homes of people who help run the pride center, and just hanging out with my rainbow-mafia friends. Pride events aren’t everything and aren’t for everyone.
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