01/06/2026
🏳️⚧️ PRIDE IS A PROTEST 🏳️🌈
Pride is a protest, but it looks like a celebration.
Historically, it has always been both.
Pride holds grief and joy simultaneously.
Grief for what is criminalised, pathologised, what is hidden, denied, lost, and at risk of equal rights being taken away, depending on what political party is in power and what country you live in.
Joy and celebration is the protest because it is the opposite of oppression.
Visibility.
Belonging.
Community.
Pleasure.
Joy.
Love.
These are not random themes.
They are some of the very things that LGBTQIA+ people have historically been denied or shamed or excluded from or told that we should hide, which is why joy matters.
Not because it erases grief, but because when people are told they should be ashamed, silent, invisible, or denied equal rights, or to even be alive and open about their identity, celebration is more than celebration, it is reclamation.
Joy is not separate from the protest, it is the protest.
Happy Pride 🌈
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