Pride Month, or the LGBTQ pride is the promotion for equality, self-affirmation and dignity for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as a social group. To celebrate this, it is termed as the pride Month. Pride is the acronym for Personal Right in Defense and Education. The organization was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1996 by Steve Ginsburg.
During LGBTQ Pride Month, we celebrate this community and the impact on local, national, and international history. Pride is celebrated each June in honor of the Stonewall Uprising, which took place in 1969 in Manhattan. Ever since Pride began as a single-day commemoration in 1970, marches and parades have been part of the event. From their origins as a memorial to their current incarnation as colorful celebrations, pride parades remember the past while serving as acts of resistance against those seeking to strip the LGBTQ community of the rights it has fought so hard to gain.
Pride is important as it continues to provide the LGBTQIA people with a community, safe space and a chance to celebrate who they are and who they love without shame. There are 69 countries that have law criminalizing homosexuality and the queer people in the countries.The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements. Also known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, the colours reflect the diversity of the LGBT community. The colours represent each meaning like hot pink for sex, Violet for Spirit, Turquoise for Magic or Art, Orange for healing, yellow for sunlight and Green for Nature. Apart from this, there are 23 types of LGBTQ Flags like Bisexual Pride Flag, Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag, Pansexual Pride Flag, Gender Fluid Pride Flag are few of the flags.
The transgender pride flag represents colours like pink and blue which is for both boys and girls. The white stripe represents “those who are intersex, transitioning, or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender.” Whereas the Lipstick Lesbian Flag features stripes in shades of pink and red, a white bar in the center, and a lipstick kiss symbol in the top left corner. It represents lesbians with a more feminine expression of their gender. Agender Pride Flag has white, black and green stripes. The black and white stripes represent an absence of gender, the gray represents semi-genderlessness, and the central green stripe represents nonbinary genders. The Pansexual Pride Flag symbolize pansexuality as either an attraction regardless of gender. The blue stripe represents an attraction to men, the pink stripe represents an attraction to women, and the yellow stripe represents an attraction to people of other genders. Intersex Pride Flag, the intersex people are born with variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that don’t fit the typical “male” or “female” definitions. The circle is unbroken and unornamented, symbolizing wholeness and completeness, and our potentialities,” the group states of the flag design. Demi Sexual Pride Flag, on the flag, black represents asexuality, grey represents asexuality and demi sexuality, white represents sexuality, and purple represents community. Demisexual, used to describe someone who feels sexual attraction to another person only after forming a close emotional bond with them.
Pride Month, is an important month/event all over the world. Pride events usually involve a series of marches and parades with performances, music, colourful dress and an abundance of rainbow flags. In the UK, June is traditionally Pride month.
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