t'is so very true <3
Always worth a repost!
“LESBIANS ARE BEAUTIFUL” – “A DAY WITHOUT LESBIANS IS LIKE A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE,” Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco, California, June 1979. Photographer unknown, c/o @chicagotribune.
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In the late 1970s, as former beauty queen, singer, spokesperson, and archconservative Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign battled anti-discrimination ordinances across the country, the queer community unified around a common enemy.
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From 1977 to 1979, virtually every gathering of queer Americans (and many across the world) featured every kind of anti-Anita paraphernalia, including signs, banners, shirts, pins, speeches, songs, and chants.
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Here, Gay Freedom Day participants present a spin on the tagline Bryant made famous as spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.”
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[Please note: most sources incorrectly describe this image as one of a Chicago Pride Parade; it is, in fact, from San Francisco’s 1979 Gay Freedom Day Parade. We base the location on the streetcar tracks and the sign for Mason & Turk Streets (which intersect with Market Street) in the background. The 1979 parade was San Francisco’s first Gay Freedom Day Parade the route of which went from downtown to the Castro (as opposed to vice versa) and the marchers here are headed away from downtown; that fact, coupled with the Anita reference, gives us confidence in the 1979 date. As ever, we encourage those who are inclined to repost the picture with the correct information in order to correct the virtual record.] #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #LesbianVisibilityDay #Resist (at San Francisco, California)
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day ❤️
We asked LGBTQ+ folks to share the “senior quote” they think teens returning to school need to hear right now. Here are the results!
As I packed my bags for the Nike LGBT Sports Summit last month, I felt as though I was preparing for the “ball” of my dreams. iPad? Check… Running sneakers? Check… LGBTQ Pride? Double check! I could not believe I was headed to Nike Headquarters in Portland to represent Our Group Athletes, a national network that serves to empower and educate on behalf of LGBTQ student athletes and allies.
P.S.: if any of the above applies…our TikTok, Youtube, and Get Help page are pretty much made for you. ;)

are these the cutest traffic lights in the world? i mean, probably. they will be installed through August to signify Stockholm Pride.
“We want to show that we’re an LGBT-friendly city – and show that even in tough traffic! We stand for one Stockholm for all,” the city’s deputy mayor and head of Stockholm’s traffic division Daniel Helldén explained to The Local.

As a proud supporter of the LGBT Community, Uber is honored to partner with the It Gets Better Project in celebration of Pride month.
Together, Uber and It Gets Better will share messages of hope to LGBT youth across five west coast Uber cities — and we’re inviting you to be a part of the movement.
Want to get involved? Throughout the month of June, share your own story to remind LGBT youth that it really does get better. Each West Coast Uber city will be celebrating in its own unique way, so read below to learn more about local efforts!
See How Your City is Getting Involved:
Uber is committed to diversity and inclusion and IGB is thrilled to be partnering with an organization dedicated to sharing their message. We’re excited to celebrate Pride Month with you, and we hope you will join us as we ride with pride.
A touching, powerful article about the courage of LGBTQ folks living in the small, resistant town of Spencer, Indiana.
Though their Pride event may lack large corporate sponsors (or even the support of prominent local businesses), their steely resolve (very) slowly builds toward a community of acceptance. The Pride event G-rated, cheerful, and fun, with a wholesomeness impossible to object to.
“There is no silver bullet in the fight for equality. The incremental and unrelenting work it takes to organize and sustain a cohesive community is hard, but that work is certainly the best hope we have for building bridges to the sort of common understanding that defeats hate and intolerance.“
I love the insistence – and I think it’s an important notion to spread – that pride is permanent. It’s not just contained within one month out of the year.
On this crosswalk, LGBTQ advocate Sarah Rose (who garnered the support for this initiative) says, “It signifies that the LGBTQ community is part of Atlanta’s story. And I think it’s important to recognize that like any other part of our history.”
Our community has been a fixture throughout history, and will pulsate even more powerfully throughout the years to come.
The crosswalks together form a continuous circuit, an unbroken symbol of immortality.
It’s been a year, which means it’s now legal to make terrible puns about all this! They can’t arrest us all. Jokes aside, though, this is the cover of my new comic book, a collection of some of my favourite comics I made in the past year.
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